Corn futures are trading with 4 to 5 ½ cent gains across most contracts at Monday’s midday. The CmdtyView national average new crop Cash Corn price is down 5 cents at $3.71 3/4.
USDA reported a private export sale of 225,000 MT of corn to Mexico this morning all for 2025/26. Another 229,000 was sold to unknown destinations, with 35,000 MT for 2024/25 and 194,000 MT for 2025/26.
USDA tallied corn export shipments at 1.522 MMT (59.93 mbu) during the week ending on July 24. That was up 54.55% from last week and 42.16% above the same week last year. Of that total, 610,316 MT was headed to Japan, with 460,381 MT on its way to Mexico. Marketing year exports have totaled 60.34 MMT (2.376 bbu), which is 29.25% above the same period last year.
CFTC data from Friday afternoon showed a total of 2,610 contracts added back to the net short in the managed money position as of July 22 to 177,365 contracts.
Over the weekend, President Milei of Argentina announced a reduction in the export tax for corn back to 9.5%, from 12%. AgRural estimates the Brazilian second corn crop at 68% harvested as of Thursday, shy of the 91% complete from the same week last year.
Sep 25 Corn is at $3.94, down 5 1/2 cents,
Nearby Cash is at $3.78 1/4, down 5 3/4 cents,
Dec 25 Corn is at $4.14 1/2, down 4 1/2 cents,
Mar 26 Corn is at $4.31 3/4, down 4 3/4 cents,
New Crop Cash is at $3.71 3/4, down 5 cents,
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