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Corn: Basis firmed 4 cents on the week — commercial demand is absorbing available supply. Producers with unpriced bushels are in a favorable window. Watch the next WASDE for any revision to the ending stocks estimate.
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The June 30 Grain Stocks report forced a 150-million-bushel upward revision to old-crop feed and residual use, draining beginning stocks and dropping new-crop corn carryout to 1.790 billion bushels. Wheat fell to 722 million — the lowest U.S. production since 1970/71 — but still printed above trade expectations.
Corn and soybeans were rolled forward untouched. Wheat carried the entire signal: an 18-million-bushel production cut on lower Hard Red Winter yields dropped all-wheat carryout to 744 million bushels, 20 percent below last year.
USDA's first look at 2026/27 delivered the sharpest downside surprise of the year in wheat — 762 million bushels, 79 million under consensus, on a Hard Red Winter production forecast down 25 percent. Soybeans came in 43 million bushels under consensus on aggressive crush and export assumptions.
USDA formally acknowledged tariff-driven soybean export destruction with a 35-million-bushel export cut, offset by higher domestic crush demand. Corn held flat despite record March 1 stocks. Wheat carryout raised to 938 million bushels on a minor use reduction.
USDA declined to adjust export forecasts in corn or soybeans despite divergent signals from the physical market — corn commitments running 31% above year-ago pace, soybean sales running 18% behind.
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