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Ahead of the Open | August 3, 2021 Corn, soybeans lower on wetter Midwest outlook, wheat pulls back after rally near three-month highs.

Will Sen. Graham and perhaps other senators getting Covid impact infrastructure vote?

Cordonnier sticks with U.S. yield pegs, but anxious about dry northwest Corn Belt. Frost shrinks Brazil’s winter wheat crop. Egypt to raise subsidized bread prices. ASF spreading across the Dominican Republic.

On the other hand, soybean and spring wheat ratings unexpectedly improved. Find more highlights of USDA’s Crop Progress and Condition report.

This was the first weekly uptick in the spring wheat CCI of the growing season.

After the Bell | August 2, 2021 Wheat futures near three-month highs after cut to Russia harvest forecast, corn, soybeans also climb.

The amount of corn inspected for export handily topped expectations and the tally nearly doubled the year-ago figure. In addition, last week’s number was also revised nearly 150,000 MT higher.

Corn and wheat futures are higher and soybeans are mixed. Cattle and hog futures are higher to start the week.

In Kenya, farmers can’t spend much time thinking about the UN’s sustainable development goals, let alone striving to meet them, when we don’t have a good sense of whether it will rain next week.