{"id":11381,"date":"2025-06-01T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/06\/01\/corn-heads-lower-into-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T01:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:47:00","slug":"corn-heads-lower-into-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/06\/01\/corn-heads-lower-into-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Heads Lower into the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"layout__region nsdq-l-grid__item syndicated-article-body\">\n<section class=\"jupiter22-c-article-body\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"body__content\">\n<p>The corn market was under pressure on Friday as contracts were 2 to 4 cents in the red. July closed the week, giving all the previous gains back, down 15 \u00bd cents, as December lost 12 \u00bc cents. The front month CmdtyView national average\u00a0Cash Corn price was down 1 1\/2 cents at $4.20 3\/4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>USDA reported a private export sale this morning, with 210,560 MT sold to unknown destinations, with 145,560 MT for 2024\/25 shipment and 65,000 MT for 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-0kQ\"  class=\"btf-bodymidpagetwothirdswidth-1\">          <script type=\"text\/javascript\">         googletag.cmd.push(function() {             \/\/ Check if ID matches ID in the window.adsList array before calling googletag.display             function isAdInAdsList(id) {             for (var i = 0; i < window.adsList.length; i++) {                 if (window.adsList[i].id === id) {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         }         if (isAdInAdsList('js-dfp-tag-0kQ')) {             googletag.display('js-dfp-tag-0kQ');         }         });     <\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>     <span>Don\u2019t Miss a Day: <\/span> From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart\u2019s best-in-class commodity analysis.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Export Sales data from this morning showed 916,712 MT in 2024\/25 business, in the middle of traders\u2019 estimates of 0.75 to 1.4 MMT in the week of May 22. That was a 7-week low but still 13.2% above last year. Japan was the largest buyer of 214,400 MR, with Mexico in for 201,500 MT and 157,900 MT sol to Colombia. New crop sales were 31,000 MT, on the lower side of the 25,000 to 400,000 MT expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon\u2019s Commitment of Traders report from CFTC showed the managed money net short position in corn futures and options backing off by 2,450 contracts to 100,760 contracts as of May 27<sup>th<\/sup>. The commercial net short position was cut by 22,231 contracts to 150,061 contracts as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s corn crop estimate from Safras & Mercado was raised by 3.89 MMT to 139.03 MMT on a 3.82 MMT increase to their second crop number. USDA is at 130 MMT.<\/p>\n<p><u>Jul 25 Corn<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0closed at $4.44, down 3 cents,<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-P24\"  class=\"btf-bodymidpagetwothirdswidth-2\">          <script type=\"text\/javascript\">         googletag.cmd.push(function() {             \/\/ Check if ID matches ID in the window.adsList array before calling googletag.display             function isAdInAdsList(id) {             for (var i = 0; i < window.adsList.length; i++) {                 if (window.adsList[i].id === id) {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         }         if (isAdInAdsList('js-dfp-tag-P24')) {             googletag.display('js-dfp-tag-P24');         }         });     <\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><u>Nearby Cash<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0was $4.20 3\/4, down 1 1\/2 cents,<\/p>\n<p><u>Sep 25 Corn<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0closed at $4.23 1\/4, down 4 cents,<\/p>\n<p><u>Dec 25 Corn<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0closed at $4.38 1\/2, down 2 3\/4 cents,<\/p>\n<p><u>New Crop Cash<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0was $3.95 7\/8, down 4 1\/2 cents,<\/p>\n<p class=\"body__disclaimer\">     On the date of publication,      Austin Schroeder              did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. 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July closed the week, giving all the previous gains back, down 15 \u00bd cents, as December lost 12 \u00bc cents. The front month CmdtyView national average\u00a0Cash Corn price was down 1 1\/2 cents at $4.20 3\/4.\u00a0 USDA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}