July Chgo Wheat closed 19 ¾ cents lower ($4.69 ¾), Sept 20 ¼ cents lower ($4.71 ¾) & Dec 19 ½ cents lower ($4.90 ½)
July KC Wheat closed 20 ¾ cents lower ($4.63), Sept 20 ¾ cents lower ($4.74) & Dec 19 ½ cents lower ($4.98 ¾)
Flat price wheat continues to be a follower; a follower of the general gloom and doom in the Ag sector. European prices continue to retreat from the highs they saw late last week. The renewed strength in the US Dollar also weighs on US prices as it keeps them from being competitive in the World export circles. Tomorrow is report day as the USDA will update US production, US supply-demand and World supply-demand. The US wheat carryin will rise by 20 million bu. based on the last June Quarterly Stocks figure. US production should rise given the increase in acres the USDA reported on June 29th. The World supply-demand could be a bit different given that a number of our export competitors are reporting lower crop sizes; higher production for the US vs. lower elsewhere.
Not much new happens with the interior wheat basis levels. Both varieties, SRW and HRW, continue to show a firm bias. The export market for SRW sags a bit while the export market for HRW stays steady to firm. Bear spreads work in both markets as the flat price selling dominates.
Flat price Chgo wheat moves down to a level not seen since February. Daily momentum indicators that have been struggling to stay friendly looking have now completely rolled over. The technical look now suggests probes of the Dec ’17 and Jan ’18 lows are not out of the question. The KC market has yet to take out its late June, early July lows but it looks like it wouldn’t take much for that to happen. Going forward it is my opinion that the US wheat market will continue to be a follower of what the rest of the Ag sector is doing.
Daily Support & Resistance for 07/12
Sept Chgo Wheat: $4.63 ($4.54) – $4.97
Sept KC Wheat: $4.66 ($4.56) – $4.97
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