Alan Brugler Barchart Thu Jun 27, 7:23AM CDT

Corn prices are trading with fractional to 1 cent gains on your Thursday morning. Futures slid lower into the Wednesday close, with several contracts at new lows for the year. Futures were 3 to 6 ½ cents lower across the board. Wet forecasts for much of the Corn Belt continue to do the bulls no favors. 

The weekly EIA report showed 1.043 million barrels per day of ethanol was produced during the week of 6/21. That was a 14,000 bpd drop on the week. Stocks saw a draw of 194,000 barrels from the previous Friday to 23.423 million barrels.

With the Export Sales report on Thursday, the trade range of estimates is for old crop corn bookings of 0.4 to 1.1 MMT in the week that ended on June 20. New crop sales are seen in a range of 0 to 200,000 MT.

The June Acreage report from USDA will be out on Friday, with the average trade estimate calling for a 317,000 acre increase to corn at 93.353 million acres. The trade range of public estimates is 89 to 91.3 million acres. Grain Stock data released on Friday is expected to show 4.873 bbu of corn stocks as of June 1, which is 770 mbu above a year ago. The range of guesses is a wide 338 mbu, from 4.675 to 5.013 bbu.

Jul 24 Corn  closed at $4.20, down 5 1/2 cents, currently up ¼ cents

Nearby Cash  was $4.07 5/8, down 5 1/4 cents,

Sep 24 Corn  closed at $4.25 1/2, down 6 1/4 cents, currently up ½ cents

Dec 24 Corn  closed at $4.36 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents, currently up ¼ cents

New Crop Cash  was $4.02 3/8, down 6 cents,
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