The wheat complex was lower across the winter wheat contracts on Friday, with Spring wheat holding up. Chicago SRW futures were steady to 3 ½ cents lower on the day, with May up 17 cents this week. KC HRW futures were down 5 ¼ to 10 cents on the session, though May still held up 22 ¼ cents for the week. MPLS spring wheat was 1 ½ to 4 ½ cents higher on Friday, with the weekly gain at 22 ¾ cents. Forecasts from NOAA’s 7 day QPF shifted some precip to parts of western KS and parts of OK/TX.
Managed money in CBT wheat futures and options added 3,451 contracts back to their net short position in the week of 4/21, taking it to 10,717 contracts. In KC wheat, they added 11,085 contracts to their net long position at 28,009 as of Tuesday.
Weekly Export Sales from Thursday has total export commitments at 24.67 MMT, which is 15% above the same time last year. That is 101% of the USDA export projection and near the 102% 5-year average.
IKAR estimates the Russian wheat crop at 90 MMT, a 1 MMT drop from their previous number. The French soft wheat crop was estimated at 83% Good/Excellent according to FranceArgiMer, a drop or 1 percentage point from the previous week. Saudi Arabia also issued a tender to buy 710,000 MT of wheat, with a deadline set for Friday.
May 26 CBOT Wheat closed at $6.08 1/4, down 2 1/2 cents,
Jul 26 CBOT Wheat closed at $6.16 3/4, down 3 1/2 cents,
May 26 KCBT Wheat closed at $6.59, down 7 3/4 cents,
Jul 26 KCBT Wheat closed at $6.69 3/4, down 9 1/2 cents,
May 26 MIAX Wheat closed at $6.76, up 1 1/2 cents,
Jul 26 MIAX Wheat closed at $6.93 1/4, up 1 3/4 cents,
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