Corn futures gave back some of last week’s late strength on Monday, with contracts down 2 to 3 cents in the nearbys. There were 64 deliveries issued against December corn on Friday night. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was back down today at $3.99.
This morning’s Export Inspections report showed a total of 1.421 MMT (55.95 mbu) of corn shipped in the week of 11/27. That was 49.79% above the same week last year but a drop of 16.18% from last week’s total. Japan was the largest buyer of 431,700 MT, with 330,150 MT shipped to Mexico and 187,948 MT to Colombia. The marketing year total is now 18.97 MMT (746.7 mbu) of corn shipped, which is now 70.69% above the same period last year.
