Corn Prices Rise After Hitting Support Following Post-July Decline

 | Oct 01, 2015 09:09AM ET

Waiting for Grain Stocks report


US Department of Agriculture publishes official grain stocks quarterly estimates on Wednesday. The report is expected to boost corn price volatility. Will the price of corn continue rising following the report? It will provide estimates for stocks as of September 1, end of the 2014-15 marketing year for corn and soybeans. There are expectations that corn inventory figure may be revised upward from current estimate of 1.732bn bushels by about 20 million bushels , which is the shortfall of actual exports from officially expected exports of 1.875 billion bushels in 2014-2015. Investors also are trying to estimate the impact of poor corn yield reports from eastern Corn Belt together with strong crop yield reports from further west. They point to the possibility that the update may repeat the pattern of pervious lower-than-expected quarterly stock reports. The range of estimates varies from 1.652bn bushels to 1.852bn bushels. A significant adjustment to previous estimate may boost corn price volatility.