By Commodity News Service Canada
Aug. 2 (CNS Canada) – Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade were up slightly for the September contract at US$3.65, a climb of 2.5 cents U.S. from the start of today’s trading. The December contract ended the day at US$3.79, also up 2.5 cents U.S., and the March contract settled at US$3.91, up 2.5 cents U.S. Financial services company Intl FCStone released figures pegging U.S. corn production at 13.590 billion bushels, with an average yield of 162.8 bu./acre. That’s lower than U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates of 170 bu./acre. Price rallies were slowed by reports of more moderate weather for key corn-growing areas.
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Kazakhstan’s winter barley yield forecast was increased to 0.92 million tonnes per acre, a 6.2 per cent increase from June and 4.4 per cent above the five-year average. The new statistics were released by the European Monitoring Agricultural Resources unit. The forecast for spring barley was raised 17 per cent from June to 0.62 million tonnes per acre, which is 9.3 per cent lower than the five-year average.
