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July Wheat finished up 37 1/2 at 695 1/4, 2 1/4 off the high and 42 3/4 up from the low. December
Wheat closed up 31 1/4 at 720. This was 36 1/2 up from the low and 5 1/4 off the high. July wheat
capped off a strong up week with a surge higher on the More >

  Wheat futures surged today, finishing 26 to 37 cents higher in Chicago, 29 to 33 cents
higher in Kansas City and mostly 19 to 24 cents higher in Minneapolis….

Effective this Sunday, May 20 (trade date Monday, May 21), the electronic trading hours on CME
Globex for all CBOT Commodity, KCBT, and MGEX Grain and Oilseed futures and options will be
expanded to the following:Sunday to Friday: 17:00 CT to 14:00 Central Time (CT)Additional details
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Malaysian palm oil futures ended almost flat after hitting a near 5-month low, as lingering worries
over Greece’s potential exit from the euro zone dampened investors’ risk appetite….

July wheat opened 10 1/4 cents higher on the session at 668 and established an early range of 667
to 686 3/4. The late call was just 3-5 cents higher so the market found strong buying again early
in the session today to drive the market sharply higher on the day into the…

Russia may cut its 2012/13 grain crop forecast in May from the current 94 million tonnes due to
spring drought, a government source told Reuters on Thursday.  “It is clear now that the
forecast should be decreased, but it is too early to do it now….

The promise of a bumper U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is eroding by the hour as scorching
temperatures and high winds in key growing areas of the U.S. Plains sap soils of needed moisture,
wheat experts said on Thursday….

Russia may export up to one million tonnes of grain by July in addition to 25 million tonnes
already exported in 2011/12 season, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Deputy Agriculture
Minister Ilya Shestakov as saying on Thursday….

Dry weather in grain belts on both sides of Australia, one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters,
is delaying planting and threatening to hurt crop yields of the grain in 2012/13, representatives
of farming groups said on Thursday….

Argentina cut its 2011/12 soy forecast to 41.5 million tonnes from 42.9 million last month and
predicted 2012/13 wheat area would shrink nearly 14 percent from last season, the government said
on Thursday….