CBOT corn ends modestly higher, consolidating above recent lows
CHICAGO, July 17 (Reuters) -Chicago Board of Trade corn futures closed higher on Wednesday, consolidating above near-four-year lows setin recent weeks, while mostly favorable U.S. crop weather hung over the market, capping rallies, traders said.
CBOT September corn CU24 settled up 2-1/4 cents at $3.98 per bushel and most-active December CZ24 corn ended up 3 cents at $4.11-3/4.
A weaker dollar .DXY lent support by making U.S. grains more competitive globally.
Ahead of Thursday's weekly export sales report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traders expect the government to report export sales of U.S. old-crop corn in the week ended July 11 at 500,000 to 800,000 metric tons. Weekly sales of new-crop corn were estimated at 25,000 to 400,000 tons.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said weekly production of corn-based ethanol rose in the latest week to 1.106 million barrels per day, the most since December, while stockpiles fell to 23.160 million barrels. EIA/S
U.S. crop weather was generally beneficial, bolstering expectations of large U.S. harvests. "The month of July as a whole is expected to end up wetter than normal across most of the Corn Belt ... which will be quite favorable for development of corn and soybeans," satellite technology company Maxar said in a daily weather note.
Nearly 2 million hectares of maize and sunseed crops have been affected by drought in Romania so far this year, causing significant damage, the country's agriculture minister said.
Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; Editing by Richard Chang
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