CBOT corn ends up, rallying late despite USDA's big yield forecast
CHICAGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) -Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended higher on Thursday, rebounding from a drop to near two-week lows after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) raised its estimate of the U.S. corn crop, traders said.
CBOT December corn CZ24 settled up 1-1/4 cents at $4.06 per bushel, rallying after a dip to $3.97, the contract's lowest since Aug. 30.
Futures turned higher late in the session in what appeared to be technical moves, brokers said.
The USDA in a monthly supply/demand report raised its estimate of the U.S. 2024 corn yield to a record-high 183.6 bushels per acre (bpa), from 183.1 last month. Analysts surveyed by Reuters on average had expected a slight cut after a Midwest dry spell last month stressed crops.
The USDA forecast corn production at 15.186 billion bushels, up from 15.147 billion in August and the second biggest in history.
However, the government lowered its forecasts of U.S. and global corn inventories at the end of the 2024/25 marketing year.
In its weekly export sales report, the USDA reported U.S. corn sales in the week ended Sept. 5 at 666,500 metric tons, below a range of trade expectations for 700,000 to 1,600,000 tons. EXP/CORN
Under its daily reporting rules, the USDA confirmed private sales of 118,626 metric tons of U.S. corn to undisclosed destinations.
In Ukraine, producers expect the 2024 corn harvest to fall more significantly than agriculture ministry forecasts, the deputy head of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council farm producers union said.
Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; editing by Jonathan Oatis
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