CBOT wheat down on profit-taking but notches weekly gain
CHICAGO, Sept 6 (Reuters) -Chicago Board of Trade benchmark wheat futures Wv1 slipped as funds sought profits following a rally earlier in the week but still gained from the previous week.
CBOT's December soft red winter wheat WZ24 settled down 7-3/4 cents to $5.67 per bushel but settled up 2.8% for the week.
K.C. December hard red winter wheat KWZ24 ended down 11-1/4 cents to $5.77-1/2 per bushel.
MGEX December spring wheat MWEZ24 settled down 12 cents to $6.13-3/4 per bushel.
The previous rally was driven by speculators unwinding some of their hefty short positions.
Russia,the world's biggest wheat exporter, introduced a state of emergency for the farm sector in the Tomsk region of Siberia because of weather damage to the harvest, the region's governor said.
In Ukraine, a major wheat and corn producer, grain exports in the 2024/25 July-June season reached 7.5 million metric tons as of Sept. 6, up from 4.9 million tons by the same date of the previous season. The volume included 4 million tons of wheat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported weekly U.S. wheat export sales for 2024/25 were 340,000 metric tons, compared to analysts' estimates for 300,000-600,000 tons.
Wheat prices have been supported by reports of poor harvests in Europe, notably in the largest producer France, set to yield the smallest volume in more than 40 years while also producing mixed grain quality.
Reporting by Heather Schlitz; Editing by Sandra Maler
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