# What Drove the Recovery Rally in Grains and Cattle?

> Grain and livestock markets ended mostly higher on Monday after commodity-wide selling Friday. Fund buying and weather premium lifted corn, soybeans and meal on hot, dry 15-day forecasts for Argentina and Southern Brazil, while a weaker dollar on a tariff report supported grains before Trump refuted it.

- Date: 2025-01-06 · published 2025-01-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Argentina · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/11603-what-drove-the-recovery-rally-in-grains-and-cattle
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md)

## Why it matters

Dry Argentine and southern Brazilian weather threatens soybean and corn meal supplies, supporting feed ingredient prices, while analysts see resistance levels and USDA data later in the week as key to the next move.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bullish ▲
- SOY: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲

## Linked price moves

| Commodity | Date | Window | Change % | z-score | Why linked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2025-01-06 | 1 | +2.0% | 3.1 | Recovery rally on fund buying and weather premium from hot, dry Argentina/Southern Brazil forecasts plus a weaker dollar lifted corn on Monday. |

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2023-05-29 | [Corn, Soybeans and Wheat in the Grips of Drought - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13276-corn-soybeans-and-wheat-in-the-grips-of-drought-agweb.md) | -4.6% | -4.0% |
| CORN | 2022-06-29 | [What’s driving the volatile grain market? Grain market daily \| AHDB](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40981-what-s-driving-the-volatile-grain-market-grain-market-daily-ahdb.md) | +1.2% | -16.3% |
| CORN | 2023-06-22 | [Central US drought intensifies, threatening grains and soy \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/9769-central-us-drought-intensifies-threatening-grains-and-soy-reuters.md) | -8.7% | -14.9% |
| CORN | 2024-04-22 | [U.S. grains: Wheat futures rally as weather risks rattle markets - AgCanada](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12140-u-s-grains-wheat-futures-rally-as-weather-risks-rattle-markets-agcanada.md) | -0.6% | +2.1% |
| CORN | 2020-08-15 | [Bearish August WASDE and a small rally — This week in the grain markets - RealAgriculture](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10687-bearish-august-wasde-and-a-small-rally-this-week-in-the-grain-markets.md) | +1.3% | +9.3% |
| SOY | 2023-05-29 | [Corn, Soybeans and Wheat in the Grips of Drought - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13276-corn-soybeans-and-wheat-in-the-grips-of-drought-agweb.md) | +1.0% | +11.8% |
| SOY | 2022-06-29 | [What’s driving the volatile grain market? Grain market daily \| AHDB](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40981-what-s-driving-the-volatile-grain-market-grain-market-daily-ahdb.md) | -5.0% | -5.1% |
| SOY | 2023-06-22 | [Central US drought intensifies, threatening grains and soy \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/9769-central-us-drought-intensifies-threatening-grains-and-soy-reuters.md) | -4.2% | -1.3% |

## Sources

- agweb.com: https://www.agweb.com/markets/market-analysis/what-drove-recovery-rally-grains-and-cattle

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