
Basis bids for soybeans and corn shipped by barge to Gulf terminals weakened as farmer deliveries outpaced exporter demand. Falling river levels on the Mississippi at St. Louis and Memphis and drought in the Ohio Valley were flagged as risks to barge movement, while weekly USDA export sales of new-crop corn and soybeans were strong.
Weaker Gulf basis lowers farmer cash prices, while river-level warnings could lift barge freight costs during harvest, adding to the transport cost of moving grain.
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