
The National Corn Growers Association asked Congress and the Trump administration to help find demand for a 16.7 billion bushel US corn crop. Farmers face poor profitability despite record yields.
The article is built around a video segment on USDA's record crop forecast.
Lack of new demand for a record crop keeps corn prices under pressure and encourages policy support for export and domestic use. The call for demand measures signals ongoing surplus concerns.
After 310 past bearish policy events, CORN moved a median +0.3% over 5 sessions (54% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.9%), and +0.6% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.