# Grain market week in review - May 10, 2019

> Grain futures fell sharply after new tweets from President Trump cast doubt on US-China trade talks and raised threats of tariff hikes. China holds 275 million bushels of unshipped soybean purchases, and planting delays and a storm affecting Mississippi River barge traffic were also in focus.

- Date: 2019-05-10 · published 2019-05-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region China · magnitude high
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/5736-grain-market-week-in-review-may-10-2019
- Commodities: [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Trade tension threatens China's soybean purchases and export demand, while barge disruptions raise logistics costs for grain movements.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bearish ▼
- CORN: bearish ▼
- BARGE: bullish ▲
- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOY | 2019-04-26 | [Grain market week in review - April 26, 2019](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10959-grain-market-week-in-review-april-26-2019.md) | -3.3% | -4.4% |
| SOY | 2019-12-10 | [Grain market review: Oilseeds \| 2019-12-10  \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12378-grain-market-review-oilseeds-2019-12-10-world-grain.md) | +2.8% | +4.6% |
| SOY | 2018-09-19 | [Grain Market Review: Oilseeds \| 2018-09-19  \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63011-grain-market-review-oilseeds-2018-09-19-world-grain.md) | +3.9% | +8.7% |
| SOY | 2025-09-26 | [Grain Market Review: Oilseeds \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22993-grain-market-review-oilseeds-world-grain.md) | +1.1% | +3.2% |
| SOY | 2021-05-11 | [Daily Market Wire 11 May 2021 - Grain Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7465-daily-market-wire-11-may-2021-grain-central.md) | -2.0% | -2.5% |
| CORN | 2021-05-11 | [Daily Market Wire 11 May 2021 - Grain Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7465-daily-market-wire-11-may-2021-grain-central.md) | -7.7% | -2.5% |
| CORN | 2018-06-01 | [Trade war rhetoric — This week in the grain markets - RealAgriculture](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64504-trade-war-rhetoric-this-week-in-the-grain-markets-realagriculture.md) | -2.6% | -8.6% |
| CORN | 2019-11-21 | [DDGS Weekly Market Report – November 21, 2019 - U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56171-ddgs-weekly-market-report-november-21-2019-u-s-grains-and-bioproducts-council.md) | -0.5% | +2.1% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/marketing/grain-market-week-in-review-may-10-2019

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