
Analysts estimate China's 2017 corn crop at 7.7 to 8.1 billion bushels, below the official 8.35 billion and USDA's 8.46 billion. Surveys suggest Chinese farmers cut corn acreage, which could push 2017-18 ending stocks to the smallest since 2011-12.
A smaller Chinese corn crop and tighter stocks could require more corn and DDGS imports, supporting US and global corn export prices.
After 1,465 past bullish weather events, Corn moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (54% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.9%), and +0.9% 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.