Can The Grain Market Rally Continue?

Outside of the typical financial markets traders may track, the agricultural markets have had an interesting start to 2025. Looking at the March Corn contract, traders saw significant selling pressure in 2024 and Corn has struggled to climb back over the 5.00/bushel mark. Since the August 2024 lows, Corn has seen a slow grind higher with some significant chop back and forth and crossed back over the 200-day moving average, which has kept a lid on prices for the market going back to 2023.

When looking at agricultural products such as corn or soybeans, there are many different catalysts that can shift the market in one direction or another. Traders can look at seasonality of the crop, weather conditions in the United States and South America that may impact the future supply of the crop, or many other outside factors that may affect the price. The CME offers Corn and Soybean futures contracts represented as 5,000 bushels in the full sized contracts, and also a mini contract representing 1,000 bushels of the desired crop, again giving traders their choice of size.

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