Sharply increased yield estimates for corn in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Aug. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates surprised markets. The season’s first survey-based corn yield ...

There was a lot of anticipation leading up to the Aug. 12 USDA Crop Report, but a very "bearish" report resulted in a decline of nearly 50-cents per bushel in the December corn futures price from Aug.

USDA shocks the market with higher corn and soybean yield, production and ending stocks. SA numbers were not supportive either. Lower winter wheat acreage was friendly but wheat follows corn and beans ...