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Corn and soybeans each rose 2.2 percent after forecasts indicated that rain may be scattered and light over regions filled with fields of withering crops. The prices changed course several times this week as predictions for rain shifted.
Weather forecasts have taken on more importance because corn and soybeans have been damaged by searing heat and a devastating drought that is dominating much of the country.
It’s a critical time in the growing season so the longer the crops go without rain, the more irreversible damage is likely to occur. That could leave inventories of corn and soybeans at very low levels after the harvests.
The quality of the corn crop primarily east of the Mississippi River has deteriorated sharply, said Sterling J. Smith, vice president at Citibank Institutional Client Group.
Conditions continue to worsen for soybeans, so significant moisture needs to fall by the second week of August to help the crop, Smith said. “They’re just up against the clock and that clock is ticking,” he said.
Corn for December delivery rose 17 cents to finish at $7.9325 per bushel, November soybeans gained 34.25 cents to $16.0175 per bushel and September wheat rose 14 cents to $8.98 per bushel.
In other news, most commodity prices climbed on hopes that European leaders will take definitive action to repair the region’s fragile economy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande vowed in a joint statement issued Friday to protect the 17-nation currency bloc. The statement came a day after a similar pledge from the head of the European Central Bank.
Europe’s faltering economy has hurt businesses in other countries that sell products in the region. Economic growth also has slowed in the U.S. and China. Slower growth cuts into demand for a broad range of raw materials, including copper, platinum, palladium, oil and agricultural crops.
Gold for August delivery rose $2.90 to finish at $1,618 per ounce, September silver increased 5.2 cents to $27.498 per ounce and September copper gained 3.25 cents to $3.426 per pound. October platinum increased $2.60 to $1,408.20 per ounce and September palladium gained $1.95 to $571.85 per ounce.
Benchmark oil rose 74 cents to end at $90.13 per barrel in New York. Heating oil gained 2.10 cents to $2.8895 per gallon and wholesale gasoline increased 7.4 cents to $2.8878 per gallon. Natural gas fell 9.5 cents to $3.01 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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