Corn Slips into the Weekend

Corn futures held onto the losses across the front months on Friday, as contracts were fractionally to a penny lower. December was down 4 ¾ cents this week as the contract’s options expired today. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down a penny at $3.87 1/4. USDA’s delayed Grain Crushing report showed a total of 463.44 million bushels of corn used in ethanol production during August. That was a 1.2% increase from July but down 3.36% from the year prior. More News from Barchart CFTC data ...