The variability of the US corn crop, and declining crop condition ratings for US corn, triggered technical trade at Chicago, allowing the punters to take advantage of some fundamental news and push the Dec corn contract to 523.5c/bu, up...

Chicago corn, wheat and soybean futures rallied sharply last night. Corn is said to be the major influence here, it has the best underlying fundamentals but wheat fundamentals, well, will we call it political fundamentals, could not be ignored....