Corn Holds onto Friday Gains

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Austin Schroeder

Sat, February 21, 2026 at 7:21 AM GMT+9 1 min read

Corn futures were up 1 to 4 cents across the front months on Friday, as March was down 4 ¼ cents this week. Spillover support from gains in wheat was helping. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was up 1 3/4 cent to $3.94 1/4. With just a week left in the Crop Insurance price discovery, the average December corn close has been $4.60, down a dime from the same period last year.

Export Sales data continues to show strong export sales, with old crop corn sales at 1.47 MMT in the week of 2/12. That was down from last week, but still 1.1% above the same week last year. New crop sales were at 65,700 MT in that week. Japan was the top buyer of 381,500 MT, with 270,100 MT sold to Mexico and 127,300 MT sold to Taiwan.

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Commitment of Traders data from this afternoon showed a total of 20,795 contracts trimmed from the spec fund net long position in the week of February 17. That took the net short to 27,415 contracts.

A South Korean importer purchased a total of 132,000 MT in a tender overnight.

Mar 26 Corn  closed at $4.27 1/2, up 1 3/4 cents,

Nearby Cash  was $3.94 1/4, up 1 3/4 cents,

May 26 Corn  closed at $4.39 3/4, up 3 1/2 cents,

Jul 26 Corn  closed at $4.48 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents,

_ On the date of publication, Austin Schroeder did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. This article was originally published on Barchart.com _

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