Grain & Oilseed Mid-Session News Update

<div class=\"default-font-wrapper\" style=\"line-height: 1;font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Grain &amp; Oilseed Mid-Session News Update</span></p><br><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">QT News - Top News</span></p><ul><li><p id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Due to the New Year Holiday the weekly U.S.D.A. Export Sales Report will be released on Friday, January 3, 2024.</span></p></li><li><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Due to the National Day of Mourning for President Carter, the USDA&rsquo;s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has rescheduled the Weekly Slaughter data release from Jan. 9 to Jan. 10 at 3 p.m. ET. Other reports scheduled for release on Jan. 10 such as Crop Production and Grain Stocks reports will be published as scheduled</span></p></li><li><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">CME Group agricultural and interest rates markets will close at 12:15 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 9 in observance of former President Carter&#39;s funeral. &nbsp;All products trading on CME Globex will reopen at their regularly scheduled time on January 9 for a trade date of January 10.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">CORN</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">**EIA Fuel Ethanol Stocks change (w/e 12/27): +565,000 bbls to 23.639 mln bbls; pct change 0.00%</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">**EIA Fuel Ethanol Production change (w/e 12/27): +4,000 bbl/day to 1.111 mln bbl/day</span></p><br><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Argentina oilseed crusher industry group on Thursday estimated the country&#39;s agriculture export sector brought in $1.97 billion in December 2024, that&#39;s up +58% over the year earlier month. &nbsp;They also noted full year revenues in 2024 rose +27% from 2023.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><br></p><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">SOY</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Ahead of this afternoon&#39;s monthly USDA soybean crush report, analysts are forecasting 6.18 mln mt of soybeans crushed in November 2024, if realized that would be off -4.5% from the October 6.47 mln. &nbsp;In the year ago November, the crush was 6.00 mln mt. &nbsp;Analysts are forecasting end of November soyoil stockpiles at 1.42 bln lbs, that compares with the end of October 1.485 bln lbs. &nbsp;End of November 2023 soyoil stocks were 1.599 bln lbs. &nbsp;The data will be released at 2:00 pm CT.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Indonesian palm oil traders are said to be in limbo after Indonesia&#39;s government failed to publish details for new regulations regarding higher 40% mandatory biodiesel blending that was to go into effect January 1, 2025.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Argentina oilseed crusher industry group on Thursday estimated the country&#39;s agriculture export sector brought in $1.97 billion in December 2024, that&#39;s up +58% over the year earlier month. &nbsp;They also noted full year revenues in 2024 rose +27% from 2023.</span></p><br><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">WHEAT</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Egypt&#39;s Mostakbal Misr, the new state grain buyer, has reportedly received its first cargo of imported Wheat on Dec 30th, according to shipping data. &nbsp;The cargo was 28,000 mt, delivered to the port of Alexandria</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">-- Argentina oilseed crusher industry group on Thursday estimated the country&#39;s agriculture export sector brought in $1.97 billion in December 2024, that&#39;s up +58% over the year earlier month. &nbsp;They also noted full year revenues in 2024 rose +27% from 2023.</span></p><br></div>