Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed higher Wednesday for a second straight session, lifted by technical buying including short-covering, and spillover strength from soybeans and corn, traders said.
CBOT March wheat settled up 13 cents at $4.33-3/4 per bushel. Buy-stops noted as the contract pushed above Tuesday's high of $4.21-1/4 and its 20-day moving average of $4.25, traders said. K.C. March hard red winter wheat ended up 11 cents at $4.40-1/2 a bushel and MGEX March spring wheat rose 7-1/4 cents at $5.55-3/4. Ahead of the US Department of Agriculture's weekly export sales report on Thursday, analysts expected the government to show wheat sales at 250,000 to 450,000 tonnes. Russian winter grains remain unaffected by winter weather so far this season and crop yields could be quite high in 2017, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said. The CME Group is considering introducing variable storage rates for its K.C. hard red winter wheat futures contract to allay concerns related to cash-futures price convergence, according to a survey notice on the exchange's website.
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