Turner’s Take Podcast | Prospective Plantings Outlook

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This week we go over our thoughts on the Prospective Plantings report next week and what it could mean for corn and soybean prices. We don’t know what the report will say but we are expecting a lot of volatility if the numbers do not come in as expected.  Make sure you take a listen to this week’s Turner’s Take Podcast!

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Prospective Plantings & Quarterly Stocks

Below are the estimates for next week’s Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Stocks report.  A few things jump out at me when looking at the tables below

• 93mm acres corn and 90mm acres soybeans would be a new Corn+Soybean combined acreage total.  Given current prices I think these expectations are warranted
• 93mm acres of corn and a trend line yield keeps corn in the $4s and $5s.  Only a significant weather scare could send old crop to $6 this summer.
• 90mm acres of soybeans is TIGHT.  With a trend line yield we use as much as we produce. Old crop ending stocks are predicted to be 120mm bu.  At 90mm acres and a 50.5 bpa my estimates keeps new crop ending stocks at 120mm bu. No changes to ending stocks year-over-year
• Corn March 1 stocks estimates are predicted be less than 200mm below last year.  In years past we have seen some big misses on the Quarterly Stocks report and it usually has to do with getting the feed number wrong.
• Soybean stocks are going to be much tighter this year than last year at this point in the calendar.  Soybeans are very tight.

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Corn

Below are my supply and demand tables for a few different scenarios. For old crop I assume the USDA keeps old crop exports at 2.6 billion.  I know many of you think exports could be 200mm to 400mm higher due to Chinese corn demand. I understand the argument but the USDA seems to think the increased buying from China is pushing traditional US corn customers to Ukraine or South America.  The opposite happened with soybeans when China moved their business to Brazil and Argentina. The US picked up a lot of export business that used to go to S. America but was pushed out by China.

The middle blue column has or estimates with the industry acreage estimates (93mm) and a trend line yield of 179.5.  Stocks are 1.785 billion and that is not tight. Those stock number are adequate and implies new crop eventually trades back down to $4 later this summer when the crop is made.

Keep in mind that a bearish scenario of 94mm acres and a 181.5 yield puts ending stocks back to 2.0 billion and 14% stock/usage ratio.  Historically corn trades between $3.60 and $4.30 at those stocks levels.  If we are closer to 92mm and a 177.5 bpa ending stocks are 1.4 billion, stock to usage is just under 10%, and corn would be expected to trade in the low to high $4s across the board.

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Soybeans

One look at the table below and you’ll see how tight soybeans could get next year.  What amazes me is how big the price range can be by just adding/subtracing 1mm acres and 2.5 bpa from expectations.  Adding 1mm acres and 1 bpa sends stocks to 260 next year. That is still tight but old crop probably trades around $11 and $12 in that scenario. If we have a 53 yield ending stocks could be north of 400mm bu and soybeans go back to a $9 to $12 trading range.

On the flip side we could be much higher at lightning speed if acres are 1 million less at 89mm and we lose even just 1bpa. Ending stocks would be negative in that situation and to get back to the minimum pipeline exports need to come down 50mm and exports need to come down 50mm.  If soybean bpa dropped 2.5 bu to 48 we probably make all time highs this summer.  The price ranges in soybeans this spring and summer have the potential to be extreme.

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