Corn Firms into the Wednesday Close

Partially husked corn - by Couleur via Pixabay

Austin Schroeder

Thu, February 19, 2026 at 8:13 AM GMT+9 1 min read

Corn futures managed to hold onto some strength on Wednesday, as contracts closed fractionally to a penny higher. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was up ½ cent to $3.94 1/2.

USDA’s armchair estimate for the US corn balance sheet will be released at Thursday’s Ag Outlook Forum. Ahead of the release, a Bloomberg survey of analysts is calling for corn acreage to drop 3.8 million acres from last year to 95 million acres. Corn production is estimated to total 15.936 bbu, which would be a drop of 1.085 bbu from last year’s total.

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EIA data will be released on Thursday morning, pushed back due to the Monday holiday.

Brazilian corn exports for February are expected to total 1.12 MMT according to ANEC, a slight increase from their estimate last week.

Mar 26 Corn  closed at $4.27, up 3/4 cent,

Nearby Cash  was $3.94 1/2, up 1/2 cent,

May 26 Corn  closed at $4.36 3/4, up 1 cent,

Jul 26 Corn  closed at $4.44 3/4, up 1/2 cent,

_ 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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