The Daily Board — July 30, 2026
Today's close, same-day brief.
Gold and silver ripped higher as the dollar sagged after the Fed's rate hold, wheat firmed across all three boards, and crude gave back a chunk of yesterday's Iran-driven spike.
The Board
Grains & Oilseeds
🌽 Corn · Dec — 468½ · −3¼ · −0.69% 🔴⬇️
🫘 Beans · Nov — 1188¾ · −4 · −0.34% 🔴⬇️
🥣 Meal · Dec — 322.80 · −0.70 · −0.22% 🔴⬇️
🛢️ Oil · Dec — 67.29 · −0.33 · −0.49% 🔴⬇️
🌾 SRW · Sep — 663½ · +2¾ · +0.42% 🟢⬆️
🌾 HRW · Sep — 730¾ · +5¼ · +0.72% 🟢⬆️
🌾 HRS · Sep — 7.1150 · +0.0650 · +0.92% 🟢⬆️
🌰 Oats · Dec — 331¾ · +4¾ · +1.45% 🟢⬆️
Prairie Crops
🥬 Canola · Nov — C$768.60 · −C$3.00 · −0.39% 🔴⬇️
🐮 Barley · wkly — C$5.44–6.77/bu · unch. (wk of Jul 22) ➖
Energy
🛢️ WTI · Sep — 83.59† · −0.87 · −1.03% 🔴⬇️
🔥 NatGas · Sep — 2.758 · +0.036 · +1.32% 🟢⬆️
Metals
🥇 Gold · Dec — 4,160.60 · +63.60 · +1.55% 🟢⬆️
🥈 Silver · Sep — 59.017 · +0.928 · +1.60% 🟢⬆️
The Read
🌽 Corn — 468½, −3¼ (−0.69%) 🔴⬇️ $CORN ( ▲ 0.17% )
No fresh crop-condition print today (that's a Monday release) — corn just kept drifting after yesterday's bigger drop.
This morning's USDA export sales came in light: 362,900 tonnes (14.3 million bu), up on the week but 25% under the four-week average, with Mexico and Colombia buying while an unknown destination cancelled 349,900 tonnes.
So what: cheaper corn is a small break on the ration bill, but that cancellation is the kind of headline that keeps funds cautious.
Watch: Monday's next crop-condition update for confirmation the heat-stress worries are easing or building.
🫘 Soybeans — 1188¾, −4 (−0.34%) 🔴⬇️ $SOYB ( ▲ 0.06% )
Beans held up better than corn, still riding this week's confirmed Chinese purchases even as new-crop export sales cooled off in today's report.
Fund length across the complex remains well off this spring's record, leaving room to unwind in either direction.
So what: a quiet four-cent dip isn't worth changing a marketing plan over — the China demand story is still doing the heavy lifting.
Watch: Friday's Sinograin reserve-bean auction results for the next real China signal.