08/21/26 Grains Pause to Catch Their Breath

08/21/2026 Click Above to Watch the Morning Market Talk Video Grains Pause to Catch Their Breath On the Grains Corn, soybeans and wheat pulled back a little overnight as markets paused to catch their breath after a week of strong gains. Key today will continue to be money flow, specially whether funds see the overnight weakness as a buying opportunity and continue to chase the long side of the market. Day 4 Pro Farmer Crop Tour Results: Better Corn Yields but Still Lacking Pro Farmer released results from Day 4 of Crop Tour for Iowa and Minnesota on Thursday evening. Iowa: Ear counts were down versus year-ago and the three-year average… so was grain length. That led to a yield of 194.0 that was well under year-ago but up from the three-year average. The eastern side of the state was expected to pull up the average from what was found in western Iowa… and it did – just not as much as anticipated. On average, Crop Tour is historically 7.4 bu. too low in Iowa. If you add that historical miss to this year’s yield, it signals a 201.4 bu. per acre yield – well below USDA’s August estimate of 216…