Wheat is trading with slight weakness across most contracts on Friday morning. Traders were busy squaring up ahead of the month end on Friday, as the three wheat exchanges were mostly higher. CBT soft red wheat futures were up 4 to 8 cents across the front months. Preliminary open interest suggested some short covering, down 10,649 contracts. KC HRW futures were 1 to 3 cents higher on the day. There were 328 deliveries issued against September KC overnight. MPLS spring wheat was up fractionally to 4 ¼ cents in the September contract. Friday is first notice day.

Thursday morning’s Export Sales report showed wheat sales of 579,794 MT in the week ending on August 21, a 11.55% jump from last week. The largest buyer was Vietnam of 156,800 MT, with 106,000 MT sold to Nigeria and Mexico buying 94,200 MT. There was 139,600 MT reported in net cancellations for unknown destinations mainly switched to a destination.

Canadian wheat production is estimated at 35.548 MMT in total, shy of the 35.9 MMT average trade guess. That is down 1.1% from last year. Spring wheat is estimated down 2% to 25.992 MMT. The European Commission estimates the 2025/26 wheat crop at 128.1 MMT, up 0.8 MMT from last month’s number. Stocks are expected to be up 0.5 MMT to 7.6 MMT.

Sep 25 CBOT Wheat  closed at $5.10 1/4, up 8 cents, currently up 1/4 cent

Dec 25 CBOT Wheat  closed at $5.29, up 4 3/4 cents, currently down 1 cent

Sep 25 KCBT Wheat  closed at $4.86 3/4, up 1 1/4 cents, currently down 1 1/2 cents

Dec 25 KCBT Wheat  closed at $5.15 3/4, up 2 3/4 cents, currently down 1 1/2 cents

Sep 25 MGEX Wheat  closed at $5.55 1/4, up 4 1/4 cents, currently down 5 1/4 cents

Dec 25 MGEX Wheat  closed at $5.77 1/4, up 1/2 cent, currently down 1/2 cent