For reports to begin the week, USDA will release weekly export inspections at 10 a.m. CDT Monday. In the afternoon at 3 p.m. CDT, USDA will release the weekly Crop Progress report. As always, traders and investors will remain in tune to developments in the Middle East as well.
Weather
After a very busy weekend for the Central U.S., yet one more storm system will move from the Central Plains into the Midwest on Monday. Heavy rain and thunderstorms from Sunday continue ahead of this system through the Midwest, but additional showers and thunderstorms should erupt across the Plains and into the western Midwest Monday afternoon and evening. A moderate risk of severe weather has been posted by the Storm Prediction Center over Kansas and extreme southeastern Nebraska for the enhanced risk of strong tornadoes. Heavy rain from the weekend and Monday could result in additional areas of flooding for the middle of the country. Cold air moving down behind the system is causing rain to change to snow in Wyoming with some accumulations there.