CBOT Trends-Wheat up 4-6 cents, corn up 4-9, soy up 10-11

* CBOT corn Cv1 futures ticked higher on Thursday, with prices recovering as market players awaited Friday's closely watched U.S. Department of Agriculture supply and demand report. * The USDA report is being seen as a gauge of the impact of hot, dry weather on the U.S. corn crop. * The eastern Midwest will trend drier in the coming weeks, aiding the harvest, according to forecaster Commodity Weather Group. * The USDA reported net weekly export sales of corn for the week ended August 27 at 1,156,800 metric tons. * CBOT December corn CZ26 was last up 4-1/4 cents to $5.32 per bushel. * CBOT wheat Wv1 headed up after Wednesday's fall as traders monitored developments in the Russia-Ukraine war. * Prices have retreated with diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war with Ukraine encouraging profit-taking. * Russia hopes that U.S.-mediated peace talks on ending the war in Ukraine will resume soon, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. * No such talks between Russia and Ukraine have taken place since February, but President Donald Trump sent his negotiators to Moscow and then Kyiv at the weekend in a bid to relaunch the stalled process. * The USDA reported net weekly export sales of wheat for the week ended August 27 at 313,500 metric tons. * CBOT December soft red winter wheat WZ26 was last up 4-3/4 cents at 7.33-1/2 per bushel. K.C. December hard red winter wheat KWZ26 was last 3 cents higher to $8.09-1/4 a bushel. Minneapolis December spring wheat MWEZ26 was last 3-1/2 cents higher to $7.51-1/2 a bushel. * CBOT soybean futures Sv1 steadied after falling on Wednesday, with traders adjusting positions prior to the USDA's supply and demand report release. * China has bought around 1 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans this week, four traders told Reuters, as the world's top oilseed buyer steps up purchases ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington later this month. * The purchases take China's total U.S. soybean buying to nearly half of the 25 million tons the White House said Beijing had committed to annually through 2028. * Argentina's Rosario grains exchange cut its 2026/27 soybean harvest estimate by 200,000 tons to 47.8 million tons on Wednesday citing lower profit margins relative to corn that are drawing farmers to expand corn plantings. * The USDA reported net weekly export sales of soybeans for the week ended Aug. 27 at 1,854,000 metric tons. * CBOT November soybeans SX26 were last up 11 cents to $13.20-1/2 per bushel.

CBOT Trends-Wheat up 4-6 cents, corn up 4-9, soy up 10-11

Corn rises ahead of USDA supply and demand report

Wheat expected higher on Ukraine war developments

Soybeans steady before USDA report, aided by China buying

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