CBOT corn ends lower after choppy trade

Feb 6 - Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended lower after spending the day chopping up and down while under pressure from improving global weather, though rising soybean futures added underlying support.

• Traders are monitoring dry weather in Argentina, though a massive U.S. harvest last year and favorable planting conditions for Brazil's second corn crop tempered concerns.

• Argentina, one of the world’s top food exporters, had been on track for a record corn harvest in the 2025/26 season, but unusually high January temperatures, topping 35 degrees Celsius in some areas, combined with low rainfall, strained crops across much of the country’s agricultural heartland.

• Brazil corn exports are seen reaching 793,364 tons in February compared with 1.32 million tons in the same period last year, according to ANEC, a national association of grain producers in Brazil.

• CBOT March corn CH26 closed 4-3/4 cents lower to $4.30-1/4 per bushel.