Wheat rose the most in two months on speculation that yesterday’s plunge in prices prompted investors to unwind bets that futures would decline.
Sugar futures fell for the third time in four sessions on forecasts that output will recover in India, the world’s top consumer and second-biggest producer. Orange juice rose to a three-week high.
Cane production in Indonesia may rise 10 percent after farmers increased planting and raised productivity, potentially helping Southeast Asia’s biggest sugar buyer to reduce imports.
Corn and wheat rebounded on speculation that yesterday’s price slumps were exaggerated. Soybeans also climbed.
Soybeans were little changed, heading for the biggest weekly jump in two months on speculation that China will increase purchases of U.S. soybean oil after curbing imports from Argentina in a trade dispute.
Wheat rose to a six-week high as some speculators reduced bets that prices would decline, after futures capped the biggest weekly rally in two months.
Sugar tumbled more than 5 percent, leading commodities lower, after the U.S. filed a fraud suit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of Wall Street’s biggest traders and brokers of raw materials.
Russia planted spring grains on 1.045 million hectares to April 14, which is 693,000 hectares less than on the same date last year, the Agriculture Ministry announced Thursday.
European Union 2010-11 soft wheat production is revised up slightly on the month to 134.2 million metric tons, Strategie Grains data showed Thursday.
Wheat rose for the third time this week on signs that hedge funds and other large speculators are unwinding bets that prices will fall.