A daily agriculture snapshot on grain and soybean futures, USDA export inspections and freeze watches in the Southern Plains.

Grain and soybean futures were weaker overnight as traders watched oil prices and renewed Middle East tension, while fresh USDA export-inspections data and Southern Plains freeze watches added more pressure points for the market.

USDA export-inspections figures for the week ending April 30 showed corn and wheat shipments up week to week, while soybean inspections slipped. The data gave traders a read on near-term export demand even as broader price action was driven by outside markets.

Weather remained a separate concern. Freeze watches were posted for parts of western Kansas, eastern Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, raising the risk of damaging cold for early-season crops.

That combination of global energy moves, export data and weather risk kept attention on fundamentals rather than just price momentum. For producers and traders, the next focus is whether the cold materializes and whether later USDA or weather updates change the picture.

This is a brief daily snapshot, but the underlying signals point in the same direction: export demand is uneven, and weather remains a live threat in parts of the Plains.

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