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Grain Prices Slide: Bloomberg Grains Index Down 4% on the Week

The Bloomberg Grains Subindex fell 0.48% to 32.9219 points at the New York close on Friday, October 2, capping a weekly decline of 4.01%. CBOT corn futures led losses, dropping 5.87% for the week to $4.9725 a bushel, while wheat fell 2.88% to $6.83 and soybeans dropped 3.17% to $12.7725. The index slid sharply on September 30 after the USDA released its report.

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The synchronized weekly drop across corn, wheat and soybeans points to a macro or supply-side driver rather than a single-crop story, and the timing around the USDA release suggests the report reset expectations for the whole complex. For RWA and tokenized-commodity markets, grain benchmarks like this often feed into collateral valuations and structured products, so a broad move matters beyond ag traders. Whether the post-USDA reaction holds or reverses once the initial positioning clears is the open question.

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