Traders and analysts continue to cite the plentiful stocks of feed grains, which have solidly capped occasional fund-related rallies.
Positioning was noted ahead of the long holiday weekend. Markets will close early on Friday at 12:00 pm CST (1800 GMT) and remain closed on Monday. Trading will resume with the overnight electronic session overnight Monday and a full trading schedule is slated for Tuesday.
At 10:25 am CST (1625 GMT), CBOT corn was down 1 to 1-3/4 cents per bushel, with March down 1-3/4 at $2.09-1/4 per bushel. There was nothing in the export sector to give corn futures a lift.