December Corn futures closed sharply higher, achieving its first close over the 200-day moving average and the highest close since January 18th. The market is showing aggressive movement ahead of the November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, which is now considered even more important due to the missed October report. Trade is anticipating the USDA's numbers on Friday. The average trade guess for corn yield is 184 bushels per acre, down from the September USDA estimate of 186.7 bushels per acre. The average trade guess for ending stocks is 2.136 billion bushels, slightly higher than the USDA's September estimate of 2.110 billion bushels. This higher ending stocks estimate reflects an extra 207 million bushel carryover from the previous year's crop reported in the quarterly grain stocks report. Weekly export sales, for the week ending September 25th, were 1.395 million metric tons, which was a positive number despite being at the lower end of trade expectations.