While market participants see nothing but bad news while the market is closed, we were able to chew through that bearish sentiment and saw a more constructive trade yesterday. Corn futures spend the majority of last week’s trade consolidating, with little new news to break the market lower or spark a short-covering rally. Plant disruptions and a continuous flow of bad news weighing heavy on the livestock markets.Corn futures spend the majority of last week’s trade consolidating, with little new news to break the market lower or spark a short-covering rally. The S&P 500 gained 12% in its best week since 1974.Cattle futures have been mostly untradable for the past month though yesterday’s session provided some great intraday opportunities.Corn futures moved higher while May contracts for Soybeans and Chicago Wheat consolidated ahead of Thursday's report.We got through what has been the hardest day of each week for the past several weeks, Monday. We got a string of bad news over the weekend with regards to reduced capacity at a handful of packing plants through the Country.Covid-19 concerns continue to move the livestock futures market from bad to worseMay corn futures made several attempts to rally last week but failed to hold those attempts through the close, which has kept the funds comfortably short. Friday’s Commitment of Traders report showed funds net short position at 99,925 contracts.