Wheat futures are showing mixed action early Thursday, with winter wheat contracts posting modest gains while spring wheat edges lower. On Wednesday, the wheat complex led a grain rally, with Kansas City hard red winter wheat futures surging 21 to 30½ cents to their highest spot level since August 2023, and Chicago soft red winter wheat climbing 21 to 27¾ cents to the highest front-month continuation since 2024. Minneapolis spring wheat gained 16 to 24¾ cents. Traders await weekly export sales data, with expectations for net 2026/27 sales between 200,000 and 550,000 metric tons. Russia has paused nighttime shipments from the major export hub of Novorossiysk due to recent Ukrainian drone strikes. The annual spring wheat tour showed a yield of 48.1 bushels per acre for north-central and northwest North Dakota, 1.9 bushels above last year.