The Aussie dollar pushed below the 71c resistance level overnight triggering technical selling and a close of 70.29c. Some analyst do not expect to see sustained activity below the 70c mark but further strength in the USD may counter that sentiment. A drop below 70c is expected to produce...

Sell wheat, buy corn / soybeans seemed to be the cry at Chicago last night. The punters are quickly coming to the realisation that the Russian / Ukraine situation, although worthy of a mention in a news articles, is probably not the catalyst for WWIII as the US media...

Overnight Chicago wheat futures pushed higher taking both HRW and spring wheat at Minneapolis for the ride. The rally appeared in the Chicago overnight session with good gains prior to the day session opening. The fundamentals haven’t really changed much, which would indicate that the basis for this move...

S.America is suffering some big extremes in weather due to La Nina at present. Farming country in the far south of Argentina, south of the Pampas, the Stroeder area and further south, saw around 180mm of rain over a 48 hour period this week. Flat farmland becoming an inland...

It was all about US soybeans last night. Chicago bean futures rallied 34.5c/bu (AUD$17.50/t) on the nearby contract.  Spill over buying was evident in both Winnipeg canola and Paris rapeseed. The AUD was a little firmer, countering the move at Winnipeg by less than a dollar, so in theory...

Sharp gains in US wheat futures for the second night in a row. Soft red winter wheat futures are now up US$14.23 / tonne since this time last week, hard red wheat futures up US$8.08 / tonne and Minneapolis spring wheat futures are up US$7.07 per tonne. So at...

US wheat futures found support from surging US wheat exports, up 58% week on week, not hard considering the previous holiday efforts but still healthy at 369kt none the less. The USDA have US white wheat exports pencilled in at 4.08mt. Current year to date exports at 3.09mt. White...

The US markets were closed in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr Day. So little feedback from the states in today’s reports. Looking at grain futures markets in Europe we see milling wheat was a little higher, old crop up E2.25 in the March contract at Paris and the...

Bargain hunters were active in the corn pit at Chicago, pushing prices off a one month low. Not so in wheat and soybeans, both suffering another session in the red. Paris rapeseed broke a 4 day losing streak, recovering E29.75 (AUD$47) on the nearby contract. Strength in Paris rapeseed...

The prospect of a little rain across Brazil and Argentina seems to have fuelled much of last night’s decline in US grain futures. Looking at the forecast from World Ag Weather we see Argentina is expected to receive around 15 – 30mm of rain across much of the Pampas...