The GFS weather map shows a few showers passing over the US corn belt over the next week. This was the catalyst for a spat of end of week profit taking in US futures markets overnight. Wheat, corn, soybean...

Storms across the US corn belt will be followed by cooler weather this week but the mercury is still likely to settle around the 30C mark. Longer term it looks like the first week of August may also be...

The spring wheat crop tour is under way in North Dakota. As expected eastern ND is looking ok but those on western routes are seeing crops around 12″ to 14″ high with yield estimates around 1.2 to 1.85 t/ha....