The US Wheat Quality Council done their annual crop tour of Kansas this week with 75 scouts walking through fields in an attempt to come up with a Kansas wheat production number. Average yields were pegged at 47.2 bushels / acre, 3.17t/ha to you and me. This may sound...

Soybean futures at Chicago saw double digit losses on the back of increased tension between US and China over the coronavirus. Technically Chicago soybeans are now neutral to maybe a little oversold, so potentially a repeat of this week next week. Weekly sales volume out of the states were...

Short covering was a key feature of the Chicago wheat pit in overnight trade. Triggered by reports of dry weather in both the US and Russia the initial rally triggered orders and the session closed with some nice gains. Proofing the report of dry weather shows that parts of...

The pulse industry claimed another large scalp last week. Indian company Phoenix Commodities went under to the tune of about US$400m, not bad for a company valued at US$1.1Bn as recently as January and claimed a US$43.5m profit last year. Banks in the UAE seem to have been hit...

US wheat futures continued to push lower as the world moves out of the N.Hemisphere spring mostly unscathed. India is reporting they will harvest a record or near record wheat crop. Russian has seen 25-50mm of rain across most of their wheat country in the last couple of weeks....

It’s not only the Australian barley market that is looking less than exciting at the moment. Recent reports out of the UK are also advising producers to be ready for an extended period of low prices for barley. The N.African feed market may be the key with pockets of...

World grain futures were generally either side of unchanged. In the US corn and soybeans were a tad softer, HRW and spring wheat were softer while nearby soft red wheat was a smidge higher. No market moved in a convincing manner up or down, as technical trade dominated the...

It was a sea of red across global grain futures markets by the close of last night’s session. The US market had a bit of an epiphany and decided they had pushed wheat values too high and were now uncompetitive in the global market. Market wires vary on the...

US markets saw the WASDE come and go without much of a surprise really. Most bearish expectations had already been factored in and the USDA didn’t disappoint so basically it was a case of a quick look over the report and then back to business as usual. In the...

We have a USDA World Ag Supply & Demand report out tonight so the US markets were mainly concerned with positioning and speculation associated with that. At Chicago soybeans were a tad firmer, corn was flat to lower while wheat was lower with HRW slipping further than SRW. Meanwhile...