Corn futures in the USA can’t take a trick. China comes in and buys 1.365mt of US corn, the biggest purchase of US corn in 25.5 years and the futures market goes down. Even the USDA WASDE report was more bullish corn than bearish. Ending stocks were lower, production...

News that year on year wheat acreage in the UK was back 25% certainly had the Euro market humming. The talk wasn’t reflected in the futures market though with London feed wheat flat for the nearby contracts. Milling wheat futures at Paris did push higher though as did the...

Soft red winter wheat futures at Chicago had a good rally last night. The move higher was said to be a result of the combination of technical trade ahead of the WASDE  report and continued concern about lower production estimates in the US, Ukraine, Russia and Europe. Looking at...

There is a USDA World Ag Supply and Demand Estimate report due out on the 10th, so much of the trade in the US futures markets at present is focused around predictions for the data being presented on Friday night our time. There is also a little shuffling as...

US futures found support initially from a hot, dry forecast for the week ahead. This saw the punters cover a few more shorts and trade around a couple of good sales reported earlier in the day. The weekly export inspections report came out late and was a little disappointing...

Dry weather has seen a slight reduction in predicted wheat acres across Cordoba in western Argentina. So far around 71% of an estimated 6.7 million hectares has been sown, if realised a planted area of this size will be a new record area. The drier weather currently being experienced,...

Profit taking dominated the US futures session with corn and wheat sliding substantially. Soybeans found some support from export sales over 860kt, China making up about 593kt of the total. ICE canola and Paris rapeseed futures were mixed. ICE canola was generally lower for the old crop but either...

Happy Canada Day, Canada. No ICE canola numbers this morning. PDQ notes some cash prices for SW Saskatchewan though. Spring wheat was a little softer in line with losses on the Minneapolis contract in the states, I’m still struggling to understand why that contract is falling and not moving...

It was all about the US quarterly stocks report last night. Corn and soybean area was reduced thus stocks month on month came in much lower than the lower trade estimates prior to the report’s release. The funds, which had been big sellers over the last couple of weeks,...

Corn futures at Chicago found some support around speculation on the up-coming quarterly stocks report. The usual rumour, talk of further Chinese corn purchases, was also pushed about to create more interest. Corn was also aided by increases in the energy market with oil, gasoline and diesel moving higher....