Prices 5/9/18

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The only people the news that Russia do not intend to limit wheat exports came as a surprise to were the punters on the world futures markets who started the rumour in the first place. Longer term the Russian S&D sheet does appear to have a few discrepancies but...
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Prices 4/9/18

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Hot on the heal of news that Russian wheat exports hit 8.17mt up to and including the week ending August 30th, that’s a 63% increase on the same time last year, comes yet another confirmation from Russian officials that they currently have no to limit wheat exports this year....
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Prices 3/9/18

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US wheat, corn and soybean futures closed higher. The AUD is sharply weaker and global wheat offers at an FOB level continue to trade sideways to lower. In the US, futures were caught up in end of month, long weekend trade. Wheat dragged the corn market higher and soybeans...
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Prices 31/8/18

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Well Wednesday’s gains in US wheat futures proved to be a dead cat bounce. This term always amused me, apparently a dead cat may bounce when thrown from a high point but it doesn’t actually get up and run away. The rally was based on concern Russia would implement...
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Prices 30/8/18

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Fundamentally there is no fresh news justifying the significant jump in both US and EU wheat futures overnight. If you believe the market wires the rally appears to have been based off speculation that Russia will curb wheat exports after a less than perfect harvest this year. Yes, that’s...
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Prices 29/8/18

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The international markets continue to see mixed signals for wheat values. We have Russian milling wheat values into Egypt continuing to fall away and we have EU yields being cut further. Egypt picked up Black Sea wheat at an average price of about US$241 per tonne, about US$9.00 less...
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Prices 28/8/18

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US grain futures continue to see fund money being withdrawn for greener fields. The US share market responded positively to news the Trump administration had struck a trade deal with Mexico. The modified NAFTA agreement thus far continues to exclude Canada. According to Trump negotiations with Trudeau will commence...
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Prices 27/8/18

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US wheat futures continued to fall, the stronger AUD isn’t going to help the situation come Monday either. Looking at new crop canola at the ICE we see the move in futures is a +AUD$0.63 while the move in currency is worth -AUD$3.84. In the US the wheat harvest...
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Prices 24/8/18

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Soybean slipping further and a stronger US dollar all contributed to a poor performance in wheat futures at Chicago.  US weekly export sales were not very impressive either with just 240kt of wheat sales made. The punters had pencilled in orders for about 650kt so the 240kt number really...
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Prices 23/8/18

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Germany announced their drought aid packed to farmers yesterday on the back of news that Germany will not produce enough grain to be self sufficient this year. The package consisted of non-repayable cash grants to producers that qualified and could prove that the drought there had reduced crops by...
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