The US futures market eased a little last night as reality started to creep back in. Corn, soybeans and soft wheat were all lower while hard wheat managed to hold onto some of yesterday’s gains and remain at values close to where they were in the beginning of March....

Six hundred and seventy two, that’s how many days since Chicago nearby wheat futures last rallied more than 20c / bushel in one session. Yep, back on the 30th of June 2015. We’ve waited a long time. Sure we’ve seen sessions slip by more than 20c between then and...

Canola is interesting this morning, either there was some spread trade between ICE and Paris May futures getting liquidated last night, i.e. buy Paris sell Winnipeg, (or maybe some bargain option punting) or all this chatter about how dry it is in France and how big the Canadian canola...

US wheat futures rallied on the back of reports weekend weather could slip below freezing as far south as Texas. So far this morning I can’t find any actual weather models to back up that media release but hey, let’s just let the punters run with it anyway. Temperatures...

In the USA wheat futures continued to find a little support although in the case of SRW futures at Chicago that support only prevented further losses than the 1c/bu decline in nearby values. Spring wheat futures is where the interest lies. Looking at N.Dakota we see that as of...

The US weather map had a big bearing on Chicago grain futures last night. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is predicted across a large slice of the corn and soybean belt mostly east of the Mississippi this week. The wet weather is likely to create some sowing delays for...

The StatsCanada report basically told us all what we were expecting. Canadian canola planting are expected to be at a record level come June. A total of 22.4 million acres of canola is to be sown according the Canadian government. Canadian wheat area was also above the trade estimates...

The US wheat markets had a reality check overnight, yep, the world is still awash with wheat, just like it has been for a year or two. The weather map in the US looks pretty good and realistically any shortfall in 2017 production in most of the major exporters...

Wheat futures in the USA were weaker on the back of a good weather outlook for winter wheat. Wet weather is hampering the spring wheat plant in the north of the US but it’s still early days. Speculation the Argentine wheat crop could be as big as 17.5mt was...

The US futures punters are not showing a lot of interest in the slow sowing pace for corn in the central corn belt. In the past we have seen new technology, machinery and varieties allow the US farmer to catch up very, very quickly and to worry about sowing...