Soybean futures at Chicago once again lead the US grain markets higher. Another 380kt of beans were pencilled in for China overnight, 130kt of corn was switched from corn to beans. Generally the fundamentals for wheat, corn and soybeans in the US tends to be bearish if anything. Not...

Uninteresting two sided trade dominated the US grain markets overnight. Wheat was mixed but generally higher, corn either side of unchanged and soybeans were a little softer. The USDA crop progress report came out yesterday morning and showed little had changed in condition ratings week on week and harvest...

Soybeans were the star performer last night after a number of recent US sales continue to support the market. Old crop carry over is going to be lower than expected according to the USDA and soybean oil is also getting a little tight. The US is still expecting to...

It was a typical sell the rumour buy the fact type of session once the USDA put their numbers on the table. US corn is projected with record yields, we all knew that. Instead of falling on the confirmation it closed slightly higher. US soybeans, record production, beans had...

The punters were more concerned with what the USDA might do with corn and bean production in tonight’s USDA report than any physical fundamental news in last night’s markets. More good sales of US soybeans were reported overnight and Germany joined the list  of EU states cutting wheat production....

With a WASDE report due out off the US on Friday the market seems pretty happy to tread water at present. Wheat at Chicago, Kansas and Minny were all trading a very narrow range overnight and corn pushed 3c lower. Soybeans were a little more active but ended the...

Soybeans in the US closed higher on the back of what is shaping up to be a another massive week for US sales. Corn found support from a single sale but continues to struggle as what appears to be a big US corn crop approaches harvest without any major...

US wheat futures closed higher on further short covering and speculation America (not Russia) has a chance to fill the supply void being left by an ever decreasing supply of wheat from France. Overnight French officials reduced expected yields to a 30 year low of 5.57t/ha, the lowest since...

US soybean futures were the only grain that came out of last night unscathed. Over the last seven day the US has sold 2.3mt of soybeans, that’s a lot. During the same seven days the CME soybean contract for Sept has fallen 42c/bu. US wheat futures continue along the...

US wheat futures closed higher after setting ten year lows on Tuesday. Technical buying saw the bottom pickers in buying up cheap contracts and funds covering exposed shorts. Fundamentally nothing has changed and wheat will continue to struggle as the world consumes what is likely to be another record...