The US market was open again after a long weekend. The punters took the path of least analysis and pressure was again exerted on the market from the WASDE report last week, and prices were generally softer across the board. The one real surprise, to me anyway, was Chicago...

With the US markets closed for Martin Luther King Jr day there’s not much to read out of the USA this morning. The weather in the US has been pretty harsh over the last few days, blizzards closing highways as far south as Kansas. In Montana temperatures are currently...

The WASDE was out last night and as expected the biggest losers were corn and soybeans. World ending stocks for corn, wheat and soybeans were all higher than trade estimates prior to the release of the WASDE. Corn was by far the biggest surprise. The avg trade estimate for...

Another poor session for US wheat futures. Corn was pressured by lower wheat and a better outlook from the S.American corn crop. Chicago soybeans closed flat to a smidge firmer. The fact the soybean market didn’t fall further was all the Paris rapeseed and Winnipeg canola market needed to...

It was very much a pre WASDE report type market across US futures last night. The USDA will present their first World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates report for 2024 on Friday night our time. I’ll have a dig into it on the Saturday morning comments. No one is...

Technical trade saw most grain futures markets close in the green last night. Even US soybeans closed higher, dragging both Paris rapeseed and Winnipeg canola higher by the close. Harvest of soybeans has commenced in Brazil, there’s not a lot off as yet, and the fields that are now...

US wheat futures were sharply lower in overnight trade. Generally cash wheat values from major exporting nations did not follow the Chicago SRWW futures contract lower dollar for dollar. HRW out of the US PNW was valued at US$248.38 roughly AUD$6.74 lower as opposed to the move in SRWW...

The biggest losers overnight were the oilseeds. Funds continue to clear a long position held in Chicago soybean futures as good rain falls, and is predicted to continue to fall, across much of the major production area’s for soybeans (and corn) in Brazil and Argentina. The pressure from this...

A softer close in Chicago soybean futures weighed on both the Winnipeg canola contract and Paris rapeseed futures. The weaker dollar helped, turning the Winnipeg move from a potential -AUD$11.62 to -AUD$8.52. At Paris the move equates to a day to day change of about -AUD$2.80 thanks to a...

Funds continue to sell wheat while buying corn, and yes, also buying soybeans at Chicago ??. Overnight Chicago soybean futures for the March 24 slot closed a smidge higher, up 3.5c/bu by the close. This caught a few oilseed bears by surprise. The Winnipeg canola futures contract was having...