Algeria picked up some durum wheat yesterday. Just to keep the speculation high, Algeria do not make public their tender results, so the following is a guess by some industry participants of what has been booked or is still transpiring. The tonnage is expected to be between 150kt –...

US wheat futures continued higher on technical trading, short covering. Fundamental support was said to be garnered from the recent Russian attacks of Ukraine port facilities. Values out of the Pacific Northwest of the USA followed the futures markets higher, hard red winter wheat and spring wheat values, both...

US wheat futures closed higher on the back of news that Russia had attacked grain infrastructure in Odessa and Mykolaiv ports. The lower volume in the days trade for nearby SRWW at Chicago was also seen as a factor to the increased volatility. Open interest remains exceptionally high. After...

Rainfall across the corn and sorghum regions of Argentina has generally been good over the last 30 days. Heavy general rain has been reported over the last week which will go a long way to helping crops recover from some late heat stress in the north. The crop rating...

US wheat futures were lower. The Chinese cancellation announcements appeared to be the major influence but there was also technical selling in the wheat pit. Fundamentally the impact the Chinese cancellation of US and Australian wheat will have longer term on the market will depend on if they re-enter...

There’s an increasing amount of speculation that the bottom for wheat might be in, for futures at least. The funds appear to be covering their short position at both Chicago and Paris. To date this has been done in a relatively orderly fashion, although the volatility in HRWW futures...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the 5 nearby corn contracts at Chicago all close unchanged before. It’s not like there was a lack of volume in the May contract either. Approximately 121,994 contracts changed hands, that’s 15.24mt, in a range of just 7c/bu. Some reports assume that without...

US wheat futures continued higher, ignoring a technically bearish US wheat USDA report on Friday. The lastest WASDE, although a little bearish US wheat, with increasing ending stocks there, was fundamentally a benign to slightly bullish report for international wheat. The US wheat futures market has been shorted by...

It was USDA World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates report night for their March stab in the dark. I’ll concentrate on wheat to start with. From a global perspective the report initially looks benign, if not a little bullish for wheat. Looking further into the data and blowing away...

There are reports of wheat crop damage in India. Storms have flattened many fields according to a Reuters report. A producer in Uttar Pradesh has been quoted as stating his entire crop has been flattened and will now need to be harvested by hand. The crop was just 2-3...