A public holiday in the USA will delay the release of their weekly crop progress report by one day, it’s due out tonight. Over the last 7 days the US Midwest, and most location east of the Mississippi, have seen some good rain, 25mm to 75mm across Iowa, Missouri...

International futures markets were mixed, wheat a smidge lower in the US and France, corn, soybeans, rapeseed a smidge higher. There wasn’t a huge swing one way or the other, but I continue to find it odd that wheat is slipping considering the conditions in the US and a...

Net US export sales data show good volume for corn, 2.125mt booked, that is well above the average trade guess leading into the report, which was only 1.6mt. Soybean sales volume was ho-hum at 351kt, in the middle of the pre-report trade estimates. Wheat was terrible, as expected. The...

It appears the Monday rally in US wheat futures was nothing more than a dead cat bounce, failing to run anywhere and threatening to die in the meantime. A bit like the US hard red winter wheat crop, that the punters appear to have forgotten about until the next...

World grain futures markets appeared to have taken half a breather last night. Digesting the Xi / Trump brief, the USDA crop progress report and falling demand for wheat as US, Argie, EU and Aussie prices remain high, or climb a little higher, may take time. Black Sea wheat...

The weekly USDA crop progress report was out overnight. Corn sowing has progressed to 76% complete, bang on the same as last year and 6pts ahead of the 5 year average. Soybean sowing is also progressing well, at 67% sown it’s above the pace of last year, and the...

International futures were a sea of red, apart from Paris rapeseed and Winnipeg canola, which in itself is surprising given that Chicago soybean futures continued to push lower, back 15.5c/bu nearby and -12.25c/bu in the Jan 27 slot. Paris rapeseed futures gained E5.75/t nearby and E4.25/t in the Feb...

The WASDE data appears to now be a distant memory. The sudden realisation that the US HRWW crop is a bit shagged hardly even rating a mention for the algo traders. Chart trading bears might be eyeing off the gap in the chart at 636c/bu, lets hope not. One...

US grains tried to hold onto the recent rally at Chicago. Corn and soybeans succeeded, but all three major wheat grades gave back some gains. There was talk December futures for hard red winter wheat were going to test 800c/bu, but closed the session at 750c/bu. The US 2026-27...

Chicago wheat futures focused a little more closely on the weekly USDA crop progress report last night, probably giving the decline in winter wheat crop condition in Kansas the attention it deserved. Chicago HRWW jumped 45c/bu, or if you live in the 21st century, that’s roughly AUD$22.84/t at this...