What a market, you can be 100% bearish in the morning and then 100% bullish by the afternoon, and you don’t even need to be wrong to have that change in sentiment. Whenever politics is in control of something you can bet on one thing, volatility. The markets took...

Bargain hunters were in the mix last night, picking up corn and soybean futures at Chicago thus lending a hand to the wheat market. The main three US  wheat grades were higher by the close, not jumping up and running away but firmer. The value of the rally in...

The strength in the US dollar triggered a round of technical selling in US grain futures. Wheat, corn, and soybeans futures at Chicago all closing lower. The weaker soybean market spilt over into both Winnipeg canola futures and Paris rapeseed, both closing lower. Paris for the Feb slot was...

US futures markets were generally flat to firmer, bar soybeans which slipped 13c/bu on the January contract. It is harvest time for US summer crops and the level of competition the US is facing from both Brazil and Argentina in regards to corn and soybean sales is hurting the...

Algeria picked up 300kt of wheat on Friday, the majority being Russian. Approximately 180kt of the tender is Russian wheat from the Black Sea. Other supply destinations included Bulgaria, France and Ukraine with 30kt each. Algeria is also in the market for 50kt of durum wheat, this tender closing...

US wheat and corn futures pushed higher on Friday night after the USDA quarterly stocks report through up some interesting numbers. Corn stocks were lower than expected pushing corn futures. Wheat saw a good rally in futures but this wasn’t on the back of stocks being vastly different to...

The bombardment of complex outside market influences continues to take the lead over fundamental influence in world grain markets. The world will continue to eat, probably grains and meat, (maybe bugs). So, keeping a close eye on fundamentals is going to head you right in the long run… but....

US wheat futures continue to push along in the same volatile nature they have exhibited for some time now. Once again the catalyst for the surge higher in US wheat futures is tension in the Black Sea. Most of the punters seem to think there is more of a...

Technical Tuesday, call it what you will. The market was happy to buy a little back yesterday after some sharp moves lower in recent sessions. US wheat futures found buying support mainly from the short covering side of the market, profit taking, but also from reports that Russian drones...

Spill over selling from the share market hurt US grain futures overnight. One might have expected to see the US market rally a little with the prediction of a Hurricane crossing the coast of Florida and pushing inland, but the markets chose to concentrate on the bigger picture. That...