The USA and Canada had another long weekend so futures market news is thin on the ground unless you look towards the European markets. At Paris milling wheat was up E4.75 on the nearby March 21 contract. May futures were not far behind with a gain of E4.25/t. The...

At Chicago HRW futures found some support from the winter storm pushing through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Looking at some of the weather sites in the US we see places like Salina Kansas will see minimum temperatures drop as low as -24C on Monday morning. Daytime temperatures there will...

At Chicago both corn and soybean futures managed to claw back some of the recent losses while wheat continued lower. The path for US wheat futures in the short term, at least until we get through the next couple of days, is probably sideways. Wheat futures are torn between...

Futures markets in the US were down overnight. Corn and soybeans were sharply lower while wheat was caught up in the selling / profit taking resulting in a lower close on all three US grades of wheat. Some punters are arguing that the USDA data did not reflect the...

Looking at the USDA WASDE report this morning shows a nice reduction in world wheat ending stocks, from 313.19mt in January to 304.22mt. Interesting to see that the world production estimate was actually increased 800kt to 773.44mt. A 9.78mt increase in domestic use seems to be the key to...

A winter storms has seen cold weather push across the northern mid-west of the USA covering Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and parts of Iowa and Illinois. The mercury dropped to as low as -35C across Minnesota. Further south in the HRW belt of Kansas and Oklahoma overnight...

All the wires are still rambling on about the weekly US corn sales to China, a new record weekly sales volume. Looking at it on a chart it is indeed an impressive spike. It does reveal a number of different things that need to be considered when dealing with...

In international news Algeria picked up 630kt of Feb / March milling wheat at an average price of about US$313 / tonne C&F. Algerian tender results are not public but trade guesses on supply and value are usually pretty close. The bulk of supply will come from the EU,...

I’m going to deviate a little today onto something that’s, well, interesting. I’m not sure how many of you know what Reddit is but it is basically an multi forum online hosting facility. People start a group, name it something catchy, others join that group and so on. There’s...

In Canada, SW Saskatchewan, cash bids for canola and all grades of spring wheat were higher. Canola put on C$23.57 for a March lift while spring wheat was C$5.88 higher for the 13.5% product and C$5.52 higher for the 11.5% product. Durum values were a little firmer at C$308.56...