Stronger wheat futures at Chicago spilled into the day session. One of the lead stories being the attack on June 4th by Russian forces on an up river grain loading and storage facility at Mykolaiv. The port is located between the Black Sea ports of Kherson and Odessa. The...

FranceAgriMer continue to reduce the crop condition rating of winter and spring crops. Soft wheat rated good to excellent declined another 2% week on week to 67% G/E. This represents a reduction in the G/E rating of 20% since May. There was further talk of drought despite some decent...

Dead cat bounce, bear trap, technical trade, call it what you will. US wheat futures found buying interest overnight reversing the downward trend of the last few sessions. Up until last night’s session the nearby SRWW contract at Chicago had shed over 236c/u since May 17th. That’s just under...

Interesting to see a boat load of durum wheat from India to Turkey has been rejected on phytosanitary concerns. This raises the point of what the quality of Indian wheat is. India also had issues with a shipment of milling wheat into Asia early last month. There are boats...

Crushed, hammered, beaten, it doesn’t matter what word you use the US futures market got a little ugly last night. All three wheat grades, corn, soybeans, even cotton was lower by the close. Wheat was hardest hit, the CME nearby soft red winter wheat contract shedding AUD$35.83 per tonne....

A quick look around the world weather. Western Saskatchewan and Alberta remain relatively dry, this is becoming an issue with the finalisation of sowing on spring wheat, in particular durum. The durum that has been sown in the drier parts of the N.American durum belt is looking for rain....

US wheat, corn and soybean futures all closed in the green last night. The spread between December 2022 wheat contracts at Chicago for soft red winter wheat and hard red winter wheat is now around 74.75c/bu or just over AUD$38.00 per tonne. The spread between MGEX spring wheat and...

US futures were mixed, all over the place, the common trend seemed to be upward momentum in the spring sown crops to the north and in Canada, like northern US soybeans and spring and durum wheat. The hard red and soft red winter wheat values were lower as was...

US futures market were a little unsteady last night. Soybean futures lead the Chicago market lower, slipping 12c/bu on the nearby. Wheat at Chicago was a tad softer and spring wheat a tad firmer at Minneapolis. Corn followed the trend lower off just a couple of cents nearby and...

US wheat futures found considerable weakness again today, making 4 of the last 5 sessions a lower close. Losses in Chicago SRWW nearby futures from the high close of 1277c/bu set on the 17th of May now amount to 122.75c/bu (AUD$63.46). Values out of the US Pacific North West...