2026 has opened with a familiar driver dominating the headlines: geopolitics. Forget Russia, Venezuela or Greenland, developments in Iran arguably carry far greater implications for
The Ashes are over, the Poms are heading home, the traders are back at their desks, and the headers are pulling up. The first grain
With little fresh direction, wheat prices have continued to follow the path of least resistance, grinding lower. After almost four years of entrenched conflict in
For southern canola growers, the timing of last week’s decline couldn’t have been much worse. Here we take a look at harvest pricing and whether
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) released its December Crop Report last week, and it came with some serious bumping
A week or so ago, I wrote how ‘big crops get bigger’. True to form, the trend continues. This week, StatsCan updated their production data
Summer is here, yet it has been hard to find spring heat in the south, let alone summer. Cool, wet conditions continue to delay harvest
Another ‘geopolitic’ type of week, with little fundamental news but lots of political intrigue to keep the market ticking over. News that the US President
Harvest is slow in the east, while in the west, headers are going hard, but there is still some way to go. Hay prices seem
Any hope that wheat bulls had of building a springboard to bounce higher was dashed by last week’s USDA report. The report, including the WASDE
Today’s article was going to look at harvest progress and pricing, and we will take a brief look at that, but the big news in
The market is holding its breath as it eagerly awaits the release of the first USDA report in over 40 days. The US Government shutdown
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