Grains & Oilseeds

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Market Comment

Will Trump 2.0 be the next Y2K?

A few weeks ago, we wrote that the world’s corn stocks were getting worryingly tight. Earlier this week, the USDA tightened them even further by

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Market Comment

Make it make sense

Week on week, the wheat market has managed to stay pretty much exactly where it was – unchanged despite a raft of big data being

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Market Analysis

Rain slowing harvest

Harvest has stalled somewhat on the east coast, with rain pulling up headers across much of southern NSW and into Victoria. The WA crop was

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Market Comment

Words can hurt

Wheat markets have been relatively quiet this week. The unrest in the Black Sea barely rates a mention anymore, the Middle East seems to be

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Market Comment

Black Sea front and centre again

Another escalation in tension in the Ukraine – Russia conflict occurred with the Biden administration approving the use of US long-range weapons. The rapidly changing

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Market Analysis

A cracking pace for harvest

Grain harvest is setting a good pace this year, with little in the way of weather delays, and crops coming off well. Prices have been

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Market Comment

Was the USD on your bingo card?

After a couple of weeks of trading sideways, the wheat market snapped and plunged lower, breaking through the psychological level of support at 560c/bu and

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Research: Analysis of the Australian sheep flock

In this report for LiveCorp and MLA, we analysed the historical trends in the demographics of the Australian sheep flock, examining domestic factors that influence farm-level enterprise decision making. 

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