Market Comment
Little Aussie battler – How high can it go?
The Aussie Dollar has surged in the past couple of months, climbing off the deck at around 0.74 to now be knocking on the door
Nick Booth
February 26, 2021
The Aussie Dollar has surged in the past couple of months, climbing off the deck at around 0.74 to now be knocking on the door
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) released their February Crop Report last week, and it contained a few upgrades. Thanks
Another choppy week in the Ag markets this week. This time the catalyst has not been political interference or distorted trade, but weather. Really cold
Forecasts of unseasonally cold temperatures of -15C in some US states, carrying the potential to kill planted wheat crops; are bullish for the US wheat
Much of the news this week has centred around the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Pre-report, much of the money was
Mecardo’s Percentiles update for February 2021. Click below to view the latest report Grains Oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an important
The USDA published its February World Agriculture Supply & Demand Estimates this week and, following the large swings in January, this report seemed rather cautious.
The usual shape of the forward curve in wheat markets is what they call contango. Contango is where future prices are higher than the spot
Another week and another round of market volatility. To be fair, volatility doesn’t always mean the market moves sharply up and down, but it is
Corn has hit the highest level seen in six years, China’s demand for feedgrains seems insatiable, and managed money is adding to their bought positions,
It has been a wild old week in the ag commodities, swinging from limit down to limit up in the space of a couple of
Rising international prices are being reflected in the local market. With harvest over we haven’t seen basis improve, but even the poor cousin barley has
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