Grains & Oilseeds

Recent Articles

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Market Comment

Mixed outcomes for the ag market

Give or take a few cents, the US wheat market close last night was relatively unchanged for the week. Some supportive news, including better-than-expected new

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Market Analysis

Grain options as a hedging tool

After spending much of the three months over harvest doing very little, volatility is back in the wheat market. Canola has been on a rollercoaster

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Market Comment

The hits keep coming

The fact that the wheat market has been relatively unchanged week on week doesn’t imply the market has been without volatility. After a slightly bearish

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Market Comment

The art of the deal

Another tumultuous week in wheat – and indeed commodities and stocks as a whole. President Trump rolled out 25% broad-based tariffs on Canada and Mexico

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Market Comment

Wheat slides on tariff talk

The wheat market has been steadily sold off this week as firstly the cold weather across the US and Russia has eased and investors returned

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Market Comment

Weather market jitters

The start of the week saw CBOT wheat jump on possible freezing weather in the US Plains and Central Russia. The move higher was largely

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Market Analysis

Waiting for volatility

With all the talk of tariffs and trade disruptions, grain prices have remained remarkably steady. Canola has been volatile, but it has been like a

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Market Comment

A new world order?

The US President came out swinging this week with renewed enthusiasm for tariffs. This time, the targets were steel and aluminium imports with Australia right

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