Grains & Oilseeds

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Market Comment

US Tariff’s back on the agenda

Another interesting week in global markets and politics. After making oddly specific threats of tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico in Trump’s first few hours

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Market Analysis

Why the GM discount?

We’ve had a couple of queries on the canola market structure, and why GM canola, in particular, is positioned where it is. As always, it’s

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Market Comment

Trade flows on the move?

The news this week has been dominated by the incoming 47th US President. For those waiting for a sign of things to come, didn’t have

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Biofuel storage and crops
Market Analysis

Corn stocks tighten further

When the new-season World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report was released back in May, the corn supply forecast was looking good, with a

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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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