Grains & Oilseeds

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Market Comment

Bears in the new crop

This week has been all about the impending Northern Hemisphere harvest hitting the pipelines. Despite a raft of supportive news, the noise was drowned out

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Market Analysis

Canola wild ride continues

In the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) released last month global canola and rapeseed production was forecast to remain at the upper end

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Market Comment

India a demand dark horse

This week has seen the wheat market jump on cuts to Russian production, only to give most of the gains back as rains appeared in

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Market Comment

Jack tours Russia

To start the week, the wheat market got a very nice little push courtesy of Russian frosts, a bullish USDA report and technical short covering.

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Market Analysis

Benign May WASDE

It’s May and the new season World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is out. The WASDE

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Market Comment

Weather bingo card

After the relatively quiet last few months where the ag commodity markets have drift-ed lower, the establishment of the weather market has seen a welcome

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Market Comment

Time to cut the BOM some slack

Another week, another very mixed result. Last week, Middle Eastern politics drew the market’s attention, this week it’s all about the weather. Russia looked to

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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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