
Ukraine/Russia tension & the impact on grain markets
Ukraine has long been considered the “Breadbasket of Europe”, and is a significant source of wheat and feedgrains in global trade. Rising tensions with Russia

Ukraine has long been considered the “Breadbasket of Europe”, and is a significant source of wheat and feedgrains in global trade. Rising tensions with Russia

We know there is plenty of feed grain around this year. The wet harvest has downgraded plenty of wheat, to go with what is expected

When Russia invaded Ukraine, global outrage meant that the action would not go unpunished. While Ukraine begged for no-fly zones and military aid, the rest

One week in the grain market can be a really long time. At the start of the week, as the market was digesting the WASDE

Mecardo’s Percentiles update for January 2022. Click below to view the latest report Grains Oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an important

This week the wheat market has ground lower as first, the anticipation of the Jan WASDE report saw market participants take to the sidelines, and

A raft of report releases by the USDA have done little to stir up grain and oilseed markets. Changes to forecasts were largely in line

The massive winter crop harvest is close to finished, with a few very heavy delivery weeks in December and early January breaking the back of

The wheat market began the new year with more of a stagger than any kind of billion-dollar strut. We suspect the losses in market prices

We’ve seen that US grain growers are planting more soybeans this year, at the expense of corn and wheat. Last week Statistic Canada released their

During the 2015/16 harvest prices available for selling grain didn’t stack up quite as well as in previous years. In this analysis, the first of

We finally saw a significant rally in wheat prices last week, and while it didn’t last, it did provide the opportunity for growers who used
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