Grains & Oilseeds

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Market Analysis

Percentiles – May 2021

Mecardo’s Percentiles update for May 2021. Click below to view the latest report Grains Oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an important

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Market Analysis

WASDE brings prices back into line

The latest United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) brought the bull market to a halt last week. The

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Market Comment

Bulls are getting hungry

In light of the latest reasonably bearish WASDE report, the ag commodities have had a sharp correction. The start of the so-called ‘big data week’

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Market Comment

Quick trip around the World

In the not so distant past, grain trading houses put huge emphasis on crop condition analytics, reports from ‘boots on the ground’ and anything else

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Market Comment

V is for Volatility

May we live in interesting times – to paraphrase an ancient Chinese curse – seems particularly apt in commodity markets right now. The very strong

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Market Analysis

Prices rising but basis falling

Low old crop stocks and uncertainty surrounding the potential of new season global wheat and corn stocks have seen hikes in international wheat futures over

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