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Canola premium to swing some hectares
We recently had a query which came across the desk, (so to speak – in an email to be exact), which asked if canola would
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February 24, 2026
We recently had a query which came across the desk, (so to speak – in an email to be exact), which asked if canola would
With a truncated trading week due to the US Presidents Day public holiday, combined with much of Asia closed for Lunar New Year celebrations, you
With the feeding sector growing in both beef and lamb industries, along with the traditional large consumers, chicken and pork, there has never been as
Another mostly quiet week in the wheat pits. The Feb USDA and WASDE report barely rated a mention, other than raising US ending stocks and
The Australian dollar relative to the US dollar has lifted to levels not seen since early 2023, and not sustained since early 2022. We all
This weeks commentary is more about macro-economics and geopolitics that anything directly wheat oriented. Having climbed to over 0.70USc, the AUD has tipped over in
The final harvest reports are in, with further updates likely to offer minimal changes. Western Australia has received the promised bumper crop, while receivals on
It has felt like a relatively quiet week in global markets — not entirely surprising given the time of year, or perhaps because other headlines
The global canola trade had another significant shift last week with China reducing tariffs on Canadian canola. The response in the Canadian markets was strongly
“May you live in interesting times” is a phrase often attributed to a 19th-century House of Commons speech. While it reads like a vague blessing,
You would think that with disasters at the top and the bottom of the east coast wiping out feed, and again instigating hay drives, the
2026 has opened with a familiar driver dominating the headlines: geopolitics. Forget Russia, Venezuela or Greenland, developments in Iran arguably carry far greater implications for
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