International wheat markets continue to bounce around, looking for a level as the northern hemisphere harvest approaches. Locally price spreads have ballooned, but then it
The “Boy Who Cried Wolf” feels like an increasingly apt analogy for both sides of the Iran conflict. This week alone we have heard repeated
Last week we looked at the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) in terms of wheat and corn. This week attention turns to oilseeds,
A wheat trader recently said to me, “Good luck trying to trade this market.” To describe conditions as ‘choppy’ would be an understatement of the
The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) Report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is always one of the most anticipated.
A big week in Ag markets. Sometimes, the good and the bad go hand in hand – nothing is simple, yet everything is entwined. The
While the official crop report is a little way off, the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia (GIWA) has had a crack at estimating sowing
Grain markets did an abrupt about face this week. After weeks of steadily rising, ag commodities led by wheat erased a month’s worth of gains.
Last year it felt like we were writing about tariff impacts every week, this year it’s the Middle East conflict and subsequent rising cost of
Grain markets are firmly in the grip of the weather gods right now. The US HRW crop continues to draw attention, holding at 30% good-to-excellent
Forecasting a change in planted hectares of the winter crop nationally is already difficult, now there is an energy shock to factor in as well.
As has become typical in this “new normal,” markets swung through another week of diametrically opposite headlines. Some of that volatility can be traced back
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