It was an interesting week for market news versus market action. There were actually numerous, somewhat bullish news stories that generated little in the way of bullish market reaction, including the following:

Wheat markets continue to absorb news of further declines in volume and quality by moving lower. Frost in West Australia early this week has created more crop losses than expected. It is very early in the “recovery” process to determine how much damage occurred. That really can’t happen until harvest gets underway, but reports from trustworthy sources indicate canola was badly damaged. There will be wheat losses as well, but we’re told that the crop across the frost-hit region was in varying degrees of matu...