Milling Wheat Wheat prices have trended higher in the past two weeks with multiple storylines helping push values higher. First, better-than-expected Chinese economic data and the Middle Kingdom’s purchases of U.S. SRW wheat and French wheat have helped provide a more positive backdrop to the world demand outlook. Additionally, conflict in the Middle East is reviving food scarcity and security fears in the region while concerns over weather for the U.S. winter wheat crop is casting doubts on 2024 supplies. Finally, estimates of the Russian wheat crop are being shaved back due to declining prospects for the key spring wheat producing regions. EU wheat prices were up €9-10/MT last week and are higher again to start th...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
In agriculture and food processing, we think a lot about infrastructure: transportation and storage, processing and packaging, distribution and delivery. It is a physical system of roads, railroads, and rivers; concrete and steel storage; processing plants, warehouses, and machinery; and, event...
Key Takeaways: The Panama Canal’s draft restrictions and decreasing rainfall outlook are driving big moves in dry bulk markets this week. Panamax markets are sharply lower as the economics of moving freight across the Canal are deteriorating rapidly, leading to support in Supramax vessels...
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