SPREADS Jan crush trades down to 98c/bu, under 1.00c/bu, around 40c off its highs. Oilshare trades down to 32.36% in a correction. Dec/March corn trades into 6 1/2c from 7c while the Dec/Dec inverse falls to 9 1/2c from 15 1/2c. Dec/March wheat trades from 4 1/2c carry to 5 1/2c. Jan/March bean spread trades out to 2c carry from 1/2c. Dec /March meal inverse trades down to $2.30 from $4.00. PALM OIL Feb. palm oil down 75 ringgits closing at 3,251 ringgit/mt. Cash offers were down $10/mt. SGS forecasts palm oil exports for Oct. 2020 at 1.714 mmt of product, up 6.9% vs. Sep. exports. NEWS Stocks are up 300 pts. as the promise of more vaccines appears ready to be approved. ...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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