Corn: No Clear Trend on Argentine Corn Premiums Argentine new crop corn is currently experiencing both bullish and bearish influences. This is the main reason why premiums can't seem to find their way, as they are firm one week and weak the next. This has been the case for a couple of months.Most of the technicals/fundamentals are bullish. Argentine corn is the cheapest origin in the market, especially for destinations in Latin America, though for Asia and Africa as well. Indian corn has been competing in Asia, although the recent drop of CBOT corn has increased the competitiveness of Argentine corn there.Argentina is the only origin from South America offering corn for April, May and June shipments. From July onwards, there's a differen...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
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