Despite the usual lack of important fresh inputs for markets to digest, there is a seasonal trend for grain and soy futures prices to move slowly and modestly higher during this month and early March. However, that has not worked out so far this year.February is typically a period during most annual agricultural crop and market cycles when fundamental market-moving inputs are scarce. Supplies of grains and oilseeds are reasonably well known, and demand trends for the current crop year are in place. Southern Hemisphere harvests are usually underway, and South American production estimates have become well defined. Spring planting in the Northern Hemisphere is still six-eight weeks away. Winter wheat remains in dormancy, and harvesting will n...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Biofuels, Equities, Energy, Asia