Just as Russia reaches the point of becoming the world’s largest wheat exporter, the government is proposing a move that could undermine that positioning...

Overnight trade in grain and soy futures found both sides of yesterday’s closes, but prices did not stray far in either direction. Trading seemed subdued c...

With the 2016 election looming, tonight's State of the Union address is expected to have a sustained emphasis on the president's accomplishments. One Obama...

USDA released its reports  today, which cover final production estimates for fall-harvested U.S. crops, 1 December quarterly stocks, winter wheat plan...

While the reports were slightly positive for U.S. soybeans, that does not offset the overall negative outlook for the sector in the year ahead due to sever...

Israel and Turkey are reported by Ukraine to be in discussions regarding FTAs that would cover its grains, oilseeds and agricultural equipment along with f...

When USDA lowered its production estimates for 2015 corn and soybeans today, it caught managed money funds leaning the wrong way. Wheat markets were domina...

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The projected drop in soybean imports during January and February should give the major crushers some added breathing room as they work through the massive...

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has capitalized on the national trend toward skepticism over the RFS among Republican voters, drawing the attention of the ethanol...

Even though the average trade estimate for corn production shows very little change from the November USDA report, there are a number of analysts who belie...

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After Australian Green Party leader Richard Di Natale declared that GMOs were not unsafe for humans, the Australian National Farmers’ Federation asked that...

Corn, wheat and soybean futures were steady overnight, although they turned decidedly lower once today’s session opened. Wheat and corn were down the harde...

The crop budget worksheets are of course only estimates, and virtually every producer will have a different set of numbers. Yields are always the key facto...

GOI is permitting PEC Limited, a State Trading Enterprise (STE),  to import 500,000 MT of corn for poultry feed and starch manufacturers under the tar...

While much attention has been focused on the value of the U.S. dollar since the U.S. Federal Reserve Board modified monetary policy and started to raise in...

The markets were slightly higher overnight, and those gains turned into a mini short covering rally this morning. Outside markets were also mostly higher t...

The UK’s organic food promotion entity, the Soil Association, has gone beyond its warnings against chemicals and GMOs and now castigates one of the most pr...

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A larger problem for the TPP is that even the pact’s supporters in the U.S. (the business community) have mostly endorsed it with the caveat that it needs...

Today the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services jointly released the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At the time of the...

All WASDEs are important, but some are considered more so than others. Each January issue will contain USDA/NASS’s final production estimates for fall harv...

Lower export sales were anticipated last week because of the New Year holiday. However, today’s USDA export sales report indicated net soybean export sales...

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After early weakness, most corn futures contracts closed unchanged or near thereto. Meanwhile, in the face of all the macro turmoil, soy complex futures pe...

Some in the biofuel community are lamenting that U.S. EPA slightly reduced the blend requirements for their prized fuel, but the U.S. Navy has announced pl...

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According to sunflower oil traders, decreasing export prices may lead Ukrainian producers to consider a significant response. Those prices had dropped to $...

While Argentine farmers continue to claim that they are not receiving the maximum prices exporters can pay for the goods, largely because of the large stoc...

Grain and soy futures prices were lower as the overnight session ended and again as the day session opened. However, when March corn failed to break below...

Soybean futures contracts closed up about 1 cent except for January, which gained 3.25 cents and is now at a 10.5 cent premium to March. The inverse has be...

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As a result of recent policy changes by the Argentine government, farmers are now expected to double wheat plantings in the next growing season and corn pl...

While grains were 19 percent lower on the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI), energy was down 41 percent. However, there may be a silver lining t...

It is reported that fewer than half of the maize plantings in South Africa have been completed due to the severe drought. With yellow maize prices up about...

An armed gang masquerading as honest hard-working cattle ranchers retains control of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. One accomplishment of this privat...

There is no denying that grain and soy markets have been, and continue to be, driven by a barrage of bearish supply/demand fundamentals. However, when mark...

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Rains across the dry areas in central and northeastern Brazil did materialize over the weekend with more in the forecasts. This precipitation coupled with...

Early last week at the 2015 Provincial Economic Working Conference, provincial authorities announced resolutions to continue subsidizing local corn process...

The U.S. is asking the EU to join in opposing China’s elevation next year to “Market Economy Status,” which may make antidumping cases more difficult to up...

While Argentine feed wheat is trading at $155 FOB, which makes it the world’s cheapest feed wheat/grain, most EU importers are not willing to purchase it b...

While 2015 ended with passage of a major budget and appropriations bill, the WOTUS rule and legislation regarding the mandatory labeling of GM  foods...

As they begin planning for 2016, many producers are now thinking the big bull market might have been the worst thing to happen to production agriculture.20...

The new year will likely bring the publication of a proposed rule by USDA instituting a checkoff program for organic crop producers. The proposal is contro...

Big crops along with growing grain and soybean stocks will continue to be the most important underlying fundamental factor for futures markets and cash mar...

More than a half-dozen companies have announced just this month their plans for procuring only cage-free eggs in the future. Overall, more than two dozen h...

Markets on this last trading day of 2015 acted very much as they have for quite a while. Noncommercial traders are carrying large short positions in wheat...

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Russian Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Tkachov indicated that the 104.3 MMT of grain harvested (in clean weight) covers the total 69.9 MMT required for dom...

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While it has become common practice for exporters to fill all of their storage capacity with corn during December and January in preparation for March ship...

While foodies are recounting their victories from 2015, including compelling an increasing number of major food vendors to pledge their future allegiance t...

Soybeans futures closed mostly about 4-5 cents higher in surprisingly active trade. Long grain/short soybean spreads were being unwound, which contributed...

Reports indicate some farmers are already abandoning soybeans in the drought-inflicted Brazilian states and have begun planting the fields to corn in hope...

Some studies suggest that Hershey's decision to no longer use sugar produced from sugar beets may end up causing more harm to the environment as a result...

Egypt’s GASC has made a few important changes to its wheat purchase terms that impact the acceptable levels of ergot as the country also implemented tighte...

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The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture is projecting growth in meat output during 2016-20 and targeting “above scale” farms for this expansion. This signals a...

Corn prices were helped out of the red by a strong rally in wheat and the ability of soybeans to recover from a mid-session sinking spell. Besides being a...

There are innumerable variations among commodity funds and how they are managed/ traded, but they share one very consistent characteristic.Trading by pools...

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Markets of nearly every type were lower in quiet holiday trading. Wheat tried to resist the downside pressure in corn and soybeans and was mostly successfu...

The feed wheat market in the Black Sea is under pressure in the absence of buying interest with the low pro Argentine wheat significantly more competitive...

Economics, as a discipline, has been based on several assumptions over the years, and the evolution of Big Data and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) is rapid...

While Hershey’s has always used both cane sugar and beet sugar, it will shift to using 100 percent of the former because it is non-GM. The issue is that 10...

Companies have been arguing that trade negotiators must catch up to the fact that global supply chains have become critically important. Lightening Metapho...

China proved to be a welcome addition to Washington State’s export portfolio this past fall. With carryover of the 2014 apple crop running into early Novem...

Although U.S. exports and unshipped sales of soybeans and soymeal continue to run behind the pace of a year ago, today’s USDA export sales report indicated...

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While we still have a Christmas wish list, it no longer includes things like ice skates, a Lincoln Log set and a cowboy suit. Is our current wish list a be...

Major agricultural commodity prices will be mostly flat in 2016, according to USDA, but the agency predicts that food bought for consumption at home will i...

In a market environment like this, the price direction of least resistance is usually lower. Overnight trade seemed almost at a standstill with grain and s...

Last month's feeder calf placements data points to a changing supply situation for the beef market next quarter. Similarly, feedlots' fed cattle marketings...

Soybean demand returned to Argentina last week. Six cargoes were traded FOB and CNF at levels of -9 SN FOB and 57 SN CNF, both for May/June shipment. Consi...

People should be judged on the quality of their character and not the color of their skin (ethnic/geographic origin), but apparently it is the opposite whe...

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Ukraine's domestic milling wheat prices grew slightly. Thus, traders’ raised their bids to $142-172/MT EXW in order to accumulate necessary stocks before t...

Corn futures contracts closed down three-quarters of a cent in very slow, quiet trade that moved corn prices within a narrow 3 cent range. The U.S. Energy...

The Blumberg Grain Command and Control Center has opened in Egypt and will be used to manage the government’s Shouna Development Project. It is said...

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Daily price action has become a technical affair with corn futures prices seemingly headed for a test of support near $3.63. Chicago March wheat has now fa...

India’s Solvent Extractors Association (SEA) has once again urged the government of India (GOI) to raise the tariff on refined vegoil imports. It wants an...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has reportedly invited both the food industry and anti-GMO advocates to a meeting on resolving the labeling issue. Given their i...

While Congress was busying piecing together a fiscal policy deal on the budget and taxes, the Federal Reserve moved to raise interest rates for the first t...

One of the thorniest issues involved in setting speculative position limits concerns the exemptions that commercial market users are able to receive for po...

Wheat couldn’t find any friends today and was the weakest link in the agricultural markets. Like corn, Chicago wheat futures are mired in a technical tradi...

The EU allocated 1.1 MMT of wheat export licenses last week, bringing the cumulated total to 11.4 MMT versus 13.6 MMT at the same time last year. The weekl...

The ministerial declaration emanating from the WTO’s meeting in Nairobi this past weekend is hailed by some as “historic” and by others as a disappointment...

China’s domestic soymeal inventories decreased last week to 1.32 MMT, down 150,000 MT or 10.2 percent from the previous week, largely because of two factor...

The super strong El Nino continues to be in the news on almost a daily basis. It is also starting to receive some press in agricultural markets as its impa...

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Technically,  it is cotton lint that is no longer eligible for certain crop support programs, and cottonseed could qualify as an oilseed. Thus, the Na...

While it is difficult to assess the impact of weather on Brazil's overall crop production at this point in time, it is safe to say that it will be difficul...

Yesterday’s trade was a key technical reversal in the soybean market, and that brought more follow-through buying today. Wheat chased the soybean rally, wh...

India imported 1.337 MMT of vegetable oil in November 2015 versus 1.189 MMT during the same month a year ago, which has pulled prices down. While this may...

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The major farmers and food makers in America lose when any biotechnology product approved through the regulatory process is disparaged. Meaningless Food W...

The soybean market staged a late session rally that caught the market by surprise. Its sudden reversal was strong enough to pull corn along with it and eve...

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In its decision to ban the development of biotech eggplants, the Supreme Court of the Philippines also struck down a 2002 government regulation that allowe...

The simple fact is that annual production and thus the annual renewability of grain and oilseed supplies allows for a quick production response to high pri...

USDA’s December WASDE report (released last week) indicates a slight reduction in broiler and beef production for 2015 and 2016, while it shows pork produc...

As a result of equivalency agreements, Edward Jaenicke of Penn State University found that U.S. organic food exports have increased 58 percent over the pas...

People in the conventional food business are smiling as Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. walks back from its pledge to use “local” ingredients at it...

As FOB basis continued dropping last week, a cargo of Argentine soybeans was traded by the end of the week at levels of -2 SN for full May shipment. Today...

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture’s first forecast for the 2016 grain harvest estimated it at 104 MMT. However, market experts are not as optimistic with...

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Grain and soy prices traded slightly firmer overnight, but they faded to red early in the day session and stayed that way through the close. Some of the we...

Lawmakers reached a deal early this morning on the omnibus spending bill and the tax extender package. There are a number of provisions in both that signif...

It is mid-December, a time when grain, soy and other commodity markets are anticipated to slow down with the Christmas holiday looming in 10 days. However,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) produced its first ever estimate of food-borne illnesses. While there are worse places in the world, the U.S. is a prim...

The omnibus budget bill has still not been released, although it was expected to be this afternoon. Received reports indicate that a large number of the am...

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Because of low cotton lint prices, the U.S. cotton industry is asking USDA to make cottonseed eligible for the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price L...

With the stronger U.S. dollar, weaker soybeans and corn plus the absence of any supportive news or inputs, today’s stronger wheat market seems hard to rati...

Pakistan reportedly has a large surplus of wheat that will rise considerably after the next harvest. If the government does adjust the export price, which...

USDA released its preliminary 10-year baseline projections last Friday without much narrative. Like the weekly crop condition reports during the growing se...

The markets started the week mixed in the Sunday evening session, but corn, wheat and soybean futures traded higher through most of today. There was none o...

The Paris agreement on greenhouse gas reductions is at once a marvel and a façade. It reveals the extraordinary difficulty of getting a Conference of Parti...

The Black Sea market for milling wheat remained about unchanged last week without any major trades reported. While the price in rubles is attractive to Rus...

Last week’s domestic corn prices averaged RMB 2,050/MT ($318.50/MT), a slight decline from the previous week. Local traders indicated a similar drop in the...

Indications from Capitol Hill suggest that the package could be released tomorrow, 15 December. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he remains committed to allowi...

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El Nino has become a popular topic of conversation these days, although it probably never made the news during the 1997-98 event.Paul Douglas, a nationally...

Today's grain, oilseed, cattle and hog prices...

Lower corn production in India led to higher prices for end users in early October 2015, forcing starch plants to reduce capacity with poultry operators pl...

Not one of the 12 regular appropriations bills for FY 2016 needed to be passed by 1 October 2015 under regular order was finalized. In fact, this has been...

Markets were choppy overnight with corn and wheat slightly lower as soybean futures traded 3-4  higher on light volume. That pattern changed at this m...

Word is that USDA is considering allowing cotton farmers access to not just the subsidy program the industry demanded as their key support in the 2014 Farm...

The definition of abundance forms the most significant common thread in USDA’s December WASDE as it projects large amounts of everything in its supply/dema...

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While the WTO approved $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs over the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law, which will be imposed by Canada and Mexico as...

After a listless overnight session, grain and soy futures prices began to work higher as the day session developed. The only things new were the weekly exp...

Amidst a great deal of cynicism and doubt, the U.S. Congress is on a path toward several accomplishments before departing late next week for the holidays.A...

CARIBO, the organization representing Argentina’s biodiesel producers, indicated it is seeking to prevent the U.S. Congress from converting the current bio...

322,200 MT of grains were exported from Ukrainian seaports during 30 November-6 December. This included 109,300 MT of wheat and 212,900 MT of corn. The lar...

There were few developments in either the FOB or FAS grain markets early this week in Argentina due to national holidays there. Local premiums did not even...

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest looked at data from the Centers for Disease Control and concluded that fresh produce is the cause of most foo...

The December WASDE is market neutral, and the corn and soy markets apparently came to the same conclusion. Wheat futures have been more impressed by today’...

Today’s market was a low volume affair during which it seemed corn and wheat prices hardly moved. The soy complex is where the action, or what passes for a...

Technology, Finance, Geopolitics and Demographics The big four dynamics of technology, finance, geopolitics and demographics will collide to make 2016 very...

All Congress had to do was pass the omnibus spending bill before 11 December, the date when the current short-term continuing resolution expires. Each cham...

The years-long effort to achieve a final outcome in the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) case by Canada and Mexico against the U.S. is one more example of...

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Some of the news headlines during the next week or two just might provide some of inputs for agricultural markets that  have been missing during the l...

Argentina’s incoming finance minister told the newspaper La Nation that the government wants to unify the nation’s exchange rate beginning 14 December. The...

Jordan’s grain import rules are said to be having a very serious effect on business there as can be seen by the lack of bidders in recent tenders and...

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Bulgarian feed wheat was competitive against Ukrainian last week when the EUR/USD was below 1.06. With that rate close to 1.085 today, however, the Bulgari...

After weeks of steady increases, China’s nationwide estimated soymeal inventory declined slightly last week to 1.35 MMT from 1.39 MMT the week before as fa...

The WTO today ruled that Canada and Mexico are authorized to impose more than $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs on products shipped from the United States...

While USDA will make some changes to world production numbers, It is interesting to note where the ending supplies of the three major crops are located.USD...

The climate change conference in Paris is generating some of the ridiculous along with the rational, evidenced by a Global Justice Now statement claiming t...

Markets started the week mixed in the overnight session. That tone changed significantly when markets opened at 8:30 a.m. today, and it didn’t take long fo...

The U.S. is refusing to concede any significant reforms to its agricultural export credit and food aid programs as part of the revisions to export measures...

Wheat, corn and soybean futures all started higher this morning. Funds are holding significant short positions in all three, while yesterday’s rally in the...

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Statistics Canada released its final 2015 crop production estimates today, although these numbers are still subject to revisions for the next two years. Th...

India's pulses crisis is expected to escalate as the new crop will only arrive at the market in April/May 2016, and the government will need to import addi...

New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued ministerial mandate letters to his cabinet as one of the first issues confronting the new agriculture...

One of the main reasons the ruling power in Venezuela is likely to lose this Sunday's election is the nation’s acute lack of foreign exchange to purchase i...

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Many of the new regulations stemming from the Dodd-Frank bill apply to derivative markets and their participants. Unintended consequences abound, but there...

Commodity markets jolted higher today, not because of any tightening of supply and demand but due to the technical reaction to Europe failing to meet finan...

The FDA has concluded that meat from clones and clone progeny is as safe as that from conventionally-bred animals. Now there is news from China indicating...

The corn and soy markets were buoyed by the sharply falling U.S. dollar and fund buying, but much less so than wheat. Soymeal and oil were also slightly fi...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack called a spade a spade in Brussels this week when he said that there will be no Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (...

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The overnight session saw shrinking volume, lower prices for the grains and a stronger soy complex amid less-than-satisfactory weather forecasts for west/c...

Most grain exporters in Russia  have stopped signing new contracts with Turkey, fearing introduction of a ban because of the current conflict between...

While Brazilian beans are offered at +144 SH for February, U.S. beans are traded in the low 130s SF for January and could be around 135-140 SH for February...

The Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology has not been updated in 23 years, and the Obama administration is collecting public input on...

Jordan continued to issue, cancel and reissue its wheat and barley tenders due to a lack of participation by international sellers. It is seeing some tende...

With the elimination of the export taxes and quantitative restrictions on corn, wheat and sunseed, the incentive to farmers will change substantially. Beca...

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Soybeans and soymeal held their higher prices together during the day session, but the corn market struggled to maintain green numbers. The wheat market ga...

To keep track of developing trends in the world trade of futures and options contracts, which now also include cleared swaps, the Futures Industry Associat...

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There was an announcement over the weekend regarding Argentina's agricultural product export taxes as well as new information out of India about the status...

Overnight markets were sharply steady to start this week. A rally developed with today’s openings, however, led by the soy complex with corn and wheat foll...

The City of Lights is glowing green this week, but environmentalists are charging that corporate sponsors of the UN conference on global climate change in...

Probably the most significant news from today's announcement is that the EPA has recalculated its assessment of carryover Renewable Identification Numbers...

China's average domestic corn price continued to see gains last week. Looking ahead, prices for corn byproducts should  trend upward as demand for bot...

The Black Sea milling wheat market is lower due to the strength of the U.S. dollar and slow demand. Russian origin is facing more competition from France,...

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U.S. domestic catfish producers hope that USDA's final rule implementing a more robust inspection program for fish will find the imported variety to be as...

This week's corn export sales, which were well above expectations for the second week in a row, had no impact on today’s trade. Prices were lower in light...

USDA is now predicting beef prices will increase 6.5-7.5 percent in 2015 and another 1.5-2.5 percent in 2016, while poultry and egg prices are also forecas...

There are a number of crops from Brazil to India that are being negatively impacted by weather events, which could have implications for planting decisions...

The corn arrivals at  India's major production centers have been slow as this kharif season’s crop is expected to be much smaller than last year. Ther...

Before the day session opened this morning, USDA announced a sale of 190,000 MT of soybeans to unknown for 2015/16. Although it is not necessarily due to c...

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Grain contracts basically transitioned into horizontal trading patterns prior to the release of the November WASDE on expectation of a larger harvest. Such...

With Argentina's presidential election now concluded, farmers may increase their corn planting intentions even further. Argentine corn seems to be the chea...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new effort to reduce foodborne illnesses by collecting a larger number of food samples in an effort...

According to Rusagrotrans, 1.52 MMT of grain will be shipped from Russian seaports during November, a drop from the 1.7 MMT previously forecast and less th...

China made several broad commitments to the U.S. at the recent bilateral meeting of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. However, USDA Secretary Vil...

The end goal of the conference is to forge a new international agreement on climate change that would keep global warming below 2 degrees centigrade by the...

Egypt is the world’s second-largest producer of tilapia, producing 1.3 MMT today with expectations that the total will reach 2 MMT by 2020. This grow...

USDA raised its national average soybean yield for 2015/16 to 48.3 bushels/acre and estimated U.S. soybean production to 3.981 billion bushels, both new re...

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There have been several rumors floating around in Argentina that President-elect Mauricio Macri would suspend the collection of export taxes on soybeans fo...

Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet has added another element to the complex Syrian-Middle Eastern conflict with possible ramifications for commodity...

Markets started steady to lower overnight and were decidedly lower by the time the night session closed. The election of the pro-business/agriculture candi...

With farmers in Bulgaria and Romania selling part of their wheat stocks, Bulgarian 11.5 protein milling wheat is trading at a slight discount to the Ukrain...

With the 30 November deadline looming for the U.S. EPA's decision on required volume obligations and the Fed's upcoming December meeting where an interest...

The weekend election in Argentina yielded the results that most people involved in agriculture wanted, and there seems little doubt that the current export...

Last week's soymeal inventories in China surged to a 12.8 percent gain over the previous week. After remaining well below 2014 figures for months, they wer...

The big three (the U.S., EU and Japan) are opposing a continuation of the Doha round on the basis that the negotiations have gone nowhere for 14 years. Mea...

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The big three (the U.S., EU and Japan) are opposing a continuation of the Doha round on the basis that the negotiations have gone nowhere for 14 years. Mea...

U.S. farmland values quadrupled over the last decade as record-high prices, good crop production and a generous crop insurance program created a big demand...

Argentina could be a wildcard on the corn export market, provided that crop gets sown, if the leading presidential candidate wins and fulfills his promises...

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The government of India (GOI) has finally taken steps to help cane growers and the sugar industry at large. However, some trade experts argue that the plan...

Grain and oilseed markets finished the week without a whimper. Trading ranges were relatively small, and volume was light. Meanwhile, U.S. corn export pric...

For years, Europe has considered America’s food to be of poor quality or even dangerous. While its politicians helped characterize it all as radioactive, r...

Analysts with a longer-term view of the markets are starting to put together budget worksheets for 2016 crops. The winter farm meeting season is about to e...

While today’s USDA export sales report showed exporters had good success selling U.S. soy last week, it also indicates that sales and exports of soymeal to...

Given farmers' current financial concerns, the bet by Farmland Partners, a real estate investment trust that continues to expand its portfolio of farmland...

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The story in today’s markets was there was some fund short covering as a result of one of the best weekly USDA export sales reports of this marketing year...

Just to add a level of intrigue and excitement to the GMO labeling debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today has approved the first GM anim...

A WTO arbitration panel is expected to rule on 7 December regarding the amount of retaliation that Canada and Mexico can impose on the U.S. as a result of...

Argentina's old crop wheat is already sold, and there has been no movement in the past few months. In terms of the new crop, Brazilian millers are saying t...

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Corn futures resisted the downdraft in wheat and soybean futures, trading slightly lower much of the day. However, markets did stage a minor recovery in th...

Prices on the Russian grain market changed insignificantly 9-13 November 2015, while average wheat prices were steady. However, prices expressed in USD dec...

Argentina may have lost biodiesel exports to African countries, but it clearly has been able to boost those to the U.S. as the volume has substantially inc...

Tomorrow the Federal Reserve will release the minutes of its Federal Open Market Committee (FMOC) meeting of 27-28 October. These are expected to be a prol...

Environmentalists complain that the TPP rolls back requirements by some multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and want stronger provisions on climat...

Egypt is reported to be making great effort to induce local wheat farmers to use high-yielding, quality seed stock produced by the government’s Centr...

Combined with the carry in stocks and modest imports, the total amount of U.S. corn supplies for 2015/16 is nearly as much as last year and the second-larg...

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The corn futures market may not have been a tower of strength today, but the December contract did close up 2 cents and within a half-cent of the day’s hig...

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Last week, Senators Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) and Jean Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) introduced legislation that called for the budget agreement's 8.9 percent cap...

EU wheat has to find more export demand urgently, which means that  French, German and Baltic stocks must become more competitive against those of Rus...

The WTO Ministerial next month in Nairobi may be seeing a policy breakthrough, or not. Brazil and the EU have teamed up to try and break the logjam on the...

There is no denying that global stocks have been building over the last two marketing years. However, today’s record-large supplies are only half of the st...

China Customs data indicates soybean imports during October totaled 5.53 MMT, 6.3 percent higher than the previous forecast of 5.2 MMT announced in Septemb...

The world was anxious about how all markets would respond to the attacks in Paris, but the action was actually relatively calm. Grain and oilseed markets w...

Today's grain, oilseed, cattle and hog prices.Please note: Due to the Veterans Day holiday on Wednesday, 11 November 2015, updated CFTC Commitment of Trade...

Both sides of the ethanol debate are hitting the airwaves trying to influence the outcome of the EPA’s decision regarding a proposed reduction in the...

The challenge to Europe and the U.S. in the TTIP negotiations is not how to handle tariffs, but how to manage value-based differences involving roughly two...

The Indian poultry sector needs to gear up and add value to the chicken it produces if it wants to survive the current crisis of high input costs and low o...

The weekly USDA export sales report (delayed a day because of the holiday Wednesday) showed better than expected soybean sales with wheat and corn sales in...

The current market situation begs the question: How will farmers generate cash while they wait in hope for a price rally?Prices are low (depending on your...

For centuries, the solution to prevent food spoilage and loss has involved processes such as thermal, chemical, atmospheric, etc. Now consumers are demandi...

It has become hard to find things to comment about regarding grain and soy futures markets these days. There has been no news except for the November WADSE...

At this point it is hard to see grain and soy markets staging a major rally barring a South American weather problem. Unless adverse weather intervenes in...

Today's grain, oilseed, cattle and hog prices.Please note: due to the Veterans Day Holiday on 11 November, 2015, USDA will release the updated Export Sales...

The USDA’s monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report was released on Tuesday of this week and shows offsetting changes in the r...

There is no question the Chinese government wants to reduce the country’s huge corn stocks and to cut the costs of its corn subsidy program; If China...

Warm weather and rains in some regions of Ukraine during the first week of November produced favorable effects on winter crop development in a number of re...

Argentine wheat production has been gradually dropping every year over the past decade due to the government’s intervention in the wheat market. By limitin...

Some on the political right in the U.S. have joined their ideological opposites on the left by taking decidedly “anti-American” positions on trade policy...

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The present seems to be the time that end-users are being offered a favorable purchasing opportunity by a larger than expected U.S. crop, fund selling, and...

Grain and soy futures prices fell yesterday after USDA’s bearish production and supply/demand estimates. Several new contract lows were set. General Commen...

Grain and soy futures prices fell yesterday after USDA’s bearish production and supply/demand estimates. Several new contract lows were set. General Commen...

Today’s WASDE let some air out of grain and soy markets, at least in the short term, with December Corn trading through the low end of its recent trading r...

It is amazing that in what many believed to be a very challenging crop year the U.S. national average soybean yield was a record high.  USDA Reports I...

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We cannot call the November WASDE a major surprise because the direction of most major changes was well anticipated, if not their scope; today’s futures ma...

South Africa is expected to have to import about 800,000 MT of maize this crop year to cover a drought-induced shortage. These are the first significant ma...

In a recent House Committee on Agriculture hearing covering National Security and Agriculture, key witness Ambassador John Negroponte touched upon som...

Greenpeace's latest report on biotechnology may be welcomed by those already inclined against biotech but it will be scoffed at by those already using it...

Some analysts are projecting that Chinese soybean meal inventories will trend upward as feed mills take a wait-and-see approach and soybean imports into th...

There is currently little incentive – other than the RFS mandate – to blend more ethanol if the price increases or the price of gasoline decreases in the c...

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Corn struggled with the weakness in wheat today and amid expectations that USDA might increase corn ending supplies in tomorrow’s reports; corn export insp...

Most analysts don’t expect many surprises in tomorrow’s USDA November reports; in fact, if you just go by the “average” of the trade guesses there is littl...

The weather in Bulgaria and Romania is generally favorable for winter wheat development, as well as for harvesting the remaining 10 percent of the corn cro...

There was an excellent panelist discussion that included a person in the coffee industry, one in the cocoa/chocolate industry, a finance officer for a majo...

Before the rabi planting season begins, the government of India (GOI) has announced the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the crops that are grown such as w...

The first surprise involved reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, but there were also several others related to the highway bill's funding.Two big vic...

Soybean futures stabilized today after yesterday’s significant break. There is a threat of a trucker’s strike in Brazil next week, which might have slowed...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is being sold as a bulwark against China and its supposed lopsided way of doing business. However, that count...

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Today's grain, oilseed, cattle and hog prices...

The final U.S. soy export data for 2014/15 was released yesterday, which indicated a notable increase from the previous marketing year. However, the change...

The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was released to commodity groups today along with a slew of promotion materials from USDA and the...

From any fundamental viewpoint, the current supply/demand outlook for U.S. wheat is quite bearish. The most important reason why, in our opinion, is the po...

Reasons to give TPP the Bronze Bronze is very durable, but it is an alloy rather than a pure metal like gold or silver. The TPP is a bronze standard agreem...

France’s National Association of Food Industries (ANIA) has reportedly asked the public's opinion about what they want from food processors and retailers...

Given the lack of anything else to trade on, grain and soy futures markets were mostly about weekly export sales numbers. Those numbers were disappointing,...

The overnight futures session produced slightly lower prices for wheat and corn but slightly higher prices for soybeans. The grains were under pressure fro...

Because of the lack of rains, the condition of Russia’s winter crops worsened. Thus, the volume in weak condition grew to 25 percent compared with 16 perce...

Historically, it has been the petroleum industry griping about ethanol, but now some supporters of advanced biofuels contend that the conventional part of...

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Cash basis could rebound in South American soybean markets if threatening weather develops and that stimulates world end users to purchase beyond the spot...

The Australian government has produced a paper that details a plan for ensuring the success of that nation’s farmers in the years to come. It stresses the...

Brazil's ABIOVE today raised its forecast for the country's 2016 soybean crop from 97.8 MMT to 98.6 MMT. That is less than the forecasts of USDA and the Br...

Turkey reports that this year’s wheat production will be a record 23 MMT, but imports will continue. This is because quite a bit of the crop is of lo...

U.S. wheat futures seemingly trade in a world of their own. Yesterday Chicago wheat lost 14 cents or so, and today it regained 8 cents or more. Why did tho...

The futures market’s choppy price action within relatively narrow price bands for the last several weeks is a sign that it is searching for price direction...

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The House Science Space and Technology Committee’s Oversight and Environment subcommittees today held a hearing to review the cost and benefits of the Rene...

The U.S. Senate now has two proposals with different approaches that would stop the rule promulgated by the U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers known...

The EU's 2015/16 wheat ending stocks could reach a record 20 MMT compared with  2014/15's 13.5 MMT. The balance sheet suggests that the EU should use...

The “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine” (PCRM) filed a petition with USDA that calls for an end to the distribution of processed meats through...

The national and state government policies of subsidizing deep corn processors that purchase domestic stocks helped drive up the utilization rates of that...

U.S. corn exports deviation from historic patterns has implications for what exports will be in the rest of the marketing year. Analysis of unshipped corn...

Technically speaking, there is nothing in the chart patterns of soybeans, soyoil or soymeal that would stop a limited selloff from occurring. The best thin...

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Wheat futures were firm again today and are once more pushing toward the top end of the recent range in Chicago December futures. That contract tested $5.0...

It was an interesting week in the markets for several reasons that ranged from  U.S. harvest-related developments to a policy change abroad and an une...

Largely through the bipartisan efforts of the House and Senate Ag Committees' leadership, crop insurance cuts in the two-year budget agreement will be spar...

Government officials at this week’s ninth ministerial level meeting of the India – U.S. Trade Policy Forum agreed to continue talking, but independent Indi...

India's spot corn price has stabilized over the past few days in most markets, but  today's average price was still lower than on 1 October. Meanwhile...

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Brazil’s government has approved the sale and use of higher biodiesel blends in order to address air pollution problems in big cities as well as concerns o...

Overnight price action for grain and soy futures contracts was mixed with most trading both sides in a modest way. Volume was not impressive. The day sessi...

Canadian pork producers are setting an agenda and expectations for the new Liberal Party government to be convened by Justin Trudeau, and trade is the key...

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China’s relaxation of its one-child policy has some speculating about future food demand impacts. However, there are several mitigating factors. Data Smorg...

Part of China’s October buying burst can be attributed to compensating for the slow pace of its new crop 2015/16 soybeans purchases during prior months. No...

Grain, soybean and soymeal prices weakened in moderate overnight trading, and that carried over to the day session. In the absence of fresh inputs to direc...

Japan agreed to a side letter with the U.S. under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that defines the way in which it will manage a tariff-rate quota (tra...

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Russian Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergey Levin noted in a speech today that the ministry may reconsider the size of the wheat export duty or cancel it...

It is entirely possible that  Argentina's peso could decline 25 percent from the current official exchange rate by the end of 2015. If so, that countr...

As it is Tuesday, grain and soy futures markets moved in opposite directions from Monday’s price action. Grain prices weakened, while soybeans gained back...

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We are not sure that history will single out October 2015 as being particularly notable, but it has been a very interesting month from the perspective of a...

The Indonesian government's director general of food crops indicates that imposition of a 10 percent tariff on soybeans is being considered as a way to enc...

Supporters have managed to outmaneuver opponents and get reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank back on track in the U.S. Congress.  Indonesian Dr...

Iran is intending to export about 400,000 MT of domestic wheat as local supplies are sufficient to meet demand. The government’s stockpile is reporte...

Last night the White House and congressional leadership came to terms on a budget agreement regarding a continuing resolution (CR) through the end of FY 20...

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There have been a number of factors that will contribute to a slightly better bottom line than expected, regardless of the fact that futures markets haven’...

Markets started this week on a more interesting and volatile note, led by wheat (of all things). Last Friday’s Commitment of Traders (COT) report showed th...

Although the estimated average utilization rate of the major soybean processors is trending upward, China’s soymeal inventories continue to fall as feed de...

Congress has a number of critical issues that it must address by the end of this year. Add to that the pressing problems in Puerto Rico, which is facing sh...

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) strikes again, this time concluding that processed meat is carcinogenic...

The spread between feed wheat and corn in the EU has narrowed significantly during the last few days, mainly due to the sharp rally of the USD versus the e...

Fear of imports and the inability to sell the stocks purchased by Food Corporation of India (FCI) led GOI to announce another 10 percent increase in the wh...

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Officials at the Brazilian port of Paranagua indicate 460,000 MT of soybeans were exported from there in September, up from only 136,000 MT during the same...

Today was the last trading day for options on the November soybean contract. It staged a mini-rally in the last minutes of trade and made a run at $9.00 be...

All the candidates agree that the fixed exchange rate must change eventually. Likewise, there is at least implicit recognition that the strongest sector of...

The least developed countries (LDCs) are demanding an indefinite (read permanent) exemption from having to honor any intellectual property rights to pharma...

Most would argue that a drought is the result of little or no rainfall, not exports of agricultural products to China or anywhere else on earth.CNBC carrie...

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There are a number of individuals finding a variety of things to criticize about the way food is produced, distributed and consumed. There is also another...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he plans to create a commission on farmland ownership in 2016. He classified the issue of who owns farmland as...

The U.S. dairy industry has substantially increased its exports since 2000. Moreover, global dairy demand is growing. Yet, dairy remains one of the commodi...

This week’s grain and soy futures price rally continued during the overnight session in a somewhat muted fashion and with much lower trading volume than th...

There is a general expectation that any potential production shortfalls in the eastern Corn Belt this season will be more than compensated by the western s...

Competition has intensified for South American soybean exports as the recent 20-cent collapse in basis at the U.S. Gulf has brought U.S. production back in...

Russia has been increasing its soybean production over the past several years because of high demand from domestic animal and poultry feed producers. Accor...

Whether he ascends to the speakership of the U.S. House or remains chair of its Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) will be a pow...

Today’s market action gave further signs that the seasonal price rally is underway. In the last two days, the November soybean contract has gained 14.25 ce...

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There are often days when prices for the grains and soybeans all move in the same direction, but we cannot recall one when closing price changes were as co...

The Egyptian pound was devalued by 1.2 percent last week as the country's importers still face difficulties making their payments in U.S. currency. Most ma...

The tariffs being negotiated in Miami this week on transatlantic trade are the easy part. The likelihood of removing regulatory barriers via the Transatlan...

An assessment completed for several European agricultural organizations indicates costs to the EU feed and livestock industries would increase by up to 2.8...

The centrist Liberal Party maintained its momentum and swept to power with 184 seats, 14 more than needed to gain an outright majority government. There ar...

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While the EU was able to mostly deal with its huge wheat supplies in 2014/15 through large increases in feed use and exports, it will have greater difficul...

Wheat prices are now back to the level that the world’s buyers should seriously consider adding to their volume of inventories and long-term coverage. Howe...

The soy complex seemed to have had some positive news to start the week, but that couldn’t translate into any gains for soybeans, meal or oil. A great chan...

This week the U.S. House Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing excoriating the agricultural subsidies issued by foreign governments for the harm they c...

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This is occurring as a number of anti-ethanol groups have again raised the issue of GHG emissions. One of the most strident is the Environmental Working Gr...

The Chinese producers' soymeal price averaged RMB 2,837/MT ($447.20/MT) last week. That reflected a RMB 40/MT ($6.30/MT) increase from a week ago as the es...

No trade agreement is perfect, including the new “Bronze Standard” Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) accord. Now Democrats and Republicans are highlighting j...

Markets were soft again in the Thursday evening session and started lower today. They were expecting some pre-weekend hedge selling, although farmers conti...

Pulses are becoming more of a luxury food  item than a stable protein in India as both demand and prices continue to rise. Similarly, poultry and dair...

Monday, 19 October is election day in Canada. In 2011, Harper’s Conservative Party (a.k.a. the Tories) won a majority in the House of Commons with just und...

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Corn, wheat and soybeans are certainly the major crops that receive all of the market’s attention, but the so-called minor crops also enjoyed a banner year...

Except for a few options contracts, virtually all trading of CME futures is now conducted electronically via computers. However, It seems to us that open o...

ADM announced yesterday that it plans to add capacity at its rapeseed crushing plant in Straubing, Germany to process non-GM soybeans predominately sourced...

The EU Parliament’s agriculture committee rejected a regulatory reform proposal by the EU executive that would have made the organic food sector live up to...

. In July, South Africa agreed to an annual antidumping duty-free quota of 65,000 MT for broiler meat that also allows for future growth. Today is the dead...

Trading volume was in decline by the time the day session opened except for soybeans, which were maintained by commercial support until about mid-session...

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Today's grain, oilseed, cattle and hog prices...

Geopolitical analysts argue that the U.S. rushed to conclude a deal, any deal, because the Trans-Pacific Partnership's (TPP’s) real objective is to be a co...

Ukraine's domestic prices for milling wheat and feed wheat were more or less stable (in UAH expression)  5-9 October despite the growth in their respe...

Without the leadership of the soy complex, wheat and corn futures prices struggled to stay near yesterday’s closes before finally closing lower. Wheat gave...

South American soybean producers have already exported a good volume, and the likely additional increase from Brazil and Argentina is expected to reduce de...

Saudi Arabia's grain imports for 2015/16 are expected to rise by about 1 MMT to 17.4 MMT. This includes 8.5 MMT of barley, 3.6 MMT of corn, 3.8 MMT of whea...

The slowdown in China's economy is clearly having a significant impact on 2015/16 global soybean demand as growth in its soybean imports is expected to be...

A number of situations could erupt in unpredictable, serious ways that could interfere with world grain and soy trade flows and have significant effect on...

The European Court of Justice’s ruling against the safe harbor agreement on data transfers across the Atlantic is being hailed by European nationalists. Ma...

It should be noted that the reported eight-chapter text of the agreement has not been publicly released yet, so a reasonable, pragmatic politician can be e...

Price action in the overnight session was mixed with soybeans trading a few cents higher, wheat just above unchanged and corn slightly lower. Those results...

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Three years of successive large agricultural crops coupled with slower economic growth and lower subsidies from Brussels have farmers in Europe complaining...

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Based on conversations with traders this past week, the average landed prices in China for U.S. DDGS have been RMB 1,400-1,450/MT ($221.20-229.10/MT). They...

U.S. farmers will not be the only producers looking for ways to hold their financial statements together as it is becoming a worldwide problem. Everyone el...

Heretofore, the one primary argument has been that exports of crude oil would increase the domestic price of oil. However, export advocates argue (and the...

The market in Bulgaria and Romania is slightly more active due to the price rally of Russian and Ukrainian wheat. Romania sold a cargo to Egypt’s GASC, and...

The November soybean contract was up as much as 8-9 early in the day with a high of $8.94½. $8.97-9.00 is still technical resistance, and the market hasn’t...

Today's USDA numbers were generally slightly bearish as ending supplies for wheat, corn and soybeans all came in above the range of pre-report estimates. A...

The problem now for the Republicans is that it appears possible that no one single candidate can unite their conference and be elected speaker with at leas...

There have been mixed reactions in India regarding the finalization of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. While it is still to be rat...

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It is now highly unlikely we will see any major changes to the U.S. corn and soybean production estimates in future reports. The early and rapid pace of th...

USDA is now releasing details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and has confirmed that Japan agreed to eliminate its tariffs on soyoil in si...

The controversy over inserting sustainability considerations into the five-year update of the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans may have just come t...

Prices sagged throughout the day session due as much or more to an absence of buying interest as to aggressive selling. Funds were on the sell side across...

While it is agreed that derivative markets need speculators to provide enough trading volume and market liquidity so that those with certain vested interes...

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WTO Director General Roberto Azevêdo congratulated the 12 countries completing agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) even though he may wish tha...

Loss Avoidance, Volatility and Food Security Volatility is the market seeking supply and demand balance, but the market lacks trust when it comes to balanc...

As Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food prepares to sign a Memorandum of Understanding that will establish the volumes of grain allowed for expor...

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South American soybean exporters are expressing some concern about potentially limiting supplies for the February-March period due to possible delays in pl...

With upward momentum from yesterday’s strong performance still in play, grain and soy prices were firmer again during the overnight session. Prices across...

The conclusion of a transpacific trade agreement has prompted some members of the European Parliament to anxiously call for expediting completion of the tr...

While a majority of EU member countries have opted out of allowing their farmers to produce biotech crops approved for production within the union, Romania...

It is reported in the local trade that Egypt’s GASC may change the minimum protein level on its wheat tenders from the current requirement of 12 perc...

There are doubts that continued pump priming by central banks will yield the level of stimulative effect that is needed and desired. Someone needs to produ...

Several factors have helped support this week’s higher grain and soy prices, but it will be whatever tone is set by this Friday’s WASDE that will determine...

The long-term CR is likely to be based on the budget resolution, and the cuts to mandatory spending are likely to be in any such legislation that appears i...

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USDA’s October WASDE with fresh U.S. corn and soybean production estimates compiled in the midst of the harvest is always fun. This year’s edition, which i...

OilseedsThe sunflower seed harvest is about 85 percent completed in Romania and Bulgaria, and the price has rallied approximately $50 during the past three...

The sunflower seed harvest is about 85 percent completed in Romania and Bulgaria, and the price has rallied approximately $50 during the past three weeks...

The one thing that seems to be clear is that farmers simply aren’t selling very much of this year’s production off the combine. This reluctance to sell als...

Following the RMB 240/MT decrease in the last week of September, the average domestic corn prices in both northern and southern China have been steadily fa...

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World financial markets were very strong to start this week, and that strength spilled over into energy and agricultural commodity markets. Expectations we...

Trade ministers highlighted the precedent this accord sets for future agreements as well as for the Pacific region. Unmentioned but more important at this...

In addition to stronger demand, dairy producers are enjoying good margins. This is despite milk prices being down from previous years and exports starting...

The sharply lower opening in the financial markets spilled instantly over into the agricultural markets. However, they all started to firm as U.S. financia...

India’s food industry is facing a period of uncertainty, especially as the FSSAI is unable to decide if it should set standards for products or ingredients...

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U.S. farmers are starting to face the ugly reality that $3.50-4.00 corn, $8.50-9.00 soybeans and $5.00 wheat simply don’t work, even with big yields. Like...

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In June 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) are not generally recognized as safe (GRAS). How...

While Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov is trying to reduce the financial burdens on the state, including privatizing assets, the agriculture ministr...

India’s food industry is facing a period of uncertainty, especially as the FSSAI is unable to decide if it should set standards for products or ingredients...

It is safe to say that the soft global economy and currency gyrations will have some impact on world demand. However, predicting exactly how that happens a...

As the volume of India's vegoil imports has continued to rise in recent years with palm oil the most in demand, another oil accounts for a substantial shar...

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Today’s grain and soy futures trade appeared to be mostly a continuation of the market’s reaction to yesterday’s stocks and small grains reports. Wheat's g...

The House of Representatives passed the mandatory livestock price reporting reauthorization this week. The Senate had already approved the bill, which cont...

The results from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial in Atlanta will become clear shortly, but the trade-offs are at hand. Sense not Crop Short...

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture lowered its 2015 grain production forecast from 100-103 MMT to 100-101 MMT. The export volume is estimated at 30 MMT. R...

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There are some parallels to be drawn between the predicament that debt-laden commodity businesses find themselves in and our personal households. Although...

Despite greater European suspicion of sophisticated financial instruments, Brussels needs tools to help farmers manage risk that go beyond the limits of su...

Today’s lower-than-expected grain and soybean stocks may temper the bears’ enthusiasm. By the same token, however, bulls will have great difficulty using t...

An interesting study  released by AACREA this past week seems to conclude that it will be difficult for Argentine farmers to financially break even th...

Last Thursday's announcement regarding China's agreement to purchase 13.18 MMT of U.S. soybeans was well received by the market. More recent reports, thoug...

Corn futures contracts traded quietly in a range of less than 5 cents before closing mostly higher by 2 cents or less. This seems to suggest that traders t...