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Australia Wheat Quality Slumps In Bittersweet Harvest

By Bruce Hextall January 4, 2011

Up to half of Australia’s current wheat harvest could be downgraded to animal feed or low-grade milling grain, raising concerns for a severe global shortage of higher-quality wheat and marring the nation’s biggest crop in eight years. Crop analysts and farmers told Reuters that up to 50 per cent of the 2010-11 crop would be

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Chart Ends Year As A Hockey Stick

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 23, 2010

Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada platform are definitely much stronger exiting 2010 than they were going into the year. Anyone making a “Top 10” list of the reasons for that strength would likely cite the adverse weather conditions across the Canadian Prairies first and foremost, but strong demand, activity in outside markets

Grain Markets, Livestock

U.S. Fed Cattle Supply At Three-Year High

By Bob Burgdorfer December 23, 2010

The U.S. feedlot cattle supply on Dec. 1 was the largest for that date in three years as profitable cattle prices and poor pastures had producers rushing young cattle into feedlots rather than into breeding herds, analysts said Dec. 17. The U.S. Agriculture Department said there were 11.609 million cattle in feedlots on Dec. 1,

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Firm Demand, Tight Supply Support Canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 16, 2010

The ICE Futures Canada canola market hit some fresh contract highs during the week ended Dec. 10, but also ran into profit-taking that limited the upside. While market participants were still digesting the larger-than-expected production numbers put out by Statistics Canada on Dec. 3, those supplies are also being met with some pretty solid demand

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

By Carey Gillam December 16, 2010

U.S. wheat experts are growing increasingly concerned about the new winter wheat crop in parts of top producer Kansas and other Plains states, as persistently dry conditions erode production potential. Drought conditions are plaguing the entire western third of Kansas, which routinely is the top U.S. wheat-growing state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

It’s Your Business

By MarketsFarm Team December 9, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Canada trading platform posted some modest advances during the week ended Dec. 3, with some of the upward momentum coming from the general strength displayed by the outside oilseed markets. CBOT soybean and soyoil values both posted some significant advances on the week with new contract highs also established in

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Little Rain Coming To Dry U.S. Plains Wheat Region

December 9, 2010

CHICAGO/REUTERS The dry U.S. Plains Hard Red Winter wheat crop will receive little rain over the next week, adding more stress to young plants ahead of winter, a forecaster said Dec. 6. Very light rains of a trace to a few hundredths of an inch were expected for Dec. 7, then the Plains will be

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Traders Begin To Focus On Wheat Prospects For 2011

By MarketsFarm Team December 2, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Canada trading platform were little changed during the week ended November 26. Some fractional advances were seen in the nearby contracts while the more deferred values experienced some minor losses. The general upward momentum seen in CBOT soybean and soyoil values provided a firm floor for canola, as did the

Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Commodity Price Pressure Made In China

By MarketsFarm Team November 25, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some price weakness during the week ended Nov. 19, but were well off the lows established. The continued liquidation of long positions by nervous speculative fund account holders generated the declines. That selling was again inspired by a knee-jerk reaction to news that the Chinese

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Parched Hard Red Wheat Belt In Western U.S. Looks For Rain

November 25, 2010

CHICAGO/REUTERS Light rain hit the eastern areas of the U.S. Hard Red Winter wheat belt Nov. 17 but the parched western region stayed dry, raising concern the crop will not be well established before winter, a forecaster said. “It will stay unfavourably dry over a good percentage of the crop belt, 40 per cent or

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Australia Wheat Quality Slumps In Bittersweet Harvest

Canola Chart Ends Year As A Hockey Stick

U.S. Fed Cattle Supply At Three-Year High

Firm Demand, Tight Supply Support Canola

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

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Little Rain Coming To Dry U.S. Plains Wheat Region

Traders Begin To Focus On Wheat Prospects For 2011

Commodity Price Pressure Made In China

Parched Hard Red Wheat Belt In Western U.S. Looks For Rain

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