The dollar weakened broadly amid concerns that U.S. monetary policy may stay loose for a while. The buck reacted to White House... »
Closing cash grain bids offered to producers as of 2:30 p.m. Dollars per bushel, delivered to Interior Iowa Country Elevators. US 2 Yellow Corn Prices were mostly 1 cent lower for a state average of 3.32. »
Physical trading picked up this week in the Mexican cash grains markets as a stronger peso and lower U.S. prices encouraged fresh buying, traders and importers said Friday. As Mexico's grains market enters its peak import season with the new local crops still two months »
Farm-gate corn prices suffered the greatest damage, shedding almost 3% of their cash-value this week, as an 11 1/4 cent decline in spot futures overran a 1 1/4 cent gain in average interior basis. "So the unusual late winter/spring continues in 2010, with markets turning mostly lower, as we »
LSN - INDIA: A few showers occurred Thursday and early today in Madhya Pradesh and northeastern Maharashtra where moisture totals will range up to 0.43 inch. The remainder of the nation was dry. Temperatures cooled temporarily Thursday in central »
LSN - CHINA: Unseasonably warm temperatures extended well into the northeastern Provinces Thursday. Highs were above freezing all the way into Heilongjiang. Highs were in the 50s and 60s in the Yellow River Basin, 60s and lower 70s near and south of the »
LSN - BRAZIL: Most of Brazil was dry Thursday. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms occurred from parts of Mato Grosso through Goias to northern Minas Gerais, and northernmost Espirito Santo. Most areas received less than 0.75 inch and coverage was under 25%. »
KSN - ARGENTINA: Mostly dry weather continued Thursday. The only significant rain fell in far northern Cordoba and northwestern Santiago del Estero where up to 0.57 inch resulted through midnight CST. High temperatures were in the 70s and lower 80s Fahrenheit south and »
Cash prices offered for most classes of U.S. grain entered at three- to-six-week lows Friday, as bearish futures markets continued to run roughshod over firm basis. Average elevator bids for winter wheat have now slipped below $4 a bushel for the first time since »
Asian wheat prices are likely to be under further downward pressure on higher global inventories and aggressive sales by Australia, said trade participants. "The latest data from the U.S. indicates that carryover »
India's rapeseed production in the crop year that began Oct. 1 is likely to be 6.25 million metric tons, an industry executive said Friday. Output in the previous crop year was 6.2 million tons, the executive said, asking not to be named. »
Ukraine exported 16.557 million metric tons of grain between the beginning of the current marketing year July 1, 2009 and March 2 this year compared with 16.307 million tons in the corresponding period in »
Chicago Board of Trade rice ended lower Thursday for the seventh time in eight sessions, extending its slide on speculative selling. March rice ended down 27 cents to $12.17 1/2 per hundredweight, and May rice closed down 28 »
Movement of U.S. cash grain onto the world export market is increasing -- helping to support ocean freight rates -- although interior trade continues at barely more than normal levels. The USDA said Thursday that 44 ocean-going grain vessels were »
Ending stocks of Canada's grain and oilseed crops at the termination of the 2010-11 crop year will be slightly higher than what was projected in January but below the level forecast for 2009-10, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's »
LSN - INDIA: Seasonably warm to hot temperatures occurred in central and southern India Tuesday while a more seasonable range of temperatures occurred in the north. The hottest conditions occurred in the south half of the nation where extremes in the »
LSN - CHINA: Freezing temperatures penetrated as far south as the lower Yangtze River Basin for the 3rd day in a row, Wednesday. Lows in the Yellow River Basin were mostly and 20s and 30s Fahrenheit while upper 20s and lower 30s occurred in the »
LSN - BRAZIL: Scattered showers and thunderstorms occurred Wednesday and early today most significantly from northeastern parts of Mato Grosso through Minas Gerais to Espirito Santo. Rainfall through Midnight CST ranged from a few hundredths of »
LSN - ARGENTINA: Mostly dry weather occurred Thursday. The only significant rain fell in far northwestern Santiago del Estero where 0.57 inch resulted through midnight CST. High temperatures were in the 70s and lower 80s Fahrenheit »
South African white corn futures rallied Thursday on the back of solid demand and a marginally weaker rand. A local trader said the market seemed to discount a bearish report by the U.S. Department of »
Spot soybean prices hovered around 1-week highs, while the value of other grains exceeded 1-month lows Thursday, pointing to a divergence in market outlook for America's major cash crops. The resilience in soybean markets was in evidence already Wednesday, as »
