Articles By Mark Shenk
Investors in the US agricultural sector slashed short positions in all major markets, reducing their net short positions in the week to Tuesday April 23, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday April 26.
The US Department of Agriculture’s attaché in Canada said that the country’s production of principal grains (wheat, oats, barley, corn) is expected to jump by 4.9% to 61.4 million tonnes...
US weekly net sales of corn totaled 1,299,900 tonnes for the 2023-2024 crop year in the week ended April 18, up “noticeably” from the previous week but down by 74% from the prior four-week average...
US weekly net sales of wheat for the 2023-2024 crop year totaled 82,000 tonnes in the week to April 18, down from both the previous week and the prior four-week average...
US corn and soybean planting advanced at a steady clip in the week to Sunday April 21, surpassing their five-year averages and exceeding analysts’ expectations...
Export inspections of US corn increased by 19.95% to 1,623,532 tonnes in the week to Thursday April 18, up from 1,353,515 tonnes in the previous week...
Export inspections of US wheat declined by 27.39% to 450,275 tonnes during the week to Thursday April 18 from 620,139 tonnes the previous week...
Investors in US soybean and corn contracts, as well as two of three wheat contracts, accumulated shorts, bolstering their net...
US weekly corn net sales totaled 501,200 tonnes for the 2023-2024 crop year in the week ended April 11, up by 54% from the previous week but...
US weekly wheat net sales reductions for the 2023-2024 crop year totaled 93,600 tonnes in the week to April 11, down from both the previous week and the prior four-week average, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday April 18.
US winter wheat conditions remained in much better shape than at the same point last year, while corn and soybean planting advanced at a steady pace in the week to Sunday April 14...
Export inspections of US corn decreased by 7.6% to 1,331,683 tonnes in the week ended Thursday April 11, down from 1,442,816 tonnes in the previous week...
Export inspections of US wheat increased by 6.7% to 551,278 tonnes during the week to Thursday April 11, up from 516,835 tonnes the previous week...
Managed money investors in the US soybean and corn contracts, as well as one of three wheat contracts, slightly increased their net short positions in the week to Tuesday April 9...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) increased its 2023-2024 US ending stocks estimates for wheat and the output forecast was left unchanged, while global ending stocks...
US weekly net sales of wheat for the 2023-2024 crop year totaled 80,700 tonnes in the week to April 4...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s influential World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (Wasde) report update for April was expected to increase estimates for 2023-2024 US ending stocks while leaving global ending stock estimates unchanged, according to industry participants polled by Fastmarkets.
Export inspections of US wheat decreased by 12.6% to 497,534 tonnes in the week to Thursday April 4, down from 569,147 tonnes the previous week, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released on April 8.
Investors in US corn, soybean and one of three wheat contracts accumulated short positions in the week to Tuesday April 2, helping bolster the net short in the three markets, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed late Friday.
The US Department of Agriculture’s attaché in Turkey reported that it expects that the country’s wheat and barley production will be unchanged in the 2024-2025 marketing year...