The Sterling has been relatively stable; Friday saw the long-anticipated January WASDE report from the USDA; The soya market is still focused on the phase one trade deal which should be signed this week; The demand for soya meal, has led to a small reduction in the price of soya oil; Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier made a great first impression on a 5-week internship with NASA;
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Currency has remained remarkedly stable since the Brexit deadline was postponed again; The price of UK wheat remained firm this week; New crop planting is still only 50% complete; French wheat plantings have made little further progress, mirroring the UK; The Russian Agriculture ministry downgraded the 2019 crop to 75 Mln T; The US announced that it would remove harsh import tariffs against many Chinese imports.
Sterling has remained relatively stable; Wheat prices in the UK remain firm; Last week saw a few drier days; Agriculture and farming are taking huge leaps forward using technology to improve the way we work; Uncertainty in the US/China trade deal has again sent the Chinese buyers looking to buy soya beans from Brazil.
The UK market remains focused on new crop drilling concerns that next year there will be a smaller crop; As a result prices have firmed and finished the week at £152/T on the May 19 contract; The weather concerns also continue in the EU; The political focus remains on the Election; The Black sea is experiencing its own weather concerns with temperatures expected to drop sharply.
The USDA report out this week could have caused some market excitement but was little changed from the previous report; The UK crop is still behind on planting as the wet weather is giving little chance to catch up; Unfortunately for the UK the unknowns of our politics/currency and Brexit are currently enough to mean we are not seeing much benefit from this.
Defra and the trade are now in agreement that UK wheat supply and demand are in relative balance assuming both exports and imports also remain in balance. At the Jack Daniels distillery at Lynchburg, Tennessee they have a unique way of celebrating Christmas – they build the Jack Daniels Christmas Barrel Tree. Merry Christmas!
All wheat markets are weak, reflecting ample global stocks and pressured by forecasts of larger Canadian and Australian harvests. Brazil and Argentina are also currently busy harvesting, so the world is not short of wheat. Back in the 18th century, a paper was needed in order to prove that cocks are incapable of laying eggs...
The lack of price action recently has been so dull, that the grain trade are acting like door-to-door salesmen in their efforts to try to create a market. They say anything is possible in the USA... A microwaved egg has been the subject of an American lawsuit where a customer bit into an egg resulting in burns and hearing loss due to the massive ‘pop’.