Currency has firmed in anticipation of a Tory victory in the election this coming week; Better weather in France, has allowed their soft wheat planting to be reported to have improved to 83%; BAGE reported positive progress in the Argentine planting progress; China announced that it will drop tariffs on US soya beans and pork imports; A WW1 German battleship has been discovered off the coast of the Falkland Islands;
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The physical price remains pretty stable day to day, with currency and political developments being the main drivers in longer term, though the actual price level depends on the north-south distance from Hampshire. La Niña is being blamed for the dry conditions in Argentina as well as Brazil’s wet Mato Grosso state, which is delaying its harvest. About half of the UK’s 900 KFC outlets have no chicken. Not so finger likin good!