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Bearish News Undermines Cash Wheat
Wed Sep 8, 2010 07:55 PM CDT
A wave of selling in futures Wednesday took all three cash wheat indexes down sharply.
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Parsing Pre-report Guesses
Wed Sep 8, 2010 10:59 AM CDT
The wire services have finished their surveys of analysts' yield and production guesses ahead of the Friday USDA reports, and DTN Premium Service providers are giving their clients their own spins.
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More Wheat in Canada
Wed Sep 8, 2010 08:02 AM CDT
There was about a million tons more wheat in storage at the end of July in Canada than analysts had surmised -- a bearish surprise in this morning's Stats Canada stocks report.
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Cash Indexes See Mixed Start
Wed Sep 8, 2010 06:24 AM CDT
A fairly quiet start to this short week of trade Tuesday, taking the DTN corn and soybean indexes higher, the wheat indexes lower.
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Regional Storage Issues
Tue Sep 7, 2010 09:51 AM CDT
In a recent poll on DTN, nearly 40 percent of those responding indicated they expect to have room to store 75 to 100 percent of this year's fall harvest, and another 22 percent said they will have room for at least half their crop; about 25 percent have room for no more than 1/4 of the crop.
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Big Weekly Gains for Cash Corn, Wheat
Tue Sep 7, 2010 06:26 AM CDT
The DTN Cash Wheat indexes leaped above $6 to close out the week ahead of the Labor Day holiday, and the corn index once again topped $4.
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Informa: Sep Corn 164.8 bpa, Beans 44.1 bpa
Fri Sep 3, 2010 10:41 AM CDT
Informa Economics told clients Friday it expects USDA will peg corn production in September at 164.8 bushels per acre, and soybeans at 44.1 bpa, and it also released a "mostly likely final estimate" of the crop size and yield for corn.
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Some Perspective on Russian Wheat Losses
Fri Sep 3, 2010 09:50 AM CDT
Friday's trade started out with Chicago Dec wheat up another dime, and the Financial Times headline reads "Fears grow over food supply."
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Allendale: Corn 162.3 bpa, Beans, 43.21
Fri Sep 3, 2010 07:48 AM CDT
The next round of pre-report guesses comes out today, with Allendale now and Informa in a few hours.
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Modest Advances for Cash Grain Bids
Fri Sep 3, 2010 06:16 AM CDT
Merchandisers added a few cents to bids on Thursday, while the markets took on a here-comes-the-holiday-weekend feel.
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Asia Outlook -- Big Picture
Thu Sep 2, 2010 02:38 PM CDT
Countries in Asia have been the engine pulling the rest of the world through the muck of the economic downturn, but their torque may be tested in the next few months.
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Another Giant Step in Cash Wheat Bids
Thu Sep 2, 2010 06:08 AM CDT
More evidence of the strength of export demand, this time in the form of some big sales to Egypt, triggered increases in cash wheat prices Wednesday.
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Here They Come
Wed Sep 1, 2010 03:44 PM CDT
It's that time of the month -- pre-report production and yield estimates are popping up, ahead of USDA's September 10 crop production and supply and demand reports.
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Quick Look in the Rearview Mirror
Wed Sep 1, 2010 09:32 AM CDT
Ranges of some of the DTN cash indexes in August confirm the impression that HRW wheat was the wild one.
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Cash Indexes Fall Back
Wed Sep 1, 2010 06:17 AM CDT
Merchandisers pulled bids for wheat and soybeans lower Tuesday, passing most of the board's losses on to farmers.
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Corn Yield Speculations, Early Maturity
Tue Aug 31, 2010 09:51 AM CDT
Over half the producers responding to a DTN poll say their corn is likely to mature 2 weeks earlier than normal, and another 21 percent say it's a week early.
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FF Survey Shows Increased Acres in 2011
Tue Aug 31, 2010 08:13 AM CDT
Farmers intend to increase acreage of major crops next year, according to a survey conducted by Farm Futures Magazine, and released this morning at the start of the annual Farm Progress show.
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Cash Indexes Finish Mixed Monday
Tue Aug 31, 2010 06:10 AM CDT
Cash wheat indexes gained more ground Monday on corn, and the soybean index fell back from the $10 mark.
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Early Corn Yields Talk
Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:34 PM CDT
And that's really all we have at this point -- talk. Depending on who is looking, it seems as if we are about to have a very great or a very disappointing corn harvest.
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Cash Beans, Wheat Gain on Corn
Mon Aug 30, 2010 06:09 AM CDT
Cash corn bids finished up last week right where they'd started, while bids for soybeans and wheat showed some gains.
