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07 Feb 2019
According to this month’s Market Monitor, the outlook for AMIS crops remains generally positive, despite pockets of unfavourable weather in the southern hemisphere. While prices for wheat, maize and rice were somewhat firmer in January, markets began the [...]
14 Dec 2018
China has revised its grain production estimates. This is not an unusual move, neither for China nor for any other country. The revisions emanated from the 2017 census, the results of which have recently been released by the [...]
05 Oct 2018
For fifteen years, US farmers have responded to China’s inexorable demand for soybeans by nearly doubling their output of the oilseed, even as other countries eagerly joined the soybean production race. While the flow of US soybean sales [...]
06 Sep 2018
Current El Niño Southern Oscillation conditions are neutral. Models indicate that a weak to moderate strength El Niño may develop during the northern hemisphere 2018 fall season and be present through the northern hemisphere 2018/19 winter (60-70 percent [...]
06 Sep 2018
As the 2017/18 season gradually unfolds, it is becoming increasingly clear that agricultural markets are in rougher shape than in previous years. Several factors are at play. While policy developments such as the US-China trade dispute have loomed [...]
02 Aug 2018
Wheat harvests are wrapping up amid excessive hot and dry weather in many regions, which has sharply reduced production forecasts. These developments confirm earlier concerns that wheat markets are heading for tighter conditions in the 2018/19 marketing season, [...]