Russia blows up a Ukrainian grain port. Grain futures moved sharply higher overnight, with wheat futures gaining $0.50 at one time as Russia destroyed one of Ukraine’s grain export ports of Mykolaiv, circumventing the potential of significant grain exports leaving Ukraine in any hyped safe passage corridor. This port handles just over 1 MMTs of…
Grains starting the last day of the week on the defensive. Grain futures are mostly lowered to start the last day of the week, with China on Dragon Boat Holiday, this is creating no follow-through buying interest to Thursday’s strong soybean close. This past week’s sharp price decline in wheat and corn is tied to…
Turn-around Tuesday on Wednesday. Grain futures stabilized overnight after yesterday’s last day of the month, heavy liquidation on the renewed story of Pres. Putin’s ongoing conversation of allowing grain exports out of Ukraine providing sanctions against Russia are lifted. Putin continues to press that he’s not the bad guy for the soaring world food values…
Putin is back to making headlines. Grain futures overnight had soybean futures pressing to new recovery highs to near $17 50 before retreating, while wheat futures dropped sharply from a steady start with Pres. Putin again continues to play with the world grain trade by keeping the possibility of Ukrainian grain flows alive. The Kremlin…
Russia and NATO are at impasse on the food corridor. Grain futures put in a mixed performance overnight as the Ukrainian food export corridor continues to be the topic. Still, Putin said any Ukraine food exports are tied to NATO dropping their economic sanctions against Russia. This has been their stance for the past two…
Ukraine corridor 3.0 is being tried. Grain futures pushed lower again overnight, as for the third time again grain futures reacted to the possibility of Russia opening up humanitarian corridors out of Ukraine’s black sea ports. The current negotiations are to have exports allowed out of Odessa if Turkey would de-mine the port and act…
Continued hopes of a Ukraine grain corridor drive prices lower. Grain prices are sharply lower again this morning, on follow-through from yesterday’s sharp break triggered by conversations at the Davos meeting that is encouraging the prospects of opening up Ukrainian exports through exports. New headlines overnight had the algorithm machines in high sell mode as…
Wheat prices lift overnight trade. Grain futures had wheat firm overnight while corn and soybeans traded two-sided. Yesterday’s NASS crop progress data had 72% of the corn planted with 50% of the soybeans in the ground. Only 49% of the spring wheat crop was seated through Sunday. Spring wheat was the price leader overnight, as…
