Ah the joys of trading agriculture 🙂 Dow Jones – CBOT corn futures are firmly planted in negative territory, as the market extracts weather premium from prices, analysts say.
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Ah the joys of trading agriculture 🙂 Dow Jones – CBOT corn futures are firmly planted in negative territory, as the market extracts weather premium from prices, analysts say.
And a very happy 420 day to all our friends out there who enjoy puffing the reefer from time to time. Any threat of “Peak Pot” on the horizon, or has it been spared from the biofuels fiasco? Open Positions Date Position Qty Month/Yr Contract Strike Call/Put Entry Price Last Price Profit/Loss 04/15/08 Long 2 […]
Well, when it hits the front page of your local newspaper, it’s probably time to sell. It will be interesting to see where prices go this week. For now, the line is still going from the “lower left to the upper right”, as Dennis Gartman likes to say. Sacramento Bee: Panic over rice prices hits […]
Another good one from Agora – courtesy of their 5 Minute Forecast (if you couldn’t tell, I read this publication religiously): On the other side of the world, extreme drought and telling profit margins have Australian rice farmers switching to growing wine grapes. Australian rice? Yeah, that’s what we thought, too. But the reduction in […]
Courtesy of Agora’s 5 Min Forecast: Headlining the global food crisis, rice found itself another record high yesterday. Futures in Chicago ticked up another 2.3%, to $22.67, per 100 pounds when the Philippines — the world’s biggest rice importer — put in a buy order for 1 million metric tons. That’s more than 50% of […]
The U.S. corn crop was 2% planted as of Sunday, down from the five-year average pace of 7%, the U.S. Agriculture Department reported Monday afternoon in its weekly Crop Progress report.
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