Farmers in the U.S. will plant 89.2 million acres of corn this spring, down 2% from last year, while at the same time planting 84.6 million acres of soybeans, up 1% from a year ago. Soybean acreage will be higher in 21 of the 31 major ...
Tags: Grain Stocks, Soybeans, Corn
A sinking crude oil market is just too much for the grain bulls to handle right now. Corn and soybean prices moved lower Monday morning after USDA released quarterly grain stocks, monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates ...
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Statistics Canada pegged surprisingly large 2013-14 production figures for many of the crops grown in the country in its final crop report of 2013, released Wednesday. "There's just no getting around it, this is the biggest crop of ...
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December US monoethylene glycol contracts will move lower following a decrease in benchmark price announcements by several major producers. US contracts for fiber and polyethylene terephthalate makers were assessed at 49.25 cents/lb ...
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The October US contract price for acetone settled down 1.75 cents to 63.50 cents/lb ($1,400/mt), sources said Tuesday. The settlement was in line with expectations of a 1 cent to 2 cents decline, sources said. The lower settlement came ...
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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday went down to settle at their lowest in nearly two weeks, as the US faced opposition from Russia on a military strike against Syria, eroding demand for gold ...
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US propane and propylene stocks rose 3.46 million barrels to 53.12 million barrels the reporting week ended Friday, according to an Energy Information Administration report released Wednesday. The stock increase was well above industry ...
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Further falls have been forecast for the Australian dollar, which yesterday dived below the US95c mark to levels not seen since October 2011. Speculation that the US Federal Reserve will begin to slow its monetary stimulus sooner than ...
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The Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest point in a week on news the national unemployment rate rose to 5.4 per cent last month. At 5pm AEDT today, the Aussie was trading at $US1.051, down from $US1.0553 on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Import PVC prices are moving lower for the fourth consecutive week in Southeast Asia as persistently weak demand along with tumbling upstream costs pushed sellers into agreeing to further reductions on their October prices. This was after ...
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In Southeast Asia, more local PVC prices for September were announced with rollovers to decreases this week after a Vietnamese producer had pioneered lower September prices in late August as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. ...
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