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Quality: great; protein: it depends - The Western Producer

Quality: great; protein: it depends – The Western Producer

"If you have high protein, big yields and the best quality, your wheat should be sitting pretty in this winter’s wheat market. But almost nobody harvested that, so farmers are now determining the best way to market their particular combination of quality, volume and protein.

The shortage of rain during the summer in large parts of the spring wheat growing area had many expecting a mostly high…

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9 Is the Short-Covering Wave in Wheat Over? | AM Markets | Agrimoney

9 Is the Short-Covering Wave in Wheat Over? | AM Markets | Agrimoney

But then the key December contract lost a bit of ground in the last session, and stood a further 0.2% lower, at $4.19 ¼ a bushel, in Chicago as of 07:50 UK time (01:50 Chicago time). …Indeed, the extent of the net short position had raised ideas that it looked a little “crowded”, and vulnerable to a reversal which would send prices spiking – especially given that futures were already not that far…

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9 - Quality Still a Question for Canada's Big Wheat Crop - AGCanada

9 – Quality Still a Question for Canada’s Big Wheat Crop – AGCanada

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are sitting on a very large wheat crop this year, but the moisture that helped boost yields also caused disease issues and supplies of higher-quality wheat may still be in short supply.

While the spring wheat harvest is just getting started and it’s hard to get a firm handle on quality at this time, “it’s fair to say that it won’t all be premium,” said Brent…

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1. NEWS - Agrimoney.com | Demand for quality wheat lifts EU export hopes

1. NEWS – Agrimoney.com | Demand for quality wheat lifts EU export hopes

Agrimoney.com | Demand for quality wheat lifts EU export hopes “The European Union looks ever more certain to take top rank in world wheat exports for the first time, with Strategie Grains lifting expectations for the bloc’s shipments, citing improved prospects for German and Polish trade.

Strategie Grainsraised by 1.6m tonnes to 26.8m tonnes its forecast for EU soft wheat exports in 2014-15 – a…

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