Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. Markets were down overnight, but as the day markets opened things seemed a little more optimistic and markets bounced up off of […] Read more
Wittal: CWB and open market need deliveries
Wittal: grain futures catch swine flu
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. Swine flu! Who knew? Major market reaction or over-reaction to the swine flu outbreak sent grains tumbling today. Concerns that a drop […] Read more
Wittal: StatsCan canola acreage surprise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. The Stats Canada seeded acreage report had a few surprises today from what I thought the acres might be. Canola coming in […] Read more
Wittal: soggy U.S. spring wheat area boosts Minneapolis futures
Reading Time: 2 minutes News of China possibly buying more canola and a higher soy complex overnight helped to push canola futures up today. Soy values dropped off as the day went on but canola seemed to find the support to stay positive throughout the day. Possibly this was due to optimistic anticipation by the Trade ahead of the […] Read more
Market Report
Reading Time: < 1 minute Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. It was a quiet day over all as outside financial markets in China and Japan showed some weakness overnight and that carried over into […] Read more
Wittal: purchases and weather bring some recovery
Reading Time: < 1 minute Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. A little good news always helps ! Reports of China buying beans and Pakistan buying Canadian canola today helped oilseeds to regain most […] Read more
Wittal: Crop futures follow financial markets down
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. A lack of any new good news on the financial front convinced traders it was time to take profits after last week’s […] Read more
Wittal: Weather outlook pressures corn futures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 17 — The markets over all seem to have turned more positive this past week on continued talk that maybe we […] Read more
Wittal: USDA reports seen neutral to bullish
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 8 — Financial markets were able to settle back down and actually show small gains today which hopefully they can hold […] Read more
Wittal: Bullish financial markets pressure grains
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 7 — Financial markets are slowly giving back the gains from last week. The lack of any news to help build […] Read more
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