Wheat: rainfall causes markets to calm down
April 28, 2020 at 1:07 PM ,
Der AUDITOR
In the morning, wheat in Paris was down 1.1% to EUR 195.75 per metric tonne, while Chicago was down 0.9% to USD 5.20 per bushel. In the USA, the weekly export inspection of 501,333 metric tonnes remained below last week's result. This included 36,000 metric tonnes of US wheat going to Brazil. The Crop Progress Report showed 54% good to excellent stocks of US winter wheat, a good 3% less than last week and 10% weaker than last year. The US summer wheat sowing was 14% complete. The focus was on the weather. There was some heavy rainfall in France yesterday. In the next few days, this should also reach England, Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, including Southern Russia and Eastern Ukraine. For the next two weeks, precipitation is predicted in Western Europe again and again, so that wheat field crops can recover from the drought. At 27.97 million metric tonnes of wheat, EU exports are 63% above the weak exports of last year. The Russian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that grain exports will be suspended until the new marketing year. Kiev's wheat export reserves are also almost exhausted. Trade is therefore concentrated on EU goods, which are sufficiently available in Southern Germany, France and the Eastern EU.
Wheat, daily price development
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Milling wheat (12/220/76) |
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Parity |
EUR/mt |
Diff. EUR/mt |
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Rouen, FOB |
190.00 |
0.00 |
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Creil, FOB |
184.00 |
0.00 |
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Hamburg, DDP |
202.00 |
-2.00 |
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Westphalia, DDP |
198.00 |
-2.00 |
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Rhineland, DDP |
197.00 |
-3.00 |
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Upper Rhine Region, FOB |
191.00 |
-1.00 |
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Feed wheat (72/73) |
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Parity |
EUR/mt |
Diff. EUR/mt |
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Netherlands, CIF |
199.00 |
-1.00 |
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South Oldenburg, DDP |
200.00 |
-1.00 |
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Westphalia, DDP |
198.00 |
-1.00 |
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Upper Rhine Region, FOB |
190.00 |
-1.00 |
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Trade sources |
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