Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Our weekly export inspection report came out Monday,  almost ignored as the market gets ready for the Wednesday 7:30 am Central Time U.S.D.A. crop report.
Let’s review them anyway, so we are on top of demand fundamentals.  Lowly wheat inspections were 20.4 million bushels inspected for near-term export versus 19 the week prior; [...]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
We started the week on the demand-side news with our weekly export inspection report at 10am Central Time each Monday, telling us how much of each grain was inspected by the U.S.D.A. for near-term shipment and is a gauge of near-term demand.  Wheat inspections were 17.6 million bushels, down from 19 the [...]

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Full week of trading ahead to end the month.  We started Monday with our weekly export inspection report showing 17.7 million bushels of beans were inspected for near-term export versus 1.1 the week prior; 10.3 a year ago; and four-week average of 17 m.b.  It is neutral at best to demand, as [...]

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Short week with all our demand reports moving ahead one day.  Our weekly export inspection report came out Tuesday, one day delayed due to holiday.  For wheat it showed 15.8 million bushels of wheat was inspected for near-term export; off 2 m.b. from the week prior; 5 m.b. over a year ago; [...]

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Our first report for direction on the demand front came with our weekly export inspection report showing 16.9 million bushels of wheat was inspected by the U.S.D.A. for near-term shipment.  This was off from 17.9 the week prior; 19.2 a year ago, but over our weak four-week average of 13.7.  Neutral at [...]

Monday, February 1, 2010
How’s demand, well our weekly export sales report came out Thursday telling us how much of each of the grains were sold the week prior for future shipment.
Wheat exports were 660 thousand metric tons down 20% from a big number the week prior, but 80% over our weak four-week average.  We also [...]

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Our first demand report of the week came out Monday with our weekly export inspection showing how much of each grain was inspected by the U.S.D.A. for near-term shipment.  Wheat inspections were 16.8 million bushels; up from 9.6 m.b. the week prior; equal a year ago and over our weak four-week average [...]

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Short week as we start things on Tuesday with what normally is our Monday weekly export inspection report – a gauge of near-term demand.
Wheat inspected by the U.S.D.A. for near-term export was 9.3 million bushels, down from 12.3 m.b. the week prior, and four-week average of 11 m.b.  More numbers reflecting our [...]

Wednesday, January 6, 2010
We started the week’s reports with our weekly export inspection report showing wheat inspections at 9.1 million bushels versus 10.9 the week prior; 13.1 a year ago; and our weak four-week average of 12.4.  It speaks for itself that demand remains a non-positive driving force near-term.  Corn saw 20.3 m.b. inspected for [...]

Monday, December 21, 2009
Let’s address the demand side of the market first with Thursday’s weekly export sales report that gives us the amount of each grain sold last week and becomes our strongest near-term gauge of demand.
Wheat, the weak sister in the group continues to show the results of record inventories on foreign ports with [...]

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Monday’s first report came with the weekly export inspection report.  It’s importance weekly come as it is a demand-oriented report and now that harvest is complete, demand is our primary driving force.
Wheat inspections were a weak 13 million bushels versus 13.4 the week prior, and four-week average of 14 m.b. year-to-date inspections [...]