Feed Grains: More storms strike India

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Published: April 22, 2016

By Commodity News Service Canada

WINNIPEG, Apr. 22 (CNS Canada) – Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world feed grains markets on Friday, April 22.

– CBOT corn futures finished 12 to 14 cents lower on Friday, with the July contract at US$3.7550 per bushel. Scattered showers in parts of Brazil are expected to alleviate excess dryness while some traders also took profits.

– The US Drought Monitor says a rash of abnormally dry conditions continues to affect land from central Tennessee and Kentucky eastward and northeastward through the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic region.

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By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, Jan. 19 (CNS) – Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world…

– According to the USDA, the total inspections of grain for export from all major export regions hit 1.82 million tonnes during the week ended April 14, which was a 3% drop from the previous week.

– Cold weather is delaying corn planting in northern France. According to FranceAgriMer, just 11% of the intended acres had been sown as of April 18, which compares to 47% in 2015.

– South Africa has imported 1.7 million tonnes of yellow corn and 72,000 tonnes of white corn so far this current marketing season, according to the country’s agriculture minister.

– Farmers in northeast India are totalling crop damage after a heavy storm featuring rain and hail struck the district of Nagaland this week, a report on skymetweather.com said.

– Feed barley bids in the key cattle feeding area of Lethbridge, Alberta were in the C$210 to C$215 per tonne range as of April 15, which was up C$1 to $2 as the week before, according to provincial reports. Feed wheat prices were in the C$230 to C$240 range, which saw both the top end and bottom end expand from the previous week.

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