Canada’s field crop planting intentions are in

Canada indicates growers’ planting intentions for crops on the rise or falling from favour this year as southern dryness precedes the springtime thaw and the planting window opens…Read More

Peeter McMeekin - Grain Brokers Australia, March 19, 2024

Grain road voted SA’s worst gets critical funding

A 35km stretch of Yorke Peninsula road is getting an upgrade after coming to national attention through GPSA’s Worst Grain Road campaign…Read More

Grain Central, March 19, 2024

Maximise your nitrogen use efficiency

Targeted timing and amounts of urea applied and using products like Green Urea can all maximise the fertiliser spend and crop yields while reducing the likelihood of volatilisation…Read More

Grain Central, March 19, 2024

People on the Move in the grain industry

Who is on the move in the Australian grain industry? Catch up with our latest update on industry appointments, rewards and achievements…….Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

HRZ farmland shows decade’s highest price growth: ABARES

ABARES data shows farmland in high-rainfall zones has experienced the highest rate of average annual price growth over the past 10 years. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

Growers urged to report mouse numbers

Growers across Australia are being urged to check paddocks for mouse numbers and record mouse activity ahead of winter-crop sowing…Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

Mt Rupert among latest listings in lively SA, WA markets

This week shines a spotlight on the SA and WA markets, where there have been early strong sales and demand, and listings keep coming…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 18, 2024

Wheat to lead crop margin rebuild: Rabobank

A Rabobank report says lower input costs are expected to improve gross margins for Australia’s three major winter crops in the upcoming season…Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024


Daily Market Wire 18 March 2024
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Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

Aust. Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - $/tonne of CO2 equiv.

Today

35.75
Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.6560
Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

19 Mar 2024 (updated 10am daily)
Company Price Trending
Elders $8.96
Australian Agricultural Co $1.52
Graincorp $7.29
Ridley $2.12
Woolworths $36.64
Wellard $0.06
Source: ASX

SOI Graph

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Today

-15.02
Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Wheat

APW1 delivered Melbourne

Last Week

334
Source: Lachstock Consulting

Barley

FB1 delivered Melbourne

Today

302

Canola

Spot delivered Melbourne

Today

627
Source: Lachstock Consulting

Sorghum

Sorghum track Newcastle

Today

366
Source: Lachstock Consulting

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News

Grain road voted SA’s worst gets critical funding

A 35km stretch of Yorke Peninsula road is getting an upgrade after coming to national attention through GPSA’s Worst Grain Road campaign…Read More

Grain Central, March 19, 2024

Growers urged to report mouse numbers

Growers across Australia are being urged to check paddocks for mouse numbers and record mouse activity ahead of winter-crop sowing…Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

Wheat to lead crop margin rebuild: Rabobank

A Rabobank report says lower input costs are expected to improve gross margins for Australia’s three major winter crops in the upcoming season…Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

Exotic fly released on WA’s South Coast to combat snails

Following the success of an SA program, parasitoid flies have been released on WA’s south coast to help control two types of snails that attack crops. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 18, 2024

Weather

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 13 Mar 2024

A front colliding with an upper trough delivered rainfall totals exceeding 100mm to parts of the WA’s Southern Interior, Goldfields and Eucla districts over March 9-11…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, March 12, 2024

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 6 Mar 2024

Weekly rainfall totals of 100-200mm were recorded across northern, central and western areas of the NT, pockets of north-west WA and northern parts of Qld..Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, March 6, 2024

GRDC Update: BoM tools worth a look as planting approaches

As planting time approaches, the BoM is inviting growers to look beyond climate drivers and short-term forecasts to its My Climate View tool and Grains Climate Outlook videos…Read More

Liz Wells, February 28, 2024

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 28 Feb 2024

Rain fell over much of Qld and the NT as well as parts of WA in the past week…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, February 27, 2024

Cropping

Tour learns from growers getting innovative with soybeans

A three-day bus tour held earlier this month allowed growers from Qld and northern NSW heard of innovative ways to incorporate soybeans into different farming systems…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 15, 2024

Three recipients named for COGGO 2024 grants

GIWA’s Barley Council, Farmanco and Stirlings to Coast Farmers have all been successful in securing some 2024 funding from WA’s COGGO…Read More

Grain Central, March 13, 2024

Cotton picking under way in CQ, Ord still planting

Cotton Australia is expecting the cotton pick now underway to yield more than 4.5 million bales after a mixed growing season, and with planting in the Ord yet to finish…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 13, 2024

Registrations invited for Brookstead cotton event

The Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year Field Day is being held next Wednesday and includes a farm tour and insights from a variety of speakers. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 11, 2024

Markets

Canada’s field crop planting intentions are in

Canada indicates growers’ planting intentions for crops on the rise or falling from favour this year as southern dryness precedes the springtime thaw and the planting window opens…Read More

Peeter McMeekin - Grain Brokers Australia, March 19, 2024

Daily Market Wire 19 March 2024

European production outlook continues lower as weather market maintains ebb and flow of bid prices…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 19, 2024

Daily Market Wire 18 March 2024

Untimely rain hampers some EU spring plantings, raises production risk. Seasonal challenges trim Argentina and Brazil summer crop forecasts. Australian price drifts lower…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 18, 2024

Aus barley exports drop in Jan, sorghum surges

Australia exported 926,723t of barley and 116,866t of sorghum in January, according to the latest ABS data. ..Read More

Liz Wells, March 13, 2024

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AGT Foods Australia builds relationships as part of long game

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Machinery

New seeding tech boosts crop potential at Beaumont

Improved seeding technology helped the Inkster family in WA’s Esperance region make the most of the season’s rainfall…Read More

Grain Central, February 2, 2024

Electric tractors lead charge, hydrogen in the wind

Small electric tractors are making their way into Australian agriculture, but bigger machines powered by sources including hydrogen appear to be a European venture for now. ..Read More

Liz Wells, January 24, 2024

Kubota unveils concept electric tractor at CES 2024

Kubota last week released the concept for an electric tractor which can go from 10pc to 80pc charged in under six minutes…Read More

Grain Central, January 15, 2024

Rewards reaped from bigger, better seeding gear in WA

Former crayfishers the Cockman family and long-time farmers the Martins share their insights on why big seeding rigs full of features work in their WA country…Read More

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Property

HRZ farmland shows decade’s highest price growth: ABARES

ABARES data shows farmland in high-rainfall zones has experienced the highest rate of average annual price growth over the past 10 years. ..Read More

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Mt Rupert among latest listings in lively SA, WA markets

This week shines a spotlight on the SA and WA markets, where there have been early strong sales and demand, and listings keep coming…Read More

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Widgewa, Burumbah, NQ aggregation for sale

Among the latest listings to come to market in Queensland are Widgewa and Burumbah north of Goondiwindi and Billabong and Keshvale south of Townsville…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 15, 2024

Macquarie Valley’s Bowen Park, Downs’ Boundary Farms for sale

Two sizable properties developed for dryland and irrigated cropping as well as grazing are on the market with Bowen Park near Trangie, NSW, and Boundary Farm on Qld’s Darling Downs…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 11, 2024

AgCarbon Central

Gathering soil-carbon data sets up Archers for future

One of Australia’s soil-carbon pioneers says he is hoping a comprehensive dataset being gathered on the grazing operation will help with future environmental market opportunities…Read More

Eric Barker, March 11, 2024

WA carbon future points to canola crush expansion

Building of WA’s largest canola-crushing facility looks increasingly likely, but the when, where and partners are yet to come to light…Read More

Liz Wells, March 6, 2024

GRDC Update: Sustainability pull expected as 2030 nears

Export customers are expected to up their call for grain with sustainability credentials as self-imposed targets to lower emissions by 2030 near…Read More

Liz Wells, March 4, 2024

Growing flock at Tolga Farm bucks WA trend

Tolga Farm is producing Certified Sustainable grain and lifting sheep numbers to show that lower inputs can co-exist with profitability in mixed farming. ..Read More

Liz Wells, February 21, 2024

Beef Central

Exciting opportunities for Australian beef exports to US, but when does it really kick-in?

There’s now broad agreement that the US presents the best demand opportunity for Australian beef in the medium-term, but the key question remains, when does it really start? The topic..Read More

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