Corn took a battering, attracting its biggest selldown in three years from hedge funds worried about US biofuel and export demand, as managed money sold down in grains, with arabica coffee in their sights too. Managed money, a...
Read MoreHedge funds turned net buyers on grains, encouraged by signs of easing in China’s anti-Covid policy, although the sentiment failed to spread to the livestock complex, where lean hogs suffered marked selling. Managed money, a...
Read MoreFrom hero to zero, and back again. Cotton futures, which turned from the best-performing major agricultural commodity in August to the biggest loser in both September and October, switched back to a top-of-the-table position...
Read MorePoultry can fly high after all. At least in terms of UK food inflation, in which it is, by a distance, proving the most rapidly appreciating of the main meat market segments. The retail price of fresh poultry was, in the half...
Read MoreCranswick laid bare the tests posed by a “relentlessly challenging operating environment” in the UK, marked by soaring inflation and tightened consumer budgets, as it unveiled higher revenues but an easing in profits. The...
Read MoreLive cattle will prove one of the best bets in agricultural commodities in 2023, buoyed by a squeeze on supplies of animals for slaughter after a drought-boosted programme this year, Rabobank said. The bank forecast Chicago live...
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