Chris Lyddon

Correspondent at World Grain

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Articles

Grain market review: Rice

1 month ago | ricenewstoday.com | Chris Lyddon

Grain market review: Rice By Chris Lyddon. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – Slow demand in a well-supplied market has pushed global rice prices down in recent weeks. Buyers have held back as new crops increase availability. The International Grains Council (IGC) said in its March 20 Grain Market Report that “ample spot availabilities and generally weak buying interest continued to pressure international rice markets,” reporting a 3% overall fall in prices.
Grain market review: Rice

1 month ago | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – Slow demand in a well-supplied market has pushed global rice prices down in recent weeks. Buyers have held back as new crops increase availability. The International Grains Council (IGC) said in its March 20 Grain Market Report that “ample spot availabilities and generally weak buying interest continued to pressure international rice markets,” reporting a 3% overall fall in prices.
Grain market review: Coarse grains

1 month ago | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – Maize (corn) prices have risen in recent weeks as production forecasts have been cut due to adverse weather affecting planting in Brazil and Argentina. In its Feb. 20 Grain Market Report, the International Grains Council (IGC) said maize output rose by 4% over the previous four weeks with advances at all key origins. It noted a particular focus on prospects for South American harvests.
Grain market review: Oilseeds

Jan 22, 2025 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – World oilseeds prices eased in late 2024 and early 2025 as a bullish market ran into the prospect of a record Brazilian soybean crop. In its Grain Market Report of Jan. 16, the International Grains Council (IGC) said that for soybeans, “average global export prices, as tracked by the IGC GOI sub-Index, were modestly weaker (down 2%), over the period since Nov.
Grain Market Review: Coarse grains

Dec 3, 2024 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Solid export demand and a slightly bullish WASDE report meant a firmer maize (corn) market in November, taking sorghum up with it. A mixed picture left barley steady overall, while oats and rye were down. Geopolitical factors, notably the war in Ukraine, remain an issue for the market. The International Grains Council (IGC), in its monthly Grain Market Report released on Nov.
Global grain trade review

Oct 24, 2024 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Geopolitics have dominated traders’ thinking in recent months, with conflict in the Middle East joining uncertainty over Black Sea supplies as the Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on, clouding the overall supply and demand picture. Extreme weather, from drought to flooding, also has impacted grain trading, with several key production areas in the Northern Hemisphere having been recently affected.
Grain market review: Oilseeds

Oct 21, 2024 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Average oilseed prices have moved lower in recent weeks as crop prospects for soybeans improved, but the outlook for rapeseed has remained bullish. The International Grains Council (IGC) in its Oct.
Grain market review: Wheat

Sep 27, 2024 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – Weather concerns in North America and Europe have put a bullish element into world wheat markets in recent weeks, but low-priced supplies from the Black Sea capped a rally in late September. In its Grain Market Report of Sept.
Farmers in Brazil and Argentina ramp up growing of genetically-modified drought tolerant wheat that can grow in subtropical regions

Sep 11, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Chris Lyddon

Chris Lyddon | World Grain | September 12, 2024 Credit: Eleusis Llanderal A new wheat variety, resistant to drought, is set to play a vital role in smoothing out South American production in the face of increasing weather uncertainty. HB4 wheat, developed by the Argentine company Bioceres, using a gene derived from sunflowers, is being taken up by growers in Argentina and Brazil. South America’s major grain and oilseeds producers, Brazil and Argentina are, behind the United States, the second...
Regional Review: Ground zero for GM wheat

Aug 27, 2024 | world-grain.com | Chris Lyddon

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Anew wheat variety, resistant to drought, is set to play a vital role in smoothing out South American production in the face of increasing weather uncertainty. HB4 wheat, developed by the Argentine company Bioceres, using a gene derived from sunflowers, is being taken up by growers in Argentina and Brazil.