Archive for July, 2010
Posted on July 28th, 2010 in Agriculture, Grains, futures, weather with no comments
In our report to clients on Monday (26 Jul), we wrote:
We’ve seen dramatic spikes in both beans & wheat – this week it may be time for corn to pop. The story in the corn/soy belt this week will be rain (particularly in the WCB). While overnight markets are lower, we expect to see support [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2010 in Agriculture, Global Commodities, Global Weather, India, Sugar, climate, futures, monsoon, supply chain with no comments
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Readers here know that WTI spends a lot of time discussing the vagaries of the Indian Monsoon from both a long and short range perspective, as the seasonal pattern is crucial not only for the development of the country’s sugarcane crop, but also to the importance of the [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2010 in Sugar with no comments
spot sugar futures briefly crossed the 19 cent mark this morning; currently trading at 18.77. yesterday (monday) range was between 18.2-18.6
Posted on July 27th, 2010 in Agriculture, Global Commodities, Global Weather, India, Sugar, monsoon with no comments
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Looking the this morning’s model runs, by day 3, high pressure looks to set in once again over northern India, and the favorable rainfall pattern that the northern growing belt has seen over the last couple of days will start to scale back. 500mb hts (via GFS) hinting [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2010 in ENSO, Global Weather, climate with no comments
Posted on July 26th, 2010 in Agriculture, Global Commodities, Global Weather, India, Sugar, futures, monsoon with no comments
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
While sugar futures are starting off the week with support, expect this to fade as a very active Indian Monsoon pattern will help the country’s sugar cane regions in the northern belt. In addition, while delays are present in sugar exporting out of Brazil will occur, emotion has [...]