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mag
25-4-2005, 10:50 am
For those who maybe interested we have released a sample database on yearly world grain production of Barley, Corn, Oats, Sorghum and Wheat.

The web site address is as follows:

http://www.silagenet.com/marketIntel.php

cheers :thumb

week ending 22 April 2005

Wheat Sales:

Japan purchased approximately 85,000 metric tons of U.S.
Wheat 18,000 metric tons of Canadian Wheat and 20,000 metric tons of Australian Wheat. Shipment is slated for June.

Breakdown of the purchase is as follows:

United States
11.7 pct protein Hard Red Winter 28,000
13.0 pct protein Hard Red Winter 6,000
14.0 pct protein Dark Northern Spring 51,000
Canada
13.5 pct protein Western Red Spring 18,000
Australia
Standard White 20,000
TOTAL: 123,000
Feed Grains:

102,616 metric tons of US Corn for export distribution to Japan shipment is slated by August

Taiwan purchased approximately 20,000 metric tons of US Yellow Corn shipment is slated for May

Oilseeds:

Taiwan purchased approximately 15,000 metric tons of US Soybeans shipment is slated for May

Quite week really – IWTO meeting in tassie – with some big talk about marketing wool, surly needed, even AWI has hired some consultants from NZ to see how come they are doing better, my comment here – they have an advantage over in New Zealand – they don't have AWI.

More to come via some contacts attending the meeting – over the coming weeks

China:

Last month the Chinese government raised diesel prices by 7% the net effect of this to the 700 million Chinese farmers - diesel now costs $0.55 cents a litre -
HO! - HOW I WISH WE HAD THAT PROBLEM

NOTE : China tariffs on imported wheat is currently at 20% - and wool is at 15% if a trade agreement was reached and the Chinese reduce these, then we may see more markets open up, but I doubt that they will as they will want to protect there farmers from cheaper imports.


Livestock:

Brazil is gaining ground in China with live exports of cattle , and they are purchasing some good quality genetics (from Australia and other countries), I suspect that within 5 years they will give us a run for our money in the live export trade if transportation costs can be kept to a minimum.

Dave
26-4-2005, 12:33 pm
For those who maybe interested we have released a sample database on yearly world grain production of Barley, Corn, Oats, Sorghum and Wheat.

The web site address is as follows:

http://www.silagenet.com/marketIntel.php

cheers :thumb

Nice stats, lots of good information there :thumb. I think your yield stats might be back to front though (should be production divided by area) :confused:.

Out of interest, does maize (corn) rate a mention because it's an 'international' commodity? Surprised to see no mention of canola either.

mag
26-4-2005, 04:55 pm
Nice stats, lots of good information there :thumb. I think your yield stats might be back to front though (should be production divided by area) :confused:.


Maybe a big woops on that one mate - thanks :beer
NOW FIXED --


Out of interest, does maize (corn) rate a mention because it's an 'international' commodity? Surprised to see no mention of canola either.

We have Canola and others as well but they are placed else where in the internal members section under oil seeds - site mainly deals with hay and silage with a bit of grains info thrown in.

We will be releasing graphs some time this week where you can plot countries against each other as well over a selectable time series.

cheers and thanks for the feed back - :D

Dave
26-4-2005, 09:53 pm
Maybe a big woops on that one mate - thanks :beer
NOW FIXED --
No problems. I only noticed as I had agronomy and pasture lecturers telling me for years why our yields had increased (superphosphate, trace elements, new varieties etc.) and I noticed the figures were a bit out of whack. It must have sunk in with me after a while :D.

You have some good free tools too, that's a good way to make your web site stand out from the competition. If you can find room for a link to AgLinks on there somewhere I'll add Silagenet to our link partners (http://www.aglinks.com.au/link-partners.php) page ;).