US Plains HRW Wheat-Basis bids steady as futures plunge to lifetime lows
CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) -Spot basis bids for hard red winter wheat were mostly level at elevator and miller locations in the southern U.S. Plains on Thursday as a steep futures price drop chilled farmer selling interest, traders said.
* Wheat futures dropped as a Canadian rail labor stoppage stoked some concerns about a flood of truck-delivered grain shipped south to the United States from Canada.
* Canada's top two railroads locked out more than 9,000 unionized workers on Thursday. The Canadian government moved quickly to end the stoppage, announcing it would send the matter to binding arbitration.
* The U.S. Department of Agriculture said net U.S. wheat export sales last week totaled 492,700 metric tons, which was at the high end of trade estimates of up to 500,000 tons. The total included sales of 116,400 tons of HRW wheat, about half of it to Mexico.
* Protein premiums for HRW wheat shipped by rail to or through Kansas City were 10 cents higher for grain with 12.2% to 12.8% protein and unchanged for other protein grades. KCBT/SCA
* K.C. September hard red winter wheat futures KWU24 hit a contract low of $5.21-1/4 a bushel on Thursday and last traded 8 cents lower at $5.28-1/4 per bushel.
Basis values are quoted against futures in cts/bu:
Current | Previous | Cash | |||||
basis | basis | price | |||||
KANSAS | |||||||
Wichita | -3 | + | U | -3 | + | U | $5.25 |
Newton | -32 | + | U | -32 | + | U | $4.96 |
Goodland | -60 | + | U | -60 | + | U | $4.68 |
TEXAS | |||||||
Gulf track* | +115 | + | U | +115 | + | U | $6.43 |
Galveston** | +100 | + | U | +100 | + | U | $6.28 |
OKLAHOMA | |||||||
Enid | -15 | + | U | -15 | + | U | $5.13 |
Catoosa | +0 | + | U | +0 | + | U | $5.28 |
NOTES:
H = March, K = May, N = July, U = September
Z = December; UNQ = Unquoted bids
0 = Sp Option price; NC = No comparison
* = No. 1 12% hard winter wheat, rail bids
** = Ordinary protein, rail bids
LINKS:
* K.C. HRW wheat protein scales KCBT/SCA
* U.S. weekly wheat crop progress US/WHE
* U.S. forward basis WHEAT/BASIS
* U.S. Midwest cash grain PM GRA/PM
* U.S. CIF Gulf Grain GRA/C
* U.S. FOB Gulf Grain GRA/F
Reporting by Karl Plume in Chicago; editing by Jonathan Oatis
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