Prices and Trends

Prices and Trends | Prices and Trends Information

United Wheatgrowers (NZ) Ltd aims to provide up to date international and domestic grain pricing information and historical pricing trends so that New Zealand wheat growers may make well informed marketing decisions.

Price & Trends Information

Latest Price: Monday 8 March 2010

INTERNATIONAL WHEAT PRICES
Commodity	Detail	Unit	This Week	Last Month	3 Months Ago	1 Year Ago	Low	High	Avg
CBOT Futures	nearest contract month	US c/bushel	490	476	515	512	476	558	505
CBOT Futures	July 2010 contract	US c/bushel	553	546	596	535	546	617	571
Exchange rate		$NZ/$US	0.686	0.689	0.729	0.506	0.686	0.742	0.709
CBOT Futures	nearest contract month	$NZ/tonne	263	254	259	372	252	280	262
CBOT Futures	July 2010 contract	$NZ/tonne	296	291	300	389	288	309	296
Freight	West USA - AKL mill	$NZ/tonne	99	98	94	127	93	99	96
AWB 2009 harvest	AH FOB (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	332	311	337	392	311	332	326
Freight	Sydney fob to AKL mill	$NZ/tonne	57	55	55	56	55	57	56
AWB 2009 harvest	AH del. AKL mill (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	389	366	392	448	366	389	381
AWB spot price 2009 harvest	AH del. AKL mill (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	446	252	286	226	421	446	437

DOMESTIC WHEAT PRICES
Commodity	Detail	Unit	Price	Last Month	3 Months Ago	1 Year Ago	Low	High	Avg
Milling Wheat free price	Delivered ChCh (prot 12.5%)	$NZ/tonne	340	340	340	380	340	340	340
Milling Wheat contract	Delivered ChCh (prot 11%)	$NZ/tonne	520	520	520	520	520	520	520
Feed Wheat free price	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	245	240	240	330	240	245	242
Feed Wheat contract	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	450	450	450	450	450	450	450
Freight Ashburton - AKL mill	$NZ/t	$NZ/tonne	80	80	80	80	80	80	80

DOMESTIC BARLEY PRICES
Commodity	Detail	Unit	Price	Last Month	3 Months Ago	1 Year Ago	Low	High	Avg
Feed Barley free price	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	240	240	245	320	240	245	242
Feed Barley contract	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	410	410	410	410	410	410	410
Malting Barley contract	Delivered Ashburton	$NZ/tonne	529	526	517	500	520	529	525

IMPORT STATISTICS
Commodity	Detail	Unit
Milling Wheat Volume	Volume 2yrs ago	tonnes	343036
Milling Wheat Price	Price 2yrs ago	$NZ/tonne CIF	371
Milling Wheat Volume	Volume 1yr ago	tonnes	291992
Milling Wheat Price	Price 1yr ago	$NZ/tonne CIF	623
Milling Wheat Volume	Volume year to date	tonnes	307568
Milling Wheat Price	Price year to date	$NZ/tonne CIF	495