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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