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 19 July 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	548	463	487	534	433	558	486
CBOT Futures	July 2010 contract	US c/bushel	587	509	542	561	480	617	542
Exchange rate		$NZ/$US	0.729	0.705	0.711	0.649	0.667	0.742	0.705
CBOT Futures	nearest contract month	$NZ/tonne	276	241	252	302	226	280	253
CBOT Futures	July 2010 contract	$NZ/tonne	296	265	280	317	250	309	282
Freight	West USA - AKL mill	$NZ/tonne	94	97	96	103	93	101	97
AWB 2009 harvest	AH FOB (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	313	303	302	367	286	332	312
Freight	Sydney fob to AKL mill	$NZ/tonne	54	54	57	55	54	57	55
AWB 2009 harvest	AH del. AKL mill (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	367	357	359	422	340	389	367
AWB spot price 2009 harvest	AH del. AKL mill (prot 11.5%)	$NZ/tonne	421	251	255	274	394	446	422

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	300	340	340	430	300	340	339
Milling Wheat contract	Delivered ChCh (prot 11%)	$NZ/tonne	424	424	424	520	424	424	424
Feed Wheat free price	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	290	295	260	290	240	295	260
Feed Wheat contract	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	310	310	340	450	310	340	333
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	300	300	260	280	240	300	262
Feed Barley contract	Delivered Canterbury Rail	$NZ/tonne	260	260	260	410	260	260	260
Malting Barley contract	Delivered Ashburton	$NZ/tonne	345	345	345	500	345	345	345

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