The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) announced this week that the CFTC had approved changes in their hard red spring wheat delivery specifications. Here are the changes:
Wheat does not have to be U.S. origin. Storage charges will go from $.05 per month to $.07 per month. Maximum vomitoxin content will be 2 ppm. Up to 3 ppm will be accepted with a 20 cent per bushel discount.
The origin change will become effective with the September 2012 contract. The storage and vomitoxin changes will be effective with the May 2013 contract.The most important change is that delivery of non-U.S. origin wheat will now be allowed. This is an obvious, and correct, reaction to the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly...
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An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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