# Farming News - Rabobank: Weather event among threats to global food price stability in 2018

> Rabobank's annual Outlook report, Good Buy, Low Prices, lists weather, trade and currency risks to global food prices in 2018. It notes that a La Niña could bring heat and dryness to Americas grain areas and flooding to Asian palm oil plantations. Global grain and oilseed stocks are high but balance sheets are tightening.

- Date: 2017-11-21 · published 2017-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Global · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67910-farming-news-rabobank-weather-event-among-threats-to-global-food-price
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Tightening balance sheets leave less cushion against weather shocks, which raises the chance of price spikes in corn, soybeans and wheat. A stronger dollar from US rate rises could make US exports less competitive.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲
- WHEAT: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-12-01 | [La Niña Threatens Price Stability \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49573-la-nina-threatens-price-stability-feed-and-grain.md) | -0.4% | +1.4% |
| CORN | 2019-05-19 | [Markets finally respond to wet weather - Agweek \| #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5629-markets-finally-respond-to-wet-weather-agweek-1-source-for-agriculture-news.md) | +3.2% | +10.8% |
| CORN | 2026-04-09 | [Rising Odds of Strong El Niño Point to Global Weather and Crop Impacts - Bloomberg](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19631-rising-odds-of-strong-el-nino-point-to-global-weather-and-crop-impacts-bloomberg.md) | +0.9% | +1.5% |
| CORN | 2023-09-28 | [Risks to global food commodity prices from El Niño](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33997-risks-to-global-food-commodity-prices-from-el-nino.md) | +1.1% | +1.7% |
| CORN | 2021-05-13 | [A"maize"ing global support for wheat prices \| The Land \| NSW](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47137-a-maize-ing-global-support-for-wheat-prices-the-land-nsw.md) | -7.7% | -2.2% |
| SOY | 2017-07-28 | [Weather events cause global feed prices to dip - Pig World](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70040-weather-events-cause-global-feed-prices-to-dip-pig-world.md) | -4.4% | -5.4% |
| SOY | 2020-12-01 | [La Niña Threatens Price Stability \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49573-la-nina-threatens-price-stability-feed-and-grain.md) | -0.9% | +10.9% |
| SOY | 2019-05-19 | [Markets finally respond to wet weather - Agweek \| #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5629-markets-finally-respond-to-wet-weather-agweek-1-source-for-agriculture-news.md) | +1.0% | +11.1% |

## Sources

- farming.co.uk: https://www.farming.co.uk/news/rabobank-weather-event-among-threats-to-global-food-price-stability-in-2018

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