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CBOT weekly outlook: Rallies end as plantings continue slow pace

May. 18, 2022 at 6:36 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Soybean and wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) rallied throughout the week, but may start to ease as spring plantings progress. Terry Reilly, senior agriculture futures analyst for Futures International in Chicago, said India’s newly-implemented ban on wheat exports starting last Saturday due to a […]

U.S. grains: Wheat futures slide on Russian crop exports, U.N. grain talks

May. 18, 2022 at 6:08 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat firm as worries about global supplies remain

May. 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat limit up on India’s export ban

May. 16, 2022 at 7:18 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat, corn ease off rally on supply concerns

May. 13, 2022 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Spring planting well underway in Ontario

May. 12, 2022 at 7:40 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Farmers are well into seeding their crops for 2022, according to Wednesday’s crop report from Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). The report noted planting of corn, soybeans and spring cereals started late last week — the exception being where there are heavier soils. OMAFRA […]

By MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Market watching new-crop weather

May. 12, 2022 at 7:33 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With excessive moisture in the eastern Prairies and persistent drought in southern Alberta, uncertainty over new-crop grain production is keeping some caution in the feed market. The spot market is relatively steady as the market waits for a better picture on this year’s growing conditions. “A lot of […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets react to USDA supply/demand estimates

May. 12, 2022 at 7:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday released its monthly world agriculture supply/demand estimates (WASDE) — the first to show estimates for the 2022-23 marketing year — and markets reacted quickly. Ryan Ettner, a broker for Allendale Inc. at McHenry, Ill., said that while figures for corn […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheats up on ‘indisputably bullish’ cuts to harvest estimates

May. 12, 2022 at 6:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures set contract highs on Thursday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) slashed its production forecast for the variety that is grown in the U.S. Plains and used to make bread. USDA, in a monthly crop report, projected hard red winter wheat output […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Supply worries, weather spur rallies

May. 11, 2022 at 3:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain and soybean futures jumped on Wednesday, as traders uneasy about world supplies adjusted positions a day before the release of U.S. crop data. Concerns about poor global crop weather helped support gains, with MGEX spring wheat futures setting contract highs as […]

By Tom Polansek