Insights and Stories on Corn

U.S. EPA proposes biofuel mandate cuts

Dec. 7, 2021 at 3:29 pm CST

New York | Reuters — The Biden administration proposed on Tuesday a reduction in the amount of biofuels that U.S. oil refiners were required to blend into their fuel mix since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The long-awaited decision offers some relief to the U.S. refining industry after the […]

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans drop

Dec. 7, 2021 at 3:21 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Klassen: Feeder market stabilizes

Dec. 6, 2021 at 8:37 pm CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans fall in risk-off trade

Dec. 6, 2021 at 4:44 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat slide continues in volatile week

Dec. 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

Canola declines, durum drops in new StatsCan estimates

Dec. 3, 2021 at 11:35 am CST

MarketsFarm — There were very few surprises in Statistics Canada’s latest principal field crop production estimates released Friday — the first in 2021-22 to use a survey of producers. Nevertheless, they quantified just how severe last summer’s drought was in Western Canada. Canola production for the 2021-22 marketing year was […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Prices strong, beginning to stabilize

Dec. 2, 2021 at 8:10 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in Western Canada have shown some strength over the past month, but were stabilizing in early December as corn imports pick up from the U.S. Erin Harakal, trade manager at Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta., said prices have been strong over the past month […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as global demand offsets virus worries

Dec. 2, 2021 at 7:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. and European wheat futures jumped on Thursday as a series of import tenders and fears of rain damage to Australia’s harvest overshadowed concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus variant. Soybean and corn futures also advanced at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Global […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Grain futures regain ground as COVID jitters ease

Dec. 1, 2021 at 6:10 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures turned higher Wednesday, recouping some of their steep losses from the previous session, as investor concerns that the Omicron coronavirus variant would derail the global economy began to ease. Corn and soybeans also regained ground on end-user buying, traders said, following hopes of […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets ‘resilient’ in face of Omicron

Dec. 1, 2021 at 1:47 pm CST

MarketsFarm — While fears over the newly-identified Omicron COVID-19 variant caused a sharp downturn Friday in oil and equities, crop prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) were not as hard hit. “This new COVID-19 variant has got some traders spooked in the market here in thinking there might […]

By Adam Peleshaty