Insights and Stories on Corn

U.S. grains: Soy up for fourth session on Argentina crop concerns

Jan. 18, 2017 at 6:51 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures rose on Wednesday for a fourth straight session, notching a six-month high on worries that recent heavy rains could damage crops in Argentina. Wheat and corn closed lower on a round of profit-taking after multi-month highs. Chicago Board of Trade March soybeans settled […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn can’t keep their distance from Argentina

Jan. 18, 2017 at 5:53 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soybeans set six-month top

Jan. 17, 2017 at 5:15 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

Greig: A year of farm policy decisions ahead for Ontario

Jan. 16, 2017 at 8:34 pm CST

By John Greig

U.S. farmers ask Trump to stay the course on Cuba

Jan. 14, 2017 at 3:57 pm CST

By Marc Frank

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend rally

Jan. 13, 2017 at 5:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Friday on follow-through buying on the U.S. Agriculture Department’s surprise cut to its domestic production estimate and ending stocks on Thursday, traders said. Soymeal led soybeans higher on concerns that forecasts for more rain in Argentina could limit the size of […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Soy up as USDA lowers crop, stocks estimates

Jan. 12, 2017 at 7:19 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures hit a 3-1/2-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its estimate of the 2016 soy harvest and lowered its forecast of domestic inventories, analysts said. Wheat futures advanced after the USDA said farmers planted the fewest U.S. acres to […]

By Julie Ingwersen

As Trump meets biotech CEOs, farm advisers fret over empty USDA spot

Jan. 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has left the agriculture secretary as the last department head to be named to his cabinet, while a meeting with the chief executives of two agribusiness giants gave a hint at a roster of farm issues the incoming president will face. Trump […]

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

U.S. farmers cut winter wheat acres to 108-year low

Jan. 12, 2017 at 12:56 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — U.S. farmers slashed their winter wheat plantings to the lowest in more than a century as supplies of the grain ballooned to a 29-year high, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday. USDA also dialed back its harvest estimates for the U.S. soybean and corn crops but […]

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn to tilt lower moving forward

Jan. 11, 2017 at 6:59 pm CST

CNS Canada — Following a U.S. government supply and demand report due out Thursday, soybeans and corn are expected to be sideways to lower as traders anticipate upcoming supplies, one U.S. analyst says. “Technically we’ve kind of ran up to the higher end of our trading ranges. We probably can […]

By Jade Markus