Insights and Stories on Corn

Nov. 1, 2016 at 5:12 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. may need to restart its idled potash mine at Colonsay, Sask. next year, as international buyers work through inventories, the company said on Tuesday. Mosaic halted production in July at the mine, about 70 km southeast of Saskatoon, for the rest of 2016 […]

By Ismail Shakil, Rod Nickel

Nov. 1, 2016 at 4:26 am CDT

Canada’s federal farm lender says it will be flexible with qualifying Prairie crop growers facing financial trouble from a rain-soaked harvest season. Areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have experienced “significant levels of rain in the last half of the growing season and snow since the beginning of October,” Farm […]

By Staff

Oct. 31, 2016 at 5:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures climbed more than one per cent on Monday as traders covered short positions following U.S. regulatory data last week showing an unexpectedly large build in bearish wheat bets. Soybean and corn futures both were flat to narrowly mixed in thin-volume […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Oct. 31, 2016 at 12:56 am CDT

Crop growers in southwestern Ontario are being asked how their access to high-speed internet, or lack thereof, has helped or hindered their adoption of precision ag tools. Researchers at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), as part of the Regional and Rural Broadband (R2B2) project, are studying how […]

By Staff

Oct. 28, 2016 at 3:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybeans futures fell one per cent on Friday, reversing from a two-month high while wheat and corn also eased as investors took profits after recent gains, traders and analysts said. Front-month Chicago Board of Trade November soybeans tested Thursday’s peak of $10.20 per bushel, but […]

By Michael Hirtzer