Insights and Stories on Corn

Lethbridge feed barley’s spring rally muted

May. 16, 2016 at 7:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Lethbridge feed barley should be seeing its largest premium over fall and winter months, but so far this year the market’s spring rally has been limited. “This year all we’ve seen is a $5 to $10 per tonne move higher,” said Jim Beusekom, analyst at Market Place […]

U.S. grains: Corn rises on technical buying, planting switch

May. 16, 2016 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

U.N. experts find glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer

May. 16, 2016 at 7:10 pm CDT

By Kate Kelland

Kubota to buy equipment maker Great Plains

May. 13, 2016 at 8:22 pm CDT

By Staff

Forecasters see rising likelihood of La Nina in 2016

May. 13, 2016 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat up on short-covering

May. 13, 2016 at 4:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures rose on Friday to their highest levels in more than a week and gained against soybeans as traders took profits on inter-market spreads, analysts said. Soybeans also faced pressure from expectations that U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans than the U.S. […]

By Julie Ingwersen

France’s Senate suspends palm oil tax, delays neonic ban

May. 13, 2016 at 1:32 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The French Senate on Thursday adopted a revised version of its biodiversity bill in which senators scrapped an additional tax on palm oil and delayed until 2020 a ban on pesticides blamed for harming bees. The decisions are not final as the two houses of the […]

By Reuters

Germany looks set to abstain in EU glyphosate vote

May. 12, 2016 at 6:22 pm CDT

Reuters — Germany looks set to abstain in a European Union vote next week on the continued use of glyphosate in weed killers because ministries run by different parties remain at odds over the chemical which some experts say could be carcinogenic. Glyphosate is used in many herbicides including Monsanto’s […]

By Reuters

U.S. lawmakers put pressure on EPA over glyphosate review

May. 12, 2016 at 5:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers have asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to explain why it published — and then withdrew — documents related to its review of glyphosate, the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The documents, which included a report that […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

‘Severe’ grasshopper numbers loom over northern Alberta

May. 12, 2016 at 3:56 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– A mild winter and a warm, dry spring have created some favourable hatching conditions for grasshoppers in Alberta, with the possibility of a severe outbreak in some areas. According to Mark Cutts, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture in Stettler, higher numbers of grasshoppers lie in a […]

By Dave Sims