Insights and Stories on Corn

Pork prices gain on seasonal demand, tighter numbers

Apr. 25, 2016 at 12:26 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Western Canadian cash hog prices have been trending higher as supplies tighten and demand increases moving into the summer, two Prairie analysts say. “A lot of that has to do with lower slaughter numbers, higher pork cutout values,” said Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist with the Saskatchewan […]

EU crop chem firm takes stake in Engage Agro

Apr. 22, 2016 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy tumble on profit-taking

Apr. 22, 2016 at 5:22 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

Ontario court rejects grower appeal on neonic rules

Apr. 21, 2016 at 7:39 pm CDT

By Staff

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit eight-month high

Apr. 21, 2016 at 4:35 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy expected to correct lower

Apr. 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade are both likely to correct lower after sharp gains on the week, according to one U.S. analyst. Corn prices are slightly overdone, and will likely decline in coming sessions, said Terry Reilly of Futures International. Reilly said […]

By Jade Markus

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains on fund buying

Apr. 20, 2016 at 6:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans shrugged off early losses to surge two per cent on Wednesday, hitting new eight-month highs and extending the gains of a dramatic April rally linked to investment fund buying and rain-related delays in Argentina’s harvest. Chicago Board of Trade soybeans reached the psychological threshold […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Manitoba ag minister unseated in Tory sweep

Apr. 20, 2016 at 2:08 am CDT

Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties in Tuesday’s provincial election as Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives swept the New Democrats from office. Ron Kostyshyn lost his seat Tuesday to Tory candidate Rick Wowchuk, a schoolteacher from Swan River, by a spread of over 1,500 votes. Kostyshyn, a cow-calf producer […]

By Staff

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy jump to multi-month highs on fund buying

Apr. 19, 2016 at 5:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and wheat futures extended gains to multi-month peaks on Tuesday, lifted largely by technical and investment fund buying, traders and analysts said. Corn also rose at the Chicago Board of Trade, with all three agriculture future contracts gaining as part of a broad commodities […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Costco plans chicken plant in Nebraska

Apr. 18, 2016 at 6:03 pm CDT

Reuters — Costco Wholesale Corp. is considering building a poultry-processing plant in Nebraska, according to a local development council, a move that would give the retailer tighter control over its chicken supplies. The facility, if built in Nebraska’s Dodge County, would create 1,100 jobs, work with local chicken farmers and […]

By Michael Hirtzer Nathan Layne