Insights and Stories on Corn

CBOT weekly outlook: Trade now watching weather

Mar. 16, 2016 at 4:49 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade have posted solid gains over the past two weeks, but the rally may run out of steam while attention in the markets shifts to spring weather patterns. “We’ve had a very strong rally since late February,” said […]

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on poor exports

Mar. 16, 2016 at 3:34 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. Senate blocks bill that would override state GMO labeling laws

Mar. 16, 2016 at 1:44 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Lisa Baertlein

U.S. grains: Soy, wheat fall after hitting multi-week peaks

Mar. 15, 2016 at 5:04 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Weather woes support wheat

Mar. 14, 2016 at 3:07 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Liberals pressed on PACA pledge for produce growers

Mar. 12, 2016 at 3:29 pm CST

The federal opposition New Democrats have cherry-picked a Liberal election promise to fruit and vegetable growers seeking insurance against U.S. and Canadian buyers who dodge their bills. Tracey Ramsey, the NDP’s international trade critic and MP for the southwestern Ontario riding of Essex, on Tuesday tabled a motion in the […]

By Staff

U.S. grains: Soybeans set 2016 high on short-covering, export demand

Mar. 11, 2016 at 4:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Short-covering and hopes for improved export demand lifted U.S. soybean futures to three-month highs on Friday, marking the longest rally for the market’s most active contract in four years. Corn futures touched a two-week high on technical buying and export demand, capping the grain’s biggest weekly […]

By Tom Polansek

La Nina seen maybe succeeding El Nino

Mar. 11, 2016 at 2:56 pm CST

Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday it sees a near 50 per cent chance La Nina could develop by the Northern Hemisphere fall on the heels of the El Nino conditions likely to dissipate in the coming months. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the […]

By Reuters

Federal rules arrive on halal food claims

Mar. 10, 2016 at 7:00 pm CST

Any food marketed in Canada as certified halal in its labeling or ads will have to include the name of its halal certifying body, starting next month. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Wednesday the two-year grace period it launched in 2014 for halal labelling and advertising requirements will […]

By Staff

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps for seventh straight day

Mar. 10, 2016 at 4:23 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures climbed for a seventh straight session on Thursday, the longest such streak in nearly two years, as a weaker U.S. dollar and concerns about adverse crop weather sparked fund short covering and other buying. Soybeans also rose for a seventh day while corn […]

By Karl Plume