Insights and Stories on Corn

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall amid global export setbacks

Jan. 28, 2016 at 5:06 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures tumbled on Thursday, with the most-active March contract down 1.6 per cent, the largest drop for soybeans in more than a month, after exporters canceled U.S. soybean sales to China. Chicago Board of Trade March wheat ended 4-1/4 cents lower at $4.72-1/4 per […]

Lower loonie helps farmers, but only so much

Jan. 27, 2016 at 6:17 pm CST

By Dave Sims

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn stays within range

Jan. 27, 2016 at 6:07 pm CST

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Wheat snaps rally, soy firm, corn flat

Jan. 27, 2016 at 5:41 pm CST

By Justin Madden

Major investment to build Farmers Edge’s data power

Jan. 27, 2016 at 5:20 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Russia said considering export duties for corn, barley

Jan. 27, 2016 at 2:02 am CST

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia’s agriculture ministry is considering introducing an export duty for corn and barley, Russian news agency Interfax reported Wednesday, citing First Deputy Minister Evgenii Gromyko. “We will discuss this question,” he said. Gromyko added that the question was planned to be discussed at a meeting with […]

By Reuters

DuPont CEO sees little to concern regulators in Dow merger

Jan. 27, 2016 at 1:46 am CST

Reuters — DuPont CEO Edward Breen said on Tuesday that antitrust regulators were likely to show “very little” concern about the company’s pending merger with Dow Chemical and were not expected to seek significant asset sales. Dupont and Dow plan to form a giant chemical and seed producer that would […]

By Swetha Gopinath

U.S. grains: Wheat rises to one-month high on technicals

Jan. 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade wheat prices climbed to a one-month high Tuesday on chart-based buying and fund short-covering as the market digested news that Russia might limit grain exports, traders said. U.S. soybean futures retreated and corn closed lower after a volatile session. At the CBOT, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Environment commissioner criticizes neonic registrations

Jan. 26, 2016 at 4:09 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s official environmental watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern that authorities were allowing the long-term use of pesticides linked to bee deaths despite not having enough information about the products. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) can grant a five-year provisional license to some products to […]

By David Ljunggren

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

Jan. 25, 2016 at 7:26 pm CST

Fresh off limiting farmers’ use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, the Ontario government now wants public comment on further moves it might make to improve the health of bees and other pollinators in the province. Among the “potential actions” up for consideration in the province’s new draft action plan are the use […]

By Staff