Insights and Stories on Corn

COFCO in talks for full ownership of Noble agribusiness

Dec. 15, 2015 at 2:28 pm CST

Reuters — China’s food giant COFCO is in advanced talks to take full ownership of Noble Group’s agribusiness, three sources said, a move which would cement its newfound strength in global agriculture markets and help bolster Noble’s balance sheet. The sources said COFCO was in talks to buy the remaining […]

Argentina’s Macri ditches wheat, corn, beef export taxes

Dec. 15, 2015 at 3:01 am CST

By Hugh Bronstein

U.S. grains: Short-covering, technical buying spur gains

Dec. 14, 2015 at 5:04 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Alberta’s farm worker bill passes, with tweaks

Dec. 12, 2015 at 3:33 pm CST

By Staff

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

Dec. 11, 2015 at 8:04 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat, soybeans end week with losses

Dec. 11, 2015 at 6:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Friday on concern that competition would stiffen on the export market, traders said. Wheat futures also were weak as traders locked in profits from a short-covering bounce that pulled prices from multi-year lows. Soybeans were on track to notch […]

By Mark Weinraub

Dow, DuPont to merge in deal to create chem giant

Dec. 11, 2015 at 9:26 am CST

Reuters — Chemical giants DuPont and Dow Chemical agreed to merge in an all-stock deal valuing the combined company at US$130 billion in a win for activist investors that could spark further consolidation in the farm chemicals industry. The deal to combine two of the biggest and oldest U.S. chemical […]

By Swetha Gopinath

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn extend rally on short-covering

Dec. 10, 2015 at 3:41 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures rose for the third straight day on Thursday, with investors who had made bearish bets on the grains scrambling to cover short positions as the market rallied, traders said. Soybeans also were firmer, but technical resistance and huge supplies kept the […]

By Mark Weinraub

Monsanto-backed panel says glyphosate not carcinogenic

Dec. 10, 2015 at 2:15 am CST

Reuters — A panel of scientists is disputing a World Health Organization report published earlier this year that concluded glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is probably carcinogenic to humans. The 16-member panel, assembled by Intertek Scientific and Regulatory Consultancy, was […]

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn hold in trading range

Dec. 9, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

CNS Canada — Supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture held few surprises and had only limited effects on Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybeans — both rangebound in the short term, according to one U.S.-based analyst. “That report was pretty non-eventful right now,” said Scott […]

By Jade Markus