Insights and Stories on Corn

Views mixed on impact of crude’s slip for ag markets

Dec. 9, 2015 at 3:03 pm CST

CNS Canada — While just about everyone agrees the plunging price of oil will have a bearish effect on commodity prices, the size and impact of that fall seems to vary. As recently as Nov. 4, crude oil prices were $48.64 a barrel, but since then have fallen to US$37.86, […]

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on weaker dollar, stocks check corn

Dec. 9, 2015 at 2:35 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Dreyfus, Cargill win Brazil port space

Dec. 9, 2015 at 2:24 pm CST

By Priscila Jordao

Dow-DuPont talks driven by weak farm demand, investor pressure

Dec. 9, 2015 at 10:31 am CST

By Sneha Banerjee Swetha Gopinath

CP revises offer for Norfolk Southern, rebuffed again

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:45 pm CST

By Allison Lampert Euan Rocha

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on liquidation ahead of USDA report

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:18 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans extended losses on Tuesday to touch a one-week low on long liquidation and technical selling ahead of a monthly government supply and demand report, more than offsetting strong import demand from China. Corn ticked up, recovering slightly from Monday’s slide of more than two […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop from multi-week highs on profit-taking

Dec. 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Monday for the first time in six sessions and corn dropped after two sessions of gains on profit-taking and as traders took positions ahead of a government crop report due later this week. Wheat futures closed lower as earlier technical buying […]

By Karl Plume

Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

Dec. 7, 2015 at 3:52 am CST

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium has a buyer lined up for a U.S. nitrogen upgrading site it’s been looking to sell since April. Oslo-based fertilizer giant Yara said Thursday it’s made a deal to buy Agrium’s West Sacramento Nitrogen Operations plant for US$27 million (C$36 million) and use the facility instead […]

By Staff

BHP Billiton to cut 76 Sask. potash jobs

Dec. 4, 2015 at 5:34 pm CST

Reuters — Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton will cut 76 jobs from its Canadian potash operations due to low commodity prices, a company spokesperson said on Friday. Work continues on sinking and lining shafts at BHP’s potash mine near Jansen, Sask., about 60 km southeast of Humboldt, according to the spokesperson. […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat extend gains on technical buying

Dec. 4, 2015 at 5:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and wheat rose on Friday, extending steep gains from the previous session on technical buying while soybeans jumped to a one-month high on large export sales of soybeans to China. Thursday’s rally in grains at the Chicago Board of Trade was tied to a […]

By Michael Hirtzer