Insights and Stories on Corn

Monsanto slashing 2,600 jobs, buying back shares as sales fall

Oct. 7, 2015 at 4:42 pm CDT

Reuters — Monsanto, one of the world’s largest seed and agrichemical companies, said Wednesday that it was slashing 2,600 jobs and restructuring operations to cut costs in a slumping commodity market. The company, which said it expected low prices for agricultural products to squeeze results well into 2016, also reported […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy rest on USDA report

Oct. 7, 2015 at 4:10 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Slowdown in sales softens fertilizer market

Oct. 7, 2015 at 4:00 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Profit-taking, advancing harvests snap rallies

Oct. 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn tops two-month high

Oct. 6, 2015 at 3:34 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Think Europe’s halting GMOs? It could be heading for more

Oct. 6, 2015 at 12:01 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The large number of European countries opposing GMO cultivation may have given the impression the bloc is putting a brake on GMOs, but with new crops queuing for approval and key countries leaving the door open, output is more likely to grow than wane. Nineteen out […]

By barbara-lewis Sybille De La Hamaide

U.S. grains: Prices rise on technicals, positioning before reports

Oct. 5, 2015 at 6:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. grain and soybean futures strengthened on Monday as technical buying and positioning ahead of U.S. crop reports overshadowed concerns about poor export demand. Soybean oil neared a two-month high. Traders were adjusting positions in the markets before the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issues reports […]

By Tom Polansek

PotashCorp withdraws takeover bid for K+S

Oct. 5, 2015 at 5:56 pm CDT

New York/Frankfurt | Reuters –– PotashCorp said Monday it had withdrawn its 7.9 billion euro (C$11.6 billion) offer for German potash producer K+S, citing a decline in global commodity and equity markets and a lack of engagement by K+S management. K+S shares dropped 24 per cent after Potash announced its […]

By Arno Schuetze greg-roumeliotis

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

Oct. 5, 2015 at 12:53 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific […]

By David Ljunggren

PEDv may have entered U.S. on ‘reusable’ feed bags

Oct. 3, 2015 at 3:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) that killed millions of U.S. pigs over the past two years may have entered the country on large bags typically used to transport feed and other bulk products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The report, dated Sept. 24 and […]

By Danny Na P.J. Huffstutter