Insights and Stories on Corn

U.S. grains: Wheat falls to three-month low on ample world supplies

Aug. 28, 2015 at 6:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a three-month low on Friday on signs that U.S. wheat is overpriced in a well-supplied global market, especially given strength in the U.S. dollar. Soybeans rose on worries about dry weather in parts of the Midwest and spillover […]

YOUTH AG-SUMMIT:’Thought leaders’ consider farming’s future

Aug. 28, 2015 at 6:14 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Youth Ag-Summit: One representative’s perspective

Aug. 28, 2015 at 5:05 pm CDT

By Lisa Guenther

Talking up the job: Creating common ground between farmer and consumer

Aug. 28, 2015 at 12:33 pm CDT

By Gord Gilmour

Youth Ag-Summit: Granddaughter of the revolution

Aug. 28, 2015 at 9:53 am CDT

By Lisa Guenther

‘Megatrends’ expected to move ag sector in future

Aug. 28, 2015 at 3:43 am CDT

CNS Canada — Health-conscious customers with money to spend will be looking to purchase more food over the next 20 years, while changing technologies and global economic uncertainty will bring their own challenges. That’s the outlook in a recent report out of Australia, highlighting five megatrends expected to impact the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Youth Ag-Summit: Two to represent at UN meeting

Aug. 28, 2015 at 2:21 am CDT

Two delegates from the 2015 Youth Ag-Summit will be jetting to Rome in October to take part in a meeting of the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security. Australia’s Laura Grubb and Kenya’s Samba Ouma were selected from 80 nominees. Ouma and Grubb are now charged with presenting the […]

By Lisa Guenther

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb as China fears wane

Aug. 27, 2015 at 8:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Benchmark U.S. soybean futures rose 1.5 per cent on Thursday as equity markets stabilized in China, the world’s top soy buyer, and on outlooks for dry weather as the U.S. Midwest growing season winds down, traders said. Corn clung to modest gains on better-than-expected weekly U.S. […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Monsanto, rivals eye next step after Syngenta deal collapse

Aug. 27, 2015 at 10:01 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Monsanto, having ditched an audacious US$46 billion offer for Syngenta, may downshift to a humbler strategy of beefing up its crop protection portfolio through other acquisitions, partnerships and licensing agreements. The deal’s collapse leaves Monsanto, Syngenta and other agrochemical sector companies facing a bleak landscape of […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy to return to weather-based trading

Aug. 26, 2015 at 8:19 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The biggest factor in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybean trading has been the recent volatility in global markets. Once those concerns diminish, however, commodities will start moving with weather again — which is mostly bearish, according to one analyst. “Our markets, really, if you […]

By Jade Markus