Insights and Stories on Corn

White House directs U.S. GMO regulators to update oversight

Jul. 2, 2015 at 9:34 pm CDT

Reuters — The White House on Thursday directed the three U.S. agencies that oversee biotech crop products to improve and modernize their regulatory “framework” to boost public confidence in a system that critics call a failure. The order, announced in a statement by President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and […]

U.S. grains: Weather uncertainty lifts corn to six-month peak

Jul. 2, 2015 at 3:12 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Wheat crumbles after hitting six-month high

Jul. 1, 2015 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: USDA data ignite biggest daily rallies in five years

Jun. 30, 2015 at 5:53 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather seen steering soybeans

Jun. 30, 2015 at 5:00 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

U.S. livestock: Corn prices drop CME feeder cattle limit down

Jun. 30, 2015 at 4:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Thinly traded Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures closed down their 4.5-cent/lb. maximum daily limit on Tuesday, responding to steep corn market gains, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures jumped nearly eight per cent after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bullish grain report. Pricey […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. corn, soy stocks grow less than expected

Jun. 30, 2015 at 4:12 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. soybeans and corn stocks ballooned from a year ago but still missed market forecasts as strong demand ate into supplies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Wheat supplies were bigger than expected. U.S. wheat has struggled on the export market and weak prices for […]

By Mark Weinraub

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

Jun. 29, 2015 at 6:28 pm CDT

Ontario’s corn and soybean grower group is taking the province’s planned regulations on the use and sale of pesticide-treated seed to court. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) said Monday it filed a request late last week with the provincial Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, seeking a legal “interpretation” of […]

By Staff

U.S. grains: Wheat firms as rain slows harvest

Jun. 29, 2015 at 3:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 2.5 per cent on Monday, closing in positive territory for the sixth time in seven sessions on support from wet weather that has been delaying harvest in key U.S. growing areas, traders said. The concerns about the slow harvest, […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. corn, DDGS imports likely as drought tightens feed supply

Jun. 26, 2015 at 6:25 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Livestock producers in Western Canada will likely have to import feed grains such as corn and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) this year, as drought is seen trimming domestic barley and other feed production. “We’ve seen droughts before, and when it’s happened, usually what has to […]

By Terryn Shiells