Insights and Stories on Corn

U.S. grains: Wheat firms on bargain buying, corn follows suit

Oct. 18, 2023 at 6:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rose for the first time in three sessions on bargain buying on Wednesday, with corn futures following, traders said. Wheat futures also gained a mid-session boost on rekindled market speculation that India, a leading wheat producer, may be tight on supplies. India raised […]

Klassen: Ontario demand sets the price structure for calves

Oct. 18, 2023 at 3:12 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. grains: Soybeans hold firm with harvest, domestic demand in focus

Oct. 17, 2023 at 4:56 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

Fund short position grows in canola

Oct. 16, 2023 at 7:44 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat down off two-week high on global demand

Oct. 16, 2023 at 7:16 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hog, cattle futures decline

Oct. 16, 2023 at 7:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock markets weakened on Monday, with lean hog futures nearing their lowest price in more than four months. Concerns about lacklustre demand for U.S. pork continued to hang over the market, analysts said. Seasonally, hog futures also tend to decline around this time […]

By Tom Polansek

Russia destroyed 300,000 tonnes of grain since July in attacks, Kyiv says

Oct. 13, 2023 at 7:33 pm CDT

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia has destroyed almost 300,000 metric tonnes of grain since July in attacks on Ukraine’s port facilities and on ships, the Ukrainian government said on Friday, underscoring the war’s threat to global food security. In summer, Moscow quit a U.N.-brokered deal that had allowed exports of […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slip on profit taking, macro pressure

Oct. 13, 2023 at 7:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures retreated on Friday on profit-taking after hitting two-week highs in the previous session and as souring consumer sentiment and inflation worries hung over the market. Corn futures followed soybeans lower, but wheat rallied after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported stronger-than-expected weekly […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans surge after USDA projects smaller soy, corn crops

Oct. 12, 2023 at 5:24 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Chicago soybean and corn futures shot up on Thursday following a closely watched U.S. government report forecasting a smaller corn and soybean harvest than previously projected, and below an average of analysts’ estimates. The Chicago Board of Trade’s (CBOT) most-active soybean futures contract jumped about […]

By Zachary Goelman

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets react bullishly to USDA report

Oct. 12, 2023 at 4:38 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Most of the October world agricultural supply/demand estimates (WASDE) released Thursday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) came out lower than trade expectations, causing price jumps on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). “Many people were not expecting a major (average) yield change,” Ryan Ettner, trader for […]

By Adam Peleshaty