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U.S. grains: Wheat retreats on harvest pressure; corn, soybeans end lower

Jun. 9, 2025 at 5:48 pm CDT

U.S. wheat futures fell about two per cent on Monday on seasonal pressure from the start of the Northern Hemisphere winter wheat harvest and corn futures sagged on mostly favorable crop weather, traders said.

Unsettled weather for Prairies

Jun. 9, 2025 at 3:39 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

A group of cattle in an Alberta feedlot in the summer.

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend record highs

Jun. 9, 2025 at 3:30 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Fusarium-infected wheat heads in a wheat field near Stockholm, Sask.

Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat

Jun. 9, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

U.K. wheat output to swing higher in 2025/26

Jun. 9, 2025 at 1:36 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

China wants slimmer pigs

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on the speculative practice to slim down hogs and stabilize the market.

By Ella Cao Lewis Jackson Reuters

A tractor and air seeder seeding into standing stubble.

Tariffs on canola seen supercharging Canadian farmers’ shift to spring wheat

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:16 am CDT

The prospect of Chinese and U.S. tariffs on canola have prompted Western Canadian farmers to seed more wheat.

By Ed White Reuters

Supply management bill goes straight to Senate

Jun. 6, 2025 at 3:55 pm CDT

The future of the system used in Canadian dairy, egg and poultry production will once again be the focus of political debate

By Karen Briere

World food prices dip in May as cereal, sugar and vegoils drop

Jun. 6, 2025 at 3:51 pm CDT

Global food commodity prices declined in May, driven by marked drops in cereal, sugar, and vegetable oil prices, the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.

By Reuters Sybille De La Hamaide