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CBOT Weekly: Prices tumble, uncertainty ahead

Jun. 25, 2025 at 2:50 pm CDT

Grain futures fell on the Chicago Board of Trade last week with more uncertainty waiting in the wings.

child's hands hold a cup of Cheerios cereal.

General Mills forecasts weak annual profit as economic uncertainty weighs

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:41 am CDT

By Neil J. Kanatt Reuters

A combine loads wheat into a truck during harvesting in a field of a local agricultural enterprise in the Cherlaksky district of the Omsk region, Russia.

Agricultural consultancy Sovecon raises 2025 Russian wheat crop forecast

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:35 am CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat falls on harvest pressure; corn hits contract lows

Jun. 24, 2025 at 5:11 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tick down on technical selling, cattle mixed

Jun. 24, 2025 at 4:37 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Reuters

USDA notes shifts in Mexican corn

Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm CDT

Corn production in Mexico is projected to increase 6.5 per cent in 2025/26, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Mexico City reported. Meanwhile, the country’s imports are expected to dip 1.4 per cent.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025.

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.

By Reuters Rodrigo Gutierrez

beef cattle in a feedlot in Western Canada

U.S. livestock: Live cattle slip; feeders, hogs make small gains

Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:50 pm CDT

Chicago live cattle futures slipped on Monday while feeder and lean hog contracts eked out gains.

By Geralyn Wichers

U.S. grains: Soybeans slump on ‘greenhouse’ weather in US

Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:22 pm CDT

Chicago soybean futures eased on Monday as favorable U.S. crop weather took the focus away from U.S. strikes on Iran conducted over the weekend.

By Renee Hickman Reuters

AAFC makes more adjustments to canola numbers

Jun. 23, 2025 at 11:27 am CDT

With exports of Canadian canola still going strong in 2024/25, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada readjusted its estimates in its June supply and demand report.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm