Insights and Stories on International

Panama Canal water levels at historic lows, restrictions to remain

Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:29 am CDT

Panama City | Reuters — The Panama Canal’s water levels have not recovered enough as the end of the rainy season approaches and limits on daily transit and vessel draft will stay in place for the rest of the year and throughout 2024, the waterway’s authority said on Tuesday. The […]

Pulse weekly outlook: Poor monsoon rains cut into India production

Sep. 5, 2023 at 6:35 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Fund long position edges higher in canola

Sep. 5, 2023 at 6:26 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Australian crop estimates adjusted slightly lower

Sep. 5, 2023 at 6:17 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat up off three-month low as Australian crop declines

Sep. 5, 2023 at 6:01 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs near one-month high on export outlook

Sep. 5, 2023 at 5:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures neared a one-month high on Tuesday on expectations for increased U.S. pork exports and tightening supplies. Demand for U.S. pork is benefiting as high pig prices in Europe cause global importers to shift some business to the United States, where […]

By Tom Polansek

Turkey’s Erdogan says Black Sea grain deal can be restored soon

Sep. 4, 2023 at 5:55 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday that it would soon be possible to revive the grain deal that the United Nations says helped to ease a food crisis by getting Ukrainian grain to market. Russia quit the deal in […]

By Reuters

Concord seeding equipment brand to be discontinued

Sep. 1, 2023 at 10:47 pm CDT

A brand of air seeding equipment dating back almost five decades in North Dakota and beyond is poised to disappear in the 2024 model year. Concord — a brand owned since 2021 by an arm of Swedish seeding, planting and tillage equipment firm Väderstad — will no longer be sold […]

By Dave Bedard

Putin to meet Erdogan amid push to revive grain deal

Sep. 1, 2023 at 7:22 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan on Monday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi as Ankara and the United Nations seek to revive a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis. Russia quit the deal in […]

By Guy Faulconbridge

U.S. grains: Wheat dips after earlier strength

Sep. 1, 2023 at 7:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat prices reversed earlier gains to close lower on Friday, as markets weighed tight global stocks against the prospect of hefty Russian wheat production and efforts to renew a Black Sea grain deal. Chicago soybeans and corn also climbed after month-end positioning pushed futures lower […]

By Christopher Walljasper