Insights and Stories on Corn

Nov. 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm CST

CNS Canada – Cattle in “feedlot alley” in Lethbridge, Alta., won’t be seeing corn leave their diets any time soon, according to one feed grain buyer. “The marketplace booked up a fair bit of corn in advance of it, so through September, December and even out into March. So that’s […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Nov. 5, 2018 at 4:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – North American farmers are finding increased levels of a plant toxin known as vomitoxin in this year’s corn harvest, adding insult to injury for growers already suffering as the U.S.-China trade war hurts soybean exports and crop prices. Vomitoxin sickens livestock and can also make humans […]

By Michael Hirtzer, Tom Polansek

Oct. 17, 2018 at 7:26 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade both saw some strength over the past week, and could see some additional upside, according to an analyst. Harvest delays due to poor weather and speculative short-covering accounted for some of the recent strength in the futures, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oct. 11, 2018 at 8:27 pm CDT

CNS Canada — After the wet weather the U.S. Midwest has experienced lately, traders aren’t exactly sold on the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “We’re getting a lot of calls in and people talking about their beans are losing yield left and right, because the pods […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures firmed on Thursday on concerns that several days of rainy weather expected across the U.S. Midwest could disrupt harvesting of what is forecast to be a bumper U.S. crop. Soybeans also drew support from the wet forecast, but shed gains late in the […]

By Karl Plume