Insights and Stories on Corn

Mar. 11, 2015 at 5:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures remained largely unchanged over the past week but a bullish U.S. dollar, currently outperforming many of the world’s other currencies, will keep the long-term bias pointed lower, according to a U.S. analyst. “We’re going to need a weather event, […]

By Dave Sims

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:49 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) moved up and down during the week ended Wednesday, but posted losses on the whole as concerns over a truckers’ strike in Brazil subsided. While large South American crop prospects remain a bearish influence in the background, the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:29 pm CST

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as continued good export demand for U.S. soybeans was bullish. Brazil’s slower than normal harvest pace and its logistics problems related to a trucker strike both led to strong export demand for the […]

By Terryn Shiells

Feb. 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm CST

CNS Canada — A mixture of extremely wet conditions in 2014 and a projected dry outlook for southwestern Manitoba are leading one corn expert to predict fewer corn acres in the province in 2015. “The southwest was wet, wet, wet and now they’re expecting to be dry, dry, dry. Neither […]

By Dave Sims

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:31 pm CST

Reuters — Cargill has started selling a variety of genetically modified Syngenta corn seed that previously disrupted U.S. grain trading, now that China has approved imports of the biotech crop. Cargill, one of the top U.S. grain exporters, began selling seed containing the Agrisure Viptera trait last month and scrapped […]

By Tom Polansek