Insights and Stories on Crops

Pulse weekly outlook: B.C. port strike drags on exports

Jul. 11, 2023 at 6:40 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As the 11-day-old port workers strike in British Columbia continued to impede exports from Canada’s West Coast, Marcos Mosnaim of Export Packers said the work stoppage was taking a toll on the country’s pulse exports — specifically those exported by container. “So you have cargo held in Vancouver […]

U.S. grains: Soy climbs on supply worries ahead of USDA reports

Jul. 11, 2023 at 6:19 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Nutrien cuts output as West Coast port strike hits day 11

Jul. 11, 2023 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Ismail Shakil Steve Scherer

Ag input firm FMC’s shares tumble after lowering financial targets

Jul. 10, 2023 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy futures climb ahead of key USDA reports

Jul. 10, 2023 at 7:33 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Richardson buys into European malt market

Jul. 10, 2023 at 4:30 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Canada’s biggest grain merchant Richardson International is entering the malt sector through the acquisition of U.K.-based Anglia Maltings Holdings (AMH), targeting rising demand for the beer and whisky ingredient, Richardson said on Friday without disclosing financial terms. Anglia Maltings operates seven malt facilities in the U.K., […]

By Gus Trompiz Rod Nickel

Fund short position hits six-month low in canola

Jul. 10, 2023 at 3:48 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The speculative short position in ICE Futures canola fell to its smallest level in six months at the beginning of July, as fund traders covered short positions and put on some new longs. That’s according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Manitoba sunflowers doing well with fewer acres

Jul. 10, 2023 at 3:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Despite fewer acres under hot and dry conditions, things are going well for Manitoba’s sunflower crop. Out of the 88,000 acres planted for sunflowers across Canada, 77,000 of them are in Manitoba, according to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) principal field crop acreage estimates released June 28. Both figures represent […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie cash wheat: Weather, rising futures lift bids

Jul. 10, 2023 at 3:35 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Dry weather for most of the Prairies, as well as rising wheat prices in the U.S., lifted western Canadian wheat bids, some to more than $400 per tonne, for the week ended July 6. With the exception of thunderstorms and sporadic precipitation in Alberta, dryness persisted across much […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn drop on improved crop weather

Jul. 7, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Friday as recent welcome rains across the Midwest farm belt, and forecasts for more next week, aided crops that had been suffering under an early season drought. Soybeans, which notched a four-month high on Monday, ended down 1.9 per […]

By Karl Plume