Insights and Stories on Crops

U.S. to boost biofuel mandates over next three years

Jun. 22, 2023 at 1:29 pm CDT

Reuters — The Biden administration on Wednesday increased the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into the United States’ fuel mix over the next three years, but the plan has angered the biofuel industry, which says mandates for corn-based ethanol and biodiesel are not high enough. The U.S. […]

Canada Bread fined $50 million over price-fixing

Jun. 22, 2023 at 6:41 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market rising into summer

Jun. 21, 2023 at 8:01 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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CBOT weekly outlook: Weather fuels rallies in grain prices

Jun. 21, 2023 at 7:50 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat rally to multi-month highs on weather concerns

Jun. 21, 2023 at 7:34 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures steady; wheat mixed

Jun. 20, 2023 at 6:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures steadied on Tuesday after the market rallied sharply at the end of last week on concerns that hot and dry weather will lead to harvest shortfalls. The market remained underpinned by the most recent forecasts, which remained unfavourable for key growing […]

By Mark Weinraub

Mexican president moves to prioritize domestic corn for tortillas

Jun. 19, 2023 at 4:54 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico’s president announced on Monday he will sign an agreement this week with makers of the country’s food staple tortillas that ensures they only use non-genetically modified (GM) white corn while also setting new tariffs on imports of the grain. Tariffs on white corn imports […]

By Cassandra Garrison

Pulse weekly outlook: Fewer growers signing up their green lentils

Jun. 19, 2023 at 4:49 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There has been a divergence of prices between green and red lentils so far in 2023, according to Levon Sargsyan of Johnston Grains at Weyburn, Sask. Sargsyan said he hasn’t seen too many acres of green lentils signed up for this year, while it’s the opposite case for […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Farm groups push for Bill C-234 passage

Jun. 19, 2023 at 6:11 am CDT

Prairie farm groups are pushing the Senate to prioritize a bill that would exempt propane and natural gas for grain drying and barn heating from carbon tax. In a joint statement June 13, Keystone Agricultural Producers, the Alberta Federation of Agriculture and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan urged the […]

By Alexis Stockford

Prairie Forecast Update: Alberta low to break in two

Jun. 19, 2023 at 1:57 am CDT

So far, the general forecast seems to be on track, but there have been some changes. The area of low pressure expected to develop and move north through Alberta is still on track but the weather models now it show it winding itself up across central and northern Alberta on […]

By Daniel Bezte