Insights and Stories on Crops

USDA’s June WASDE report brings few notable changes

Jun. 9, 2023 at 5:53 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Very few major changes were made in the latest edition of the world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) published Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the 2023-24 crop year, USDA pegged total domestic wheat production at 1.665 billion bushels, slightly higher than the 1.659 billion […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans up as soyoil touches one-month high

Jun. 9, 2023 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Canada gets in on U.S. trade challenge of Mexico’s GM corn ban

Jun. 9, 2023 at 2:27 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Nanotech may be the future of precision crop protection

Jun. 9, 2023 at 11:54 am CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Degelman buys grain bagging, milling equipment firm Renn

Jun. 8, 2023 at 8:05 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rebound

Jun. 8, 2023 at 5:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose on Thursday, bouncing back from a sharp sell-off a day earlier on support from technical buying and concerns about supply disruptions stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war, traders said. Corn and soybeans also closed in positive territory, with old-crop contracts supported by expectations […]

By Mark Weinraub

Feed weekly outlook: Market in a waiting game

Jun. 8, 2023 at 2:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The feed grain market in Western Canada is holding relatively steady for the time being as both buyers and sellers wait to get a better handle on new-crop production. “It’s a waiting game at this point between the farmer and the feedlot,” said grain merchant Jay Janzen of […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Kremlin says ammonia pipeline blast negative for Black Sea grain deal

Jun. 8, 2023 at 2:32 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — The Kremlin said on Thursday that there would be a “negative impact” on the fate of a Black Sea grain deal from a blast which damaged a pipeline used to export Russian ammonia via Ukraine that Moscow wants restarted. The Togliatti-Odesa pipeline, which once pumped up […]

By Reuters

ICE weekly outlook: Canola finds support from funds, weather

Jun. 7, 2023 at 5:48 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — After being in a steady decline over the past month, the ICE Futures canola market was on the rise for the week ended Wednesday. The July canola contract closed Wednesday at $670.30 per tonne, an increase of $20.70 from the week before. Meanwhile, the November canola contract rose […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Brazil justice grants Congress more time on bill limiting Indigenous rights

Jun. 7, 2023 at 5:14 pm CDT

Brasilia | Reuters — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday asked for more time to study a case pitting the country’s Indigenous people against its powerful farm sector, a decision that is likely to give lawmakers more time to pass a measure favouring Big Agriculture. The decision by Justice […]

By Anthony Boadle