Insights and Stories on Crops

U.S. grains: Corn hits one-month high on weather worries

May. 26, 2023 at 6:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn futures reached a one-month high on Friday as forecasts for dry weather in the U.S. Midwest kept attention on early risks to this year’s crop. Soybean and wheat futures also rose, with the agricultural markets posting weekly gains following recent declines […]

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat bids drop

May. 26, 2023 at 6:33 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm

Happy trails

May. 26, 2023 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Agco, Kubota sign onto U.S. right-to-repair pledge

May. 26, 2023 at 9:54 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Weak export demand, rising U.S. dollar pressure soy, corn

May. 25, 2023 at 6:21 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Viterra in talks to merge with Bunge, source says

May. 25, 2023 at 4:01 pm CDT

Reuters — Global grain trader Viterra is in talks to merge with U.S. rival Bunge Ltd., according to a person familiar with the matter, in a potential mega-deal that would reshape the top tier of global grains merchants. There is no certainty that Viterra, part-owned by Switzerland-based mining and trading […]

By Anirban Sen

Feed weekly outlook: Rain falls, grain prices to follow

May. 25, 2023 at 10:58 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices in Western Canada are showing the usual seasonal weakness as spring seeding continues, but prices are set to fall further. “I think as we get going, (prices) are going to lower down quite a bit,” Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities Ltd. at Lethbridge said. “The […]

By Adam Peleshaty

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t bank on $700 canola, analyst suggests

May. 25, 2023 at 12:58 am CDT

MarketsFarm — New-crop canola prices on ICE Futures seemed to be destined to remain well below $700 per tonne, according to analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. “The market tends to be back where it came from,” Anderson said, stressing that chances of canola pushing higher requires fresh […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Better growing conditions despite dryness, smoke

May. 24, 2023 at 11:05 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While dry conditions persist across the Prairies, the current situation for pulses is not as bad as during the two previous springs, according to Pulse Canada’s director of market access and trade policy. Mac Ross said dryness is largely evident across Western Canada and many crops are still […]

By Adam Peleshaty

CBOT weekly outlook: Chicago soy, corn find chart support

May. 24, 2023 at 9:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade were testing lows in mid-May but appeared to have found some support for the time being. “We’re getting a little technical bounce off these lows,” said John Weyer, director of commercial hedging with Walsh Trading in Chicago. He […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin