Insights and Stories on Crops

How to get a uniform canola crop

Feb. 17, 2023 at 9:33 am CST

There are all kinds of factors that will affect the success of any seeded crop. Some factors can be controlled, others can’t. Getting proper stand establishment certainly tops the list of key production practices for all crops, especially for optimizing canola yields, says an agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans end higher in choppy trade

Feb. 16, 2023 at 6:53 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

Feed weekly outlook: Grain bids quietly drift lower

Feb. 16, 2023 at 3:11 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

IGC makes changes in corn, soybean supply outlook

Feb. 16, 2023 at 3:02 pm CST

By MarketsFarm

Nutrien misses profit estimates amid higher fertilizer prices

Feb. 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm CST

By Sourasis Bose

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy down on stronger U.S. dollar, interest rate fears

Feb. 15, 2023 at 6:15 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell more than two per cent on Wednesday and corn and soybeans followed the trend lower, pressured by a stronger U.S. dollar and fears of more interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, analysts said. Fundamental news for grains and oilseeds was thin, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

ICE weekly outlook: Canola drifting lower

Feb. 15, 2023 at 5:23 pm CST

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts drifted lower during the week ended Wednesday, although values remained rangebound overall. “The market is maybe coming to the realization that we still have near-record South American (soybean) supplies on hand,” Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg said of the downtrend. While Argentina […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Values pull back from upper ranges

Feb. 15, 2023 at 4:33 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite some bullish influences, commodity prices at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) were stepping back in mid-February. That movement wasn’t a surprise to Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodity Brokers in Barrington, Ill. Prices for corn, soybeans and wheat had been at the upper end of their ranges, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Mexico opens door for GM corn in feed, industrial uses

Feb. 14, 2023 at 8:13 pm CST

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico on Monday scrapped a deadline to ban genetically modified corn for animal feed and industrial use amid trade tensions with the United States — but retained plans to prohibit use of the GM grain for human consumption, as well as the herbicide glyphosate. The […]

By Adriana Barrera Cassandra Garrison

U.S. grains: Soy eases off multi-month highs

Feb. 14, 2023 at 6:38 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Tuesday on profit-taking after Monday’s multi-month highs and fundamental pressure from the advancing harvest of a likely record-large soy crop in Brazil, analysts said. Corn and wheat drifted lower in technical moves with worries about a global recession adding to bearish […]

By Julie Ingwersen