Insights and Stories on Crops

Pulse weekly outlook: 2022 a ‘good year’ for Manitoba pulses, soy

Jan. 3, 2023 at 8:07 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite a rough start to southern Manitoba’s growing season, Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers executive director Daryl Domitruk was content with how 2022 came to pass. “For pulses and soybeans, it was generally a good year as a result of some very good yields in soybeans and some […]

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans sag as traders reduce risk in new year

Jan. 3, 2023 at 7:51 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Bolivia farm region blocks borders, grain transport in protests

Jan. 2, 2023 at 4:51 pm CST

By adam-jourdan Daniel Ramos

Prairie cash wheat: Bids lower despite supportive factors

Dec. 30, 2022 at 8:04 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Grain, price movement ongoing over holidays

Dec. 30, 2022 at 7:46 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soybeans post fourth straight annual gain on supply concerns

Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybeans rose on Friday and posted a sharp yearly rise, amid strong export demand and as drought in major exporter Argentina keeping the focus on supply tensions in the oilseed market. Concerns over drought in Argentina, the world’s largest exporter of soyoil and soymeal, and […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

China to launch grain reserves company in 2023

Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:00 pm CST

Reuters — China’s state-owned grains trader COFCO said on Thursday a new joint venture it has set up with state stockpiler Sinograin to manage the country’s huge grain reserves will officially begin operations next month. The China Enterprise United Grain Reserve Co. Ltd. was established in September, according to the […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as investors track Argentine weather

Dec. 29, 2022 at 5:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures rose on Thursday, after rallying earlier in the day to the highest price since June, as investors tracked forecasts for much-needed rain across Argentine crops and China’s dropping of strict COVID-19 measures. But the price rally was capped by investors looking to capture […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

ICE weekly outlook: Markets rangebound into the New Year

Dec. 28, 2022 at 6:33 pm CST

MarketsFarm — As 2022 comes to an end, a trader stated the commodities market will very likely remain rangebound through the New Year. Ken Ball, of PI Financial in Winnipeg, said there’s heavy spreading, as well as the maneuvering of year-end positions and plenty of liquidation going on at the […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Ship insurers to cancel war cover for Russia, Ukraine from Jan. 1

Dec. 28, 2022 at 6:18 pm CST

London | Reuters — Ship insurers said they are cancelling war risk cover across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, following an exit from the region by reinsurers in the face of steep losses. Reinsurers, who insure the insurers, typically renew their 12-month contracts with insurance clients on Jan. 1, giving them […]

By Carolyn Cohn Jonathan Saul