Insights and Stories on Crops

CBOT weekly outlook: Grains show strength as 2022 comes to close

Dec. 28, 2022 at 5:53 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite lighter trading on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) due to the holiday season, grain markets were still on the move before and after Christmas. Ryan Ettner, a commodity broker for Allendale Inc. at McHenry, Ill., said that while most high-volume traders will still be away for […]

U.S. grains: Soy firm on Argentina weather, China demand hopes

Dec. 28, 2022 at 5:47 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. FDA reported weighing CBD regulation in food, supplements

Dec. 27, 2022 at 5:07 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans end higher

Dec. 27, 2022 at 4:50 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mostly higher

Dec. 27, 2022 at 1:16 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

China must raise self-reliance in ag tech, Xi says

Dec. 27, 2022 at 12:15 am CST

Beijing | Reuters — President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on, state media reported. The central leadership had said in 2020 that the country’s seed industry was a weak link in the […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Freezing temperatures threaten winter wheat, lift prices

Dec. 23, 2022 at 7:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures climbed on Friday, gaining for a second consecutive week as frigid temperatures threaten winter wheat crops across the U.S. Plains and into the Midwest. Fresh export activity in soybeans and corn added support, though gains were limited by much-needed rainfall in Argentina that […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soybeans ease on South American rainfall

Dec. 22, 2022 at 4:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures dropped on Thursday, pressured by South American forecasts for more rain which could relieve parched soy crops in Argentina. Corn and wheat weakened, holding on to some of the previous day’s gains as extreme winter weather threatens winter wheat crops in the U.S. […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Railways over revenue cap in drought year, CTA finds

Dec. 22, 2022 at 3:52 pm CST

Despite a dramatically lower Prairie grain handle in the last crop year, the Western Grains Research Foundation can expect a $5.7 million gift card from Canada’s big two railways by the end of next month. The Canadian Transportation Agency, which sets the maximum revenue entitlements (MREs) each crop year for […]

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Alberta barley bids steady heading into holidays

Dec. 22, 2022 at 2:39 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The Lethbridge feed grain market is holding relatively steady heading into the holiday season, with ample imports of corn from the U.S. keeping a lid on prices. Reports out of Alberta’s feedlot alley peg the upper edge of delivered barley bids in the $430-$435 area, with feed wheat […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin