Insights and Stories on Crops

Pulse weekly outlook: Pea prices hold steady in weak market

Dec. 13, 2022 at 7:43 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Prices for green and yellow peas in Western Canada have remained quite steady over the last week, largely due to the lack of demand, according to Darwin Hamilton of Kalshea Commodities in Winnipeg. “North American peas are more expensive than the peas coming out of Eastern Europe. A […]

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

Dec. 13, 2022 at 6:27 pm CST

By Steve Gorman

Commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus creates food solutions unit

Dec. 13, 2022 at 5:59 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise

Dec. 13, 2022 at 5:43 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn up on Black Sea export concerns

Dec. 12, 2022 at 7:51 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Prairie cash wheat: U.S. futures drag on bids

Dec. 12, 2022 at 5:26 am CST

MarketsFarm — Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) hit multi-month lows, which put pressure on Western Canadian wheat bids, during the week ended Thursday. Despite tighter wheat supplies in the U.S. and worldwide compared to last year, as well as the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, wheat […]

By MarketsFarm

Belarus to allow Ukraine grain transit with no preconditions, U.N. says

Dec. 12, 2022 at 5:06 am CST

United Nations | Reuters — Belarus told the United Nations on Friday that it would allow, without preconditions, the transit of grain from Ukraine through its territory for export from Lithuanian ports, a U.N. spokesman said. Belarus, used by its ally Russia as a staging ground for Moscow’s Feb. 24 […]

By Michelle Nichols

U.S. lawmakers call for action over Mexico’s GM corn ban

Dec. 12, 2022 at 4:34 am CST

Mexico City | Reuters — A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers called on Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Friday to start consultations under the Canada-U.S.Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA) over Mexico’s ban on genetically modified (GM) corn and the herbicide glyphosate. The letter signed by 24 members of Congress and led […]

By Cassandra Garrison

U.S. grains: Soybeans ease on global stocks

Dec. 9, 2022 at 8:02 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybeans eased on Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) increased its estimate of global ending stocks, though strong exports and South American weather concerns underpinned the market. Corn traded both sides of even, despite an increase in U.S. stockpiles, while wheat eased. The […]

By Christopher Walljasper

USDA supply/demand estimates show only minor updates

Dec. 9, 2022 at 2:38 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Updated supply-and-demand (WASDE) tables from the U.S. Department of Agriculture included only minimal adjustments to the U.S. and world numbers, with larger revisions likely in the New Year. U.S. soybean and wheat ending stocks projections for the current marketing year were left unchanged, while the corn number was […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin