Insights and Stories on Crops

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on exports, meal strength

Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:13 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybeans climbed on Tuesday, supported by fresh export sales and contract highs in soybean meal as weather concerns threaten Argentina’s crop, traders said. Wheat ended the session lower after trading near even much of the day, falling to fresh 13-month lows on strong global supplies. […]

Finding efficiencies in fertilizer applications

Dec. 6, 2022 at 5:15 pm CST

Speculative short position grows in canola

Dec. 5, 2022 at 7:44 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat slides to 13-month low

Dec. 5, 2022 at 7:20 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

Corteva to buy biological plant stimulant firm Stoller

Dec. 5, 2022 at 3:28 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Prairie cash wheat: Bids drop with U.S. futures

Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:49 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Thursday, as U.S. wheat futures posted losses — although softness in the Canadian dollar did provide some underlying support. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down by $3.50-$6.40 per […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat plunges to three-month low on export competition

Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:37 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Chicago wheat extended losses on Friday to a fresh three-month low as modest weekly U.S. exports kept traders’ focus on competition from cheaper Black Sea supplies. Corn also fell, while soybeans rebounded, consolidating after a selloff in the previous session over disappointing U.S. biofuels levels. The […]

By Rod Nickel

U.S. judge dismisses indictment against Huawei executive

Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:13 pm CST

New York | Reuters — A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained U.S.-China and Canada-China relations. Meng, whose father Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei and is the telecommunications company’s chief executive, entered […]

By jonathan-stempel Karen Freifeld

StatCan data show smaller Canadian canola, durum production

Dec. 2, 2022 at 2:13 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers grew less canola and durum than originally thought in 2022, but more barley and oats, according to updated production estimates from Statistics Canada released Friday. “There were both bullish and bearish surprises,” MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville said. While canola production of 18.174 million tonnes was […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Huawei executive’s U.S. bank fraud charges to be dismissed

Dec. 1, 2022 at 8:16 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss bank fraud and other charges against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, whose 2018 arrest strained relations between the U.S. and China. Meng struck a deal with the prosecutors last year for the charges against […]

By Karen Freifeld