Insights and Stories on Crops

Is your water supply helping or hurting your tank mix?

Oct. 28, 2022 at 12:00 am CDT

Weed control in fields can be a challenge for growers in some years due to multiple factors, but have you considered the water you use in your tank mix as one of them? At the 2022 Crop Diagnostic School, Kim Brown-Livingston with Manitoba Agriculture stressed the importance of testing your […]

U.S. grains: Corn futures end down as U.S. export sales disappoint traders

Oct. 27, 2022 at 4:18 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Feed weekly outlook: Good quality, yields amid rising feed prices

Oct. 27, 2022 at 3:32 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm

Unions rip supply chain report’s language on strikes

Oct. 27, 2022 at 8:52 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

Oct. 27, 2022 at 8:40 am CDT

By Simon Jessop

U.S. grains: Wheat rebounds from one-month low amid Ukraine export uncertainty

Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose on Wednesday amid uncertainty about exports from war-torn Ukraine, analysts said, while gains in corn and soybean futures evaporated. Concerns about Ukraine increased as data from the country’s agriculture ministry showed that grain exports have slowed over the past 10 days, with volumes […]

By Tom Polansek

ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola market due for a move

Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:17 pm CDT

MarketsFarm – The ICE Futures canola market largely held within its well-established sideways trading range during the week ended Oct. 26, with only the nearby November contract breaking higher as short-covering ahead of its expiry gave the month a boost. The January contract has held in a narrow range between […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans shift into wintertime trading

Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:13 pm CDT

MarketsFarm – As the United States soybean harvest surpassed 80 per cent complete, trading of the commodity on the Chicago Board of Trade slipped into wintertime mode, according to broker Ryan Ettner of Allendale Inc. “Switching to wintertime trading means we are going to put more focus on South American […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CropLife not driving CFIA policy, agency says

Oct. 26, 2022 at 8:50 am CDT

The National Farmers Union and a clutch of other organizations have asked Canada’s federal ag minister to replace the president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, citing questions about the provenance of regulatory proposals on gene-edited seed. CFIA officials, however, reject the NFU’s allegation that the metadata attached to the […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Wheat futures slip to one-month low as soybeans advance

Oct. 25, 2022 at 4:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a one-month low on Tuesday under pressure from expectations for rain in dry global growing areas and for continued exports of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea region. Soybean and corn futures advanced. Weather forecasts for showers in […]

By Tom Polansek