Insights and Stories on Crops

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop prices soften after USDA report release

Aug. 17, 2022 at 6:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — An unexpectedly bearish supply/demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last Friday is still putting pressure on crop prices nearly a week later, according to one trader. In the department’s WASDE report, the estimated average yield for corn was revised downward from the month before by […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans steady

Aug. 17, 2022 at 5:54 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea harvest approaches amid low worldwide supplies

Aug. 16, 2022 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Grains fall on weather, Ukrainian exports

Aug. 16, 2022 at 6:32 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

CP arbitration ends in two-year deal for engineers, conductors

Aug. 15, 2022 at 8:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Soy dives on China’s economic uncertainty

Aug. 15, 2022 at 7:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybeans fell on Monday, pressured by forecasts for beneficial rainfall in parts of the U.S. Midwest and unexpected data from China that suggested declining demand for U.S. agricultural commodities from the country. The People’s Bank of China cut key interest rates on weaker-than-expected economic data […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Prairie cash wheat: Bids show some strength

Aug. 12, 2022 at 7:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Thursday, taking back most of the losses from the previous week as gains in U.S. futures provided support. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $12-$15.50 per tonne […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Chicago soy futures bounce back after USDA forecasts

Aug. 12, 2022 at 7:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures turned higher on Friday, as traders questioned a surprisingly large record-crop forecast and focused instead on August weather as recent hot and dry days threaten key U.S. growing areas. Soybean futures slid sharply after the U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast U.S. soy […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Wheat, soybeans buck expectations in USDA report

Aug. 12, 2022 at 6:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Projected average yields and production for wheat and soybeans for 2022-23 went against many analysts’ expectations, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA released its monthly world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) on Friday, which surprisingly showed upward revisions for average yields and production despite […]

By Adam Peleshaty

First Ukraine grain deal ship docks in Turkey

Aug. 12, 2022 at 2:16 am CDT

Istanbul | Reuters –– The first grain ship to depart from Ukraine under a U.N.-brokered deal docked in Turkey on Thursday after 11 days at sea, Refinitiv data showed, and the ship’s agent in Turkey said it would continue to Egypt after unloading part of its cargo. The Razoni set […]

By Reuters