Insights and Stories on Crops

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Sep. 19, 2025 at 2:47 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to their lowest in a week on Friday, erasing early gains after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping failed to yield news on soybean exports, analysts said. Corn and wheat futures followed soybeans lower. Additional […]

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

Sep. 19, 2025 at 1:22 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Louis Dreyfus posts higher volumes, lower profits in first half

Sep. 19, 2025 at 1:21 pm CDT

By Gus Trompiz Reuters

Rains slow Saskatchewan harvest: report

Sep. 18, 2025 at 2:51 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pods on a soybean plant in a field near Selkirk, Manitoba in late August, 2024. | Greg Berg photo

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

Sep. 17, 2025 at 4:21 pm CDT

By Robert Arnason

Canola seed pours from a combine into a grain cart.

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

Sep. 17, 2025 at 3:50 pm CDT

Expect canola futures to fall back in the coming months, said analyst Jerry Klassen of Resilient Capital in Winnipeg. Klassen pointed to the Statistics Canada production update and China as two reasons for the coming declines.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT Weekly: Futures rise on multiple factors

Sep. 17, 2025 at 1:58 pm CDT

Different factors caused crop futures on the Chicago Board of Trade to rise during the week ended Sept. 17, 2025.

By Adam Peleshaty

Cereals get harvested near Rathwell, Man.

Manitoba harvest hits halfway mark: report

Sep. 17, 2025 at 11:24 am CDT

Harvest progress in Manitoba hit the halfway mark during the week ended Sept. 16, according to the latest crop report from the provincial agriculture department.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Good news, bad news for fungicides meant to fight stem rot in canola

Sep. 17, 2025 at 11:07 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – An extremely high resistance to a major fungicide, and adaptation to another, are the warning flags raised for canola growers by a report on a major disease’s sensitivity to a handful of fungicides used across the Prairie provinces. First, the good news: overall insensitivity of sclerotinia sclerotiorum […]

By Jeff Melchior

Canadian crop production revised mostly higher from August

Sep. 17, 2025 at 9:02 am CDT

Canadian grain and oilseed production in 2025/26 was likely larger than earlier expectations, as warm temperatures and increased precipitation across the Prairies in August helped crop development, according to updated estimates from Statistics Canada released Sept. 17.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin