Insights and Stories on Crops

U.N. held talks in Russia on Monday on grain, fertilizer exports

Oct. 9, 2023 at 8:24 pm CDT

United Nations | Reuters — Top United Nations trade official Rebeca Grynspan met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday for talks aimed at enabling the “unimpeded access” to global markets for grain and fertilizer from Russia and Ukraine, a U.N. spokesperson said. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths also attended […]

U.S. grains: Corn falls, soy eases as focus moves to U.S. harvest

Oct. 9, 2023 at 7:53 pm CDT

By Zachary Goelman

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures fall as harvest accelerates

Oct. 6, 2023 at 7:19 pm CDT

By Zachary Goelman

Turning back the clock with grazing

Oct. 6, 2023 at 4:04 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Feed weekly outlook: Lack of overseas demand brings down prices

Oct. 5, 2023 at 7:20 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat rises on Black Sea tensions

Oct. 5, 2023 at 7:03 pm CDT

Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rallied on Thursday, boosted more than three per cent on reports of new tensions in the Black Sea region. Corn futures hit a one-month peak, breaking out of a recent range holding above a key technical level, and soybeans rose modestly despite lacklustre export demand. […]

By Zachary Goelman

ICE weekly outlook: Canola looking for a spark

Oct. 4, 2023 at 7:41 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market hit its lowest levels in three months on the last trading day of September but has since uncovered some support in the first days of October. Canola “has found a level where it’s stabilized, but there’s not a lot of life right now,” […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest pressure weighing on prices

Oct. 4, 2023 at 7:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As harvests of soybeans, corn and spring wheat advanced in the United States, trader John Weyer of Walsh Commercial Hedging Services said the pressure on those commodities was going to continue over coming weeks. “We might test some technical levels, see some selloffs a bit and get some […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Britain says Russia may target civilian shipping with mines in Black Sea

Oct. 4, 2023 at 7:01 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Russia may use sea mines to target civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports, the British government said on Wednesday citing intelligence. Russia in July pulled out of a deal that had allowed Ukraine to safely ship […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans firm, risk aversion caps gains

Oct. 4, 2023 at 3:49 pm CDT

Reuters — Chicago soybean futures edged up on Wednesday, as a declining U.S. dollar lifted the oilseeds at one point nearly one per cent before risk aversion pushed prices back toward their opening levels. Wheat declined and corn was squeezed between them in what one strategist called a seasonal “bottoming […]

By Zachary Goelman