Insights and Stories on Crops

Fund long position drops in canola

Sep. 18, 2023 at 5:58 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Fund traders have been busy liquidating long positions and putting on new bearish canola bets in early September. The net managed money long position in the ICE Futures market dropping sharply during the week ended Tuesday (Sept. 12), according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the […]

U.S. grains: Corn down on harvest pressure, demand woes

Sep. 18, 2023 at 5:45 pm CDT

By Zachary Goelman

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat bids mixed, durum lower

Sep. 18, 2023 at 3:11 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Poland, Hungary, Slovakia to continue own bans on Ukraine grain

Sep. 15, 2023 at 6:20 pm CDT

By Alan Charlish Julia Payne

Flax production lowest since 1967, StatCan predicts

Sep. 15, 2023 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soybeans down on positioning, crush pace

Sep. 15, 2023 at 4:20 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Friday on technical selling and profit taking after two sessions of gains, and as a monthly crush report showed U.S. processors handled far fewer beans than expected in August. Corn futures followed soybeans lower, with both markets also pressured by improving […]

By Karl Plume

Getting plants to do your tillage

Sep. 15, 2023 at 11:29 am CDT

Nick Stokman and Ian McDonald have more than 80 years of combined experience in farming, research and extension. Yet they’re relative newcomers to the practice of bio-strip tilling, a means of replacing tillage implements with plants. McDonald, a crop innovation specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural […]

By Ralph Pearce

Few surprises in StatCan report, analyst says

Sep. 14, 2023 at 7:50 pm CDT

MarketsFarm PRO analyst Mike Jubinville said Statistics Canada’s principal field crop production report, released Thursday, did not contain too many surprises. The agency’s previous report on Aug. 29 already provided insight as to what production numbers were going to be, he said, but still warned the model-based projections in the […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: More demand for barley in Alberta

Sep. 14, 2023 at 7:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As Alberta’s harvest continued, yields and crop conditions have varied across the province, according to Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. “There has been such a wide range across the map, it really depends on location,” she said. “We’ve seen some areas that […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on signals of supply, weather concerns

Sep. 14, 2023 at 7:24 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures turned higher amid a volatile trading session on Thursday, as commodities traders wrestled with tight domestic supplies and uncertainty over weather impacts on the current U.S. crop. Analysts said that market participants are focusing on how the recent […]

By Zachary Goelman