Insights and Stories on Crops

Cargill agrees to sell stake in Russian grain terminal

Sep. 14, 2023 at 5:29 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S.-based commodities trader Cargill said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its stake in a Russian grain terminal to Russia’s Delo Group. “In line with Cargill’s earlier announcement to stop the export of Russian grain in July 2023, we can confirm we have reached an agreement with […]

Canada bumps up wheat harvest view, trims canola estimate

Sep. 14, 2023 at 1:25 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

ICE weekly outlook: Harvest pressure to weigh on canola

Sep. 14, 2023 at 1:46 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Prices for U.S. soybeans, corn where they should be

Sep. 14, 2023 at 1:37 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies on Black Sea tensions

Sep. 13, 2023 at 5:03 pm CDT

By Zachary Goelman

Thunder Bay grain shipments up on year

Sep. 13, 2023 at 1:45 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Grain shipments through the Port of Thunder Bay are running well ahead of the year-ago level, with 3.747 million tonnes of grain shipped through the port on the northern shores of Lake Superior as of Aug. 31. That was up by 1.1 million tonnes from the previous year’s […]

By MarketsFarm

EU ag commissioner pushes for extension of Ukraine grain import ban

Sep. 12, 2023 at 6:47 pm CDT

Brussels/Bucharest | Reuters — The EU agriculture commissioner said on Tuesday said he believes the European Commission should extend a temporary ban on Ukraine imports into five neighouring EU states, as the measure helped boost exports outside the bloc. Ukraine has become entirely dependent on alternative European Union routes, called […]

By Julia Payne Luiza Ilie

USDA adjusts soy, corn outlooks in September report

Sep. 12, 2023 at 6:39 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture made a number of slight changes to its forecast on soybeans and corn for 2023-24, while keeping its domestic wheat numbers from August. USDA on Tuesday issued its monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates, adjusting its forecast on this year’s soybean yields […]

By MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan production, yields ‘slightly lower’

Sep. 12, 2023 at 6:31 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Dale Risula, Saskatchewan’s provincial specialist for pulses, forages and specialty crops, said that while this year’s harvest is progressing well, he expects average-at-best pulse production this year. As of Sept. 4, the province’s dry pea harvest was 92 per cent complete, while 91 per cent of the lentil […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Numerous revisions to USDA’s data on Canadian canola

Sep. 12, 2023 at 5:35 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canola production numbers for Canada as estimated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture underwent several changes for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 crop years. The data for Canada was among the estimates USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) put in its monthly report, Oilseeds: World Market and Trade. The FAS […]

By MarketsFarm