Insights and Stories on General

Jul. 19, 2013 at 2:29 pm CDT

Cooler temperatures and occasional rainfall over the next week will boost U.S. corn and soybean crop prospects, according to Global Weather Monitoring (GWM). • GWM said the U.S. corn crop was void of any threats to pollination next week. • The U.S. corn crop is pollinating, or going through its […]

By Reuters

Jul. 18, 2013 at 5:02 pm CDT

Good crop weather is expected now through autumn in the U.S. Midwest, drought will persist in the Plains states and excessive rainfall will continue in the southeast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) climate update released on Thursday. NOAA climatologists indicated no extreme temperatures or a return of […]

By Reuters

Jul. 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm CDT

U.S. corn and soybean prices retreated for the second straight day on Thursday as forecasts for milder temperatures and slightly more rain across much of the Midwest lessened worries about crop damage. Slight adjustments to weather forecasts have steered the grains markets recently. Corn has been jarred most because the […]

By Karl Plume

Jul. 18, 2013 at 1:41 pm CDT

Spring wheat futures at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange remain stuck in a well established downtrend and are expected to remain pointed lower barring a weather scare or other outside influence. “Looking at a chart, it continues to show some weakness,” said Austin Damiani, a broker with Frontier Futures in Minneapolis. The […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jul. 18, 2013 at 1:31 pm CDT

Barriers for young farmers entering agriculture was the theme of a Canadian Federation of Agriculture roundtable with federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers meeting in Halifax today. “The Canadian agricultural sector is diverse, but the need to support new farmers and remove barriers for new entrants was evident in the […]