Insights and Stories on Markets

Better cash prices expected for canola, post-harvest

Sep. 27, 2014 at 3:02 am CDT

CNS Canada –– Farmers in Western Canada have seen weaker prices on the cash market for canola recently, due to a tumbling futures market and an influx in supply as harvest progresses. Some panic-related farmer selling off the combine, as futures continue to drop, was also contributing to the weakness. […]

U.S. grains: Corn at five-year low, soy four-year low on accelerating harvest

Sep. 26, 2014 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Nearby CME live cattle close up three-cent limit

Sep. 26, 2014 at 5:09 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

PEDv shrinks U.S. hog herd, but low-cost feed limits decline

Sep. 26, 2014 at 4:57 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

EU, Canada dismiss German minister’s threat to block trade pact

Sep. 26, 2014 at 4:36 pm CDT

By David Ljunggren

Canada, EU wrap free trade talks

Sep. 26, 2014 at 3:52 pm CDT

The ratification process can get underway on a Canada/European Union free trade deal now that negotiations have formally concluded, the federal government announced Friday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso released the negotiated text of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic […]

By Staff

Pea prices steady but questions loom over water damage

Sep. 25, 2014 at 6:27 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Questions over quality could be the biggest factor facing pea farmers in Western Canada this year, as a wet summer has caused sprouting, staining and bleaching in crops near the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border. “It was the rain after seeding that hurt us,” said Shannon Friesen, a regional crop […]

By Dave Sims

Sky-high U.S. meat prices will continue, USDA says

Sep. 25, 2014 at 6:16 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Prices for many U.S. meats, already at record highs, continued to increase on a combination of drought and disease that have culled herds, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. Retail beef and veal prices spiked by 4.2 per cent from July to August, the largest […]

U.S. livestock: CME hogs slump as Wall Street tumbles

Sep. 25, 2014 at 5:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed lower on Thursday, pressured by active U.S. stock market selling as the dollar surged to a four-year high, traders and analysts said. The strong dollar makes U.S. goods including pork less attractive to foreign buyers. Hog futures’ losses mounted after […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat sinks as dollar rises

Sep. 25, 2014 at 3:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures plunged more than one per cent on Thursday to a four-year low on fears that a rising dollar could hamper global demand for U.S. exports as global supplies rise to a record high. Corn and soybeans dropped about one per cent on spillover […]

By Karl Plume