Insights and Stories on Markets

Roosters’ fertility problem hits U.S. chicken supply

Jul. 9, 2014 at 11:52 am CDT

Reuters — The world’s largest chicken breeder has discovered a key breed of rooster has a genetic issue reducing its fertility, adding to problems constraining U.S. poultry production and raising prices at a time when beef and pork prices are already at record highs. The breed, Aviagen Group’s standard Ross […]

More room to downside for falling wheat futures

Jul. 8, 2014 at 7:08 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Agropur to buy Safeway dairy plants in West

Jul. 8, 2014 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Staff

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall for seventh day, corn dips as crops thrive

Jul. 8, 2014 at 4:41 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Possible Argentina debt default seen reducing corn output

Jul. 8, 2014 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Maximiliano Rizzi

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures drop as funds roll positions

Jul. 8, 2014 at 4:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Tuesday settled lower as funds rolled their positions by selling the August contract and buying deferred months, traders said. Funds trading in CME’s live cattle and hog markets shifted August long positions further back in a procedure known as […]

By Theopolis Waters

Grain exporters to feel price pain as shipping rates to rise

Jul. 8, 2014 at 1:07 pm CDT

London | Reuters — An improved outlook for global bulk shipping rates spells bad news for grain exporters as they go into the latest sales campaign, with increased freight costs squeezing profit margins and adding to price competition in leading markets. U.S wheat exporters look to be the hardest hit […]

By Jonathan Saul

Barley acres down, but not expected to keep declining

Jul. 7, 2014 at 5:42 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canada’s farmers have seeded their smallest barley crop in 50 years, according to Statistics Canada, but an industry official says he doesn’t think it will remain so low in the long-term. StatsCan’s seeded acreage report on June 27 had pegged barley acreage at 6,089,000 acres, down from […]

By Marney Blunt

Spring wheat bids decline for fourth straight week

Jul. 7, 2014 at 5:33 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPRS) continued their downward slide during the week ended Monday, as losses in the U.S. wheat futures weighed on values for the fourth straight week. Average spot bids for CWRS (13.5 per cent […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end slightly lower

Jul. 7, 2014 at 5:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled slightly lower on Monday after touching a contract high, pressured by profit-taking, traders said. “While nothing is really changed in the long term we’re going to see short-term fluctuations in this market,” Broadbent said. Tight cattle supply and overseas […]

By Meredith Davis