Insights and Stories on Soybeans

Jul. 17, 2019 at 8:45 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Until the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues its next acreage report, expect the Chicago Board of Trade to remain stuck within a range, a trader said. “Until the August report and the USDA verifies the plenty of preventative planting acres, and if August happens to be hot and […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Jul. 8, 2019 at 5:55 pm CDT

Delmar Commodities is set to be sold to Ceres Global Ag, an integrated commodity group with operations throughout North America. The Winkler, Man. grain, oilseed and processing firm was founded by Martin Harder in 1995 from castoff elevators during the grain sector’s consolidation push at the time. Harder left the […]

By GFM Staff

Jul. 3, 2019 at 6:19 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Chicago Board of Trade markets were volatile following Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture’s acreage report, which saw more corn acres and fewer soybeans than expected. “We had a sharp break, but now we’re starting to recover a bit,” said Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. in Illinois. USDA’s […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Jun. 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade may have run into some profit-taking resistance, but underlying concerns over wet fields and lost acres should keep the general uptrend in place heading through the summer. “I don’t think this weather story is anywhere near over,” said […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 6, 2019 at 6:12 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he was concerned that China could broaden its crackdown on Canada’s exports, and that he might seek a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month. China has already blocked imports of Canadian canola seed and looks […]

By David Ljunggren, Kelsey Johnson