Insights and Stories on Soybeans

Brazil soy exports likely to slow after fire near Santos port

Apr. 8, 2015 at 10:33 am CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s soy exports will likely slow because a six-day fire at a nearby fuel-storage facility has restricted access to Brazil’s largest port, Santos, a port official and the soy industry association Abiove said on Tuesday. Authorities have agreed to restrict truck access to some terminals […]

CBOT weekly: Corn, soy look to test post-report floors, ceilings

Apr. 1, 2015 at 4:52 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Soybeans cut swath through Prairie wheat belt

Mar. 27, 2015 at 5:51 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

Mar. 23, 2015 at 7:15 pm CDT

By Staff

Argentine soy stocks double as farmer-government tensions rise

Mar. 21, 2015 at 4:59 am CDT

By Hugh Bronstein

Ont. ag minister to review GFO proposal on bee health, neonics

Mar. 13, 2015 at 7:51 pm CDT

Ontario corn and soybean growers have secured a meeting with the provincial ag minister on the farmers’ proposed Plan B to balance crop pest control against bee health. Grain Farmers of Ontario said Thursday its representatives will meet March 26 with Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal to discuss the proposals laid […]

By Staff

Team approach makes for success at Blythe Brae Farms

Mar. 13, 2015 at 10:37 am CDT

Go with your strengths. Then find resource people to help you fill in the gaps. That’s one of the guiding management principles of mother-daughter duo Sharon Hart and Valerie Hobbs who own and manage Blythe Brae Farms near Woodstock, Ont. Hart and Hobbs share responsibility for operations, finance, human resources […]

By Helen Lammers-Helps

CBOT weekly: Bullish U.S. dollar seen pinning grain futures

Mar. 11, 2015 at 5:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures remained largely unchanged over the past week but a bullish U.S. dollar, currently outperforming many of the world’s other currencies, will keep the long-term bias pointed lower, according to a U.S. analyst. “We’re going to need a weather event, […]

By Dave Sims

Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

Mar. 6, 2015 at 4:26 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become “worrying” to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014-15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday. The northern part of […]

By Reuters

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

Mar. 5, 2015 at 2:58 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean […]