Insights and Stories on Soybeans

Feb. 25, 2015 at 7:46 pm CST

Quebec has lost its last path of appeal against an interprovincial trade panel’s decision on restrictions for sales of vegetable oil-based dairy products in the province. An appellate panel, convened under the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), on Wednesday released a Jan. 26 report which upholds an AIT panel’s ruling last spring, […]

By Staff

Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:29 pm CST

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as continued good export demand for U.S. soybeans was bullish. Brazil’s slower than normal harvest pace and its logistics problems related to a trucker strike both led to strong export demand for the […]

By Terryn Shiells

Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:10 pm CST

Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at […]

By Chris Prentice, Rod Nickel

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers staged nearly 100 roadblocks across Brazil’s farm belt on Wednesday as protests stretched into their eighth day, though access to the country’s biggest port was cleared after police clashed with protesters who had briefly halted traffic there. The steadily widening blockades have sparked growing […]

By Marcelo Teixeira, Reese Ewing

Feb. 25, 2015 at 11:43 am CST

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Soybean acres in Canada — particularly Western Canada — are expected to be on the rise, according to an analyst. “I’m basing that on new varieties as well as price,” Chris Beckman, oilseeds analyst for the grains and oilseeds division of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, […]

By Dave Sims, Phil Franz-Warkentin