Insights and Stories on Weather

Japan snaps up more Canadian wheat, turns from U.S.

Dec. 12, 2013 at 5:27 am CST

Japan snapped up Canadian wheat for making bread and noodles in a surprise tender that closed Tuesday, ramping up purchases from Canada as its prices fall on bumper harvests. Increased buying from Canada by the world’s sixth-largest importer of the grain is usurping appetite for wheat of similar quality from […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans up 1.4 per cent as demand increases

Dec. 9, 2013 at 5:28 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide on favourable S. America weather

Dec. 6, 2013 at 4:03 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on poor exports

Dec. 5, 2013 at 8:30 pm CST

By Sam Nelson

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall to eight-month low

Dec. 5, 2013 at 8:18 pm CST

By Meredith Davis

U.S. livestock: Hog futures end mixed, live cattle higher

Dec. 4, 2013 at 5:12 pm CST

Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures ended mixed on Wednesday amid pressure from weaker cash prices while concerns about the spread of a fatal piglet disease lent support, analysts and traders said. December hogs settled at a premium to the CME’s lean hog index of 82.25 cents, which also dragged on […]

By Meredith Davis

U.S. grains: Canada’s big crop hits wheat

Dec. 4, 2013 at 3:56 pm CST

U.S. soybean futures were higher on Wednesday, reversing two days of declines, on technical buying despite prospects for a huge soy harvest in South America. “I don’t see any thing fundamental to this, it was technical with buy-stops hit and there also was buying of March $13.20 calls in options, […]

By Sam Nelson

StatsCan shows shockingly large crops all around

Dec. 4, 2013 at 12:34 pm CST

Statistics Canada pegged surprisingly large 2013-14 production figures for many of the crops grown in the country in its final crop report of 2013, released Wednesday. “There’s just no getting around it, this is the biggest crop of Canadian history and it’s basically a shocker all around,” said Mike Jubinville […]

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: Wheat up on export demand, weather worries

Dec. 3, 2013 at 3:57 pm CST

U.S. wheat futures ended higher on Tuesday on growing export demand and a cold snap forecast for late this week that may harm some U.S. wheat, but gains were capped by increased production prospects in Australia. Corn closed firm as well on short-covering and on spillover from the gains in […]

By Sam Nelson

U.S. livestock: Live cattle end higher on gains in cash

Nov. 29, 2013 at 3:36 pm CST

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher in thin trading on Friday supported by stronger cash cattle prices, traders said. Beef packers this week paid $132 per hundredweight (cwt) for cattle in the U.S. Plains, up $1 from last week’s trade, feedlot sources said. U.S. Department of Agriculture data […]

By Meredith Davis