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May. 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rallied on Tuesday, even after India said it would allow overseas wheat shipments awaiting customs clearance, as traders focused on an unrelenting question roiling global prices: Where will the world get its grain? The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

May. 16, 2022 at 8:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — If there could be one benefit to the excessive moisture across much of southern Manitoba and the Interlake region, that would be a potentially reduced risk for insect pests, according to John Gavloski, entomologist for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Resource Development. For example, Gavloski cited flea beetles, which […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

May. 16, 2022 at 7:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures hit their daily 70-cent trading limit cap on Monday after India banned exports of the grain, an abrupt policy change that fanned concerns about global supplies strained by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The wheat rally sent spillover strength to corn futures, as global […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

May. 14, 2022 at 10:51 pm CDT

Mumbai | Reuters — India banned wheat exports on Saturday days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year, as a scorching heat wave curtailed output and domestic prices hit a record high. The government said it would still allow exports backed by already issued letters of credit and […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj, Nigam Prusty, rajendra-jadhav

May. 13, 2022 at 7:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causing widespread property damage and killing at least two people. Straight-line winds up to 170 km/h reached from Kansas to Wisconsin, pushing waves of farmland topsoil across […]

By Christopher Walljasper, P.J. Huffstutter