Insights and Stories on Acreage

May. 30, 2019 at 4:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures rose 4.1 per cent on Thursday, bouncing back from some technical weakness on Wednesday as traders focused on the historic slow pace of planting in the Midwest. Prices, which hit their highest in nearly three years this week, needed to continue to rally […]

By Mark Weinraub

Apr. 23, 2019 at 5:24 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Unpredictable weather overseas resulted in robust fababean prices during 2018’s harvest, and Canadian producers expect these prices to hold throughout the 2019 growing season. “For the growers that managed to get fababeans off their field, I think they were probably quite happy with the markets in 2018,” said […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Apr. 9, 2019 at 7:22 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — India’s tariffs on Canadian pulses hit green and yellow peas particularly hard over the past year — and the market is still hurting as producers plan acres for 2019. Since yellow pea exports dropped significantly in the middle of the year, “there’s going to be a lot of […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Apr. 5, 2019 at 5:25 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Since chickpea prices fell rapidly during last year’s harvest, the jury is out as to what the chickpea market holds this year. “Acres are going to be down this year because the price isn’t what it was a year ago,” said Melody Ector, president of Diefenbaker Spice and […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Apr. 5, 2019 at 4:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped on Friday as uncertainty about the timing and details of a potential trade deal with China caused investors to lock in some profits from recent gains, traders said. End-of-week profit-taking also weighed on the corn and wheat markets. The drop in corn […]

By Mark Weinraub