Insights and Stories on Brazil

Feb. 14, 2018 at 5:59 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher over the past week, but may be running into resistance to the upside. “I’m sensing that canola is at the top end of the range,” said Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, noting much of the recent strength was […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 8, 2018 at 3:38 pm CST

CNS Canada — The latest report released from the U.S. Department of Agriculture had no surprises for traders at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), leaving the March corn and soybean contracts little changed. “I think that brokers right now are on the phone talking to their customers, probably some […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Feb. 8, 2018 at 12:57 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Surging export demand for U.S. corn will cut into domestic stockpiles of the grain by more than expected, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday. But U.S. soybean stocks were forecast to rise as a bumper harvest in Brazil will allow overseas buyers to source their […]

By Mark Weinraub

Feb. 7, 2018 at 4:44 pm CST

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazilian antitrust agency Cade on Wednesday approved Bayer’s proposed takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto without requiring further asset sales beyond a global proposal announced last October. Cade’s commissioners voted 4-2 in favour of the tie-up under an agreement, negotiated between the companies and global antitrust […]

By Bruno Federowski, Leonardo Goy

Feb. 5, 2018 at 7:58 pm CST

Reuters — Nutrien, the Canadian fertilizer and farm supply dealer created from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp this year, said it expected demand growth for potash in China and India to cool down in 2018. Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company by capacity, also said higher input costs would […]

By Reuters