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Minnesota fields thrive, Iowa storm damage continues on crop tour

Aug. 20, 2020 at 5:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Scouts on an annual U.S. Midwest crop tour continued to see fields battered by an Aug. 10 derecho storm in central Iowa on Thursday, with corn stalks snapped and ears littering the ground due to the hurricane-like winds. In Iowa, crop prospects swung wildly from field […]

Trump visits Iowa as officials warn storm destroyed corn crops

Aug. 18, 2020 at 7:28 pm CDT

By Andrea Shalal

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn up after USDA confirms massive U.S. crops

Aug. 12, 2020 at 5:37 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Bearish USDA report generates bullish reaction

Aug. 12, 2020 at 4:56 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. farmers to harvest record-large corn crop, second-largest soy crop, USDA says

Aug. 12, 2020 at 12:37 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: WASDE largely neutral for soy, corn

Jun. 11, 2020 at 5:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had a “benign effect” on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to one trader. That’s mainly because U.S. production estimates for corn, wheat, and soybeans were largely unchanged. The U.S. soybean production […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Pandemic drives Chicago prices lower

Apr. 1, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to pressure U.S. markets, including the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to Scott Capinegro, president of Barrington Commodities at Barrington, Ill. “It’s like that movie Groundhog Day. You wake up and it’s the same thing every day,” Capinegro said. There’s a domino […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Expected U.S. soybean, corn yields down

Sep. 12, 2019 at 8:57 pm CDT

MarketsFarm –– The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) September supply and demand report saw downward revisions for corn and soybeans, but kept its estimates for wheat where they were in August. The department on Thursday released its new world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE). “Prices rallied after the report […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Big changes unlikely in next USDA report

Sep. 9, 2019 at 7:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the next supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, several firms have issued estimates for U.S. corn and soybean yields. USDA is scheduled to release its next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) Thursday at 11 a.m. CT. The report will help […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

USDA’s August WASDE report hits commodity markets hard

Aug. 12, 2019 at 1:39 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With markets largely rangebound since the end of June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited supply and demand report late Monday morning. The initial reaction on the markets was bearish, with corn prices being hit very hard, down 25 cents per bushel for the September […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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