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U.S. grains: Soy, corn slide following fresh round of China tariffs

Aug. 23, 2019 at 4:38 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures hit a three-month low and soybeans neared a three-week bottom after China said it would impose additional tariffs on U.S. products including grains and soy, escalating the trade war between the world’s top two economies. On the Chicago Board of Trade, soybean futures […]

Western Canada’s cash wheat bids mixed

Aug. 23, 2019 at 2:28 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn edges higher on cool weather

Aug. 22, 2019 at 7:28 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on yield uncertainty

Aug. 21, 2019 at 7:04 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. grain traders watch yields, demand

Aug. 21, 2019 at 4:54 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat slides on global supplies, drags corn lower

Aug. 20, 2019 at 7:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to a three-month low on Tuesday, pressured by ample global supplies and technical selling, analysts said. Corn futures also hit a three-month low, turning down as wheat sagged and storms brought crop-friendly rains to the Midwest. But soybean futures clung to modest […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans slide on beneficial weekend rains

Aug. 19, 2019 at 6:31 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell 1.6 per cent on Monday and soybean futures also declined after much-needed rains crossed dry areas of the Corn Belt over the weekend, bolstering crop production prospects, analysts said. Wheat followed the softer trend. Chicago Board of Trade December corn settled down […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Funds cover canola short positions

Aug. 16, 2019 at 5:23 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Fund traders covered some of their large net short position in canola during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in canola came in Tuesday at 66,293, a […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Cash wheat: Bids mixed, watching futures and currency

Aug. 16, 2019 at 5:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were narrowly mixed during the week ended Thursday, with losses in U.S. futures countered by support from a softer Canadian dollar. The Canadian dollar was down by roughly a third of a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart, while the futures were all […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat rise but post big weekly losses

Aug. 16, 2019 at 5:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, soybean and wheat futures rose on Friday on a technical rebound as traders evened up positions after the grains market posted sharp declines during the week. The heavy weekly losses — corn posted its biggest weekly drop in percentage terms since June 2016 — […]

By Mark Weinraub