Insights and Stories on China

ICE weekly outlook: Trade among issues hurting market

Mar. 13, 2019 at 3:39 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE canola futures are in trouble for a number of reasons, according to Exceed Grain senior marketing analyst Wayne Palmer. “We’re in a lot of trouble unless Trump signs this deal with China,” he said. Reports have stated the U.S. and China will sign a trade agreement at […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Time running out for trade talks

Mar. 13, 2019 at 3:02 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as investors cover shorts

Mar. 12, 2019 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat futures plunge to contract lows

Mar. 11, 2019 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rally for second day

Mar. 11, 2019 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Trump budget proposes steep subsidy cuts to U.S. farmers

Mar. 11, 2019 at 4:23 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget on Monday proposed a 15 per cent cut for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, calling its subsidies to farmers “overly generous” at a time when they are going through the worst crisis in decades because of depressed commodity prices and […]

By Humeyra Pamuk

U.S. grains: Soybeans inch up on China purchases

Mar. 7, 2019 at 4:00 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures inched upward on Thursday on news that Chinese state-owned firms bought at least 500,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans, while wheat futures dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year on pressure from a strengthening dollar, traders said. Chinese state-owned firms bought […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Canada working to end China’s canola block, Freeland says

Mar. 7, 2019 at 8:41 am CST

Montreal — The Canadian government is working hard to reopen Richardson International’s Canadian canola markets in China, says Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs. “We’re working closely with Canadian farmers and Canadian industry,” Freeland said in a brief interview after speaking at the Canadian Crops Convention (CCC) here Wednesday. […]

By Allan Dawson

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat sag as trade news awaited

Mar. 6, 2019 at 6:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell roughly one per cent on Wednesday and wheat slipped nearly three per cent on sluggish export demand for U.S. grains and a lack of news on U.S.-Chinese trade negotiations, traders said. “The single biggest potential factor right now that could […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs dip from two-week high, await trade news

Mar. 6, 2019 at 5:38 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures retreated on Wednesday after four straight sessions of gains in a technical and profit-taking setback from two-week highs as investors awaited new developments in U.S.-China trade negotiations. Cattle futures also fell broadly, although worries about a late-winter snowstorm forecast for the beef […]

By Karl Plume