Insights and Stories on China

World corn stocks hit record high on cut in China use: USDA

Nov. 10, 2015 at 4:10 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture unexpectedly revised its global coarse grain supply estimate on Tuesday, saying Chinese feed millers were using feeds other than corn at a higher rate than previously thought over the past three years. Along with an increase in USDA’s 2015 U.S. corn […]

China to let land lie fallow as grain stocks surge

Nov. 4, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

By Dominique Patton Niu Shuping

Global Markets: US GDP hits the brakes

Oct. 29, 2015 at 11:18 am CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

China to resume imports from U.S. pork plants

Oct. 24, 2015 at 2:58 pm CDT

By Reuters

Global markets: Apple in China, U.S. oil rig flatlining

Oct. 22, 2015 at 1:55 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybean prices expected to rise

Oct. 21, 2015 at 5:33 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– The ongoing U.S. harvest has pressured CBOT corn and soybeans in recent sessions, but support for the commodities will ramp up long-term, moving prices higher, according to a U.S. analyst. “I think you’re going to see demand improve and you’re going to see weather problems in South […]

By Jade Markus

U.S. grains: Soyoil tops two-month high on export sales

Oct. 21, 2015 at 5:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and oilseed futures advanced on Wednesday, with export sales driving soybean oil prices to their highest in more than two months. Exporters struck deals to sell 40,000 tonnes of U.S. soybean oil, including 20,000 to China and 20,000 to unknown destinations, the U.S. Department […]

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy move on weather, interest from China

Oct. 14, 2015 at 5:30 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– It’s a game of follow-the-leader in corn and soybean markets at the Chicago Board of Trade, according to one analyst — and short-term, neither looks especially bullish. “Beans have been the leader, corn is the follower, because we’re getting into the teeth of harvest,” said Scott Capinegro, […]

By Jade Markus

ICE weekly outlook: Canola climbs despite harvest pressure

Sep. 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts finished higher for the week ended Wednesday, posting gains of $9-$10 per tonne despite mounting harvest pressure and large world supplies of vegetable oil. The slumping Canadian dollar, which momentarily reached its lowest point in 11 years during the session, has been […]

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Prices slide on China worries, harvest progress

Sep. 28, 2015 at 4:13 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures slid Monday, pressured by a broad sell-off in commodity and equity markets and progress by U.S. farmers in harvesting crops. Soybeans tumbled more than one per cent, while Chicago wheat slipped off its earlier one-month high. Corn also declined. “This will be one […]

By Rod Nickel