Insights and Stories on Corn

Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

Jan. 13, 2015 at 4:51 pm CST

Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff said last year that the highway, known as BR-163, would be ready by mid-2015 as the […]

Monsanto profit falls, less sharply than Street expected

Jan. 7, 2015 at 3:25 pm CST

By Carey Gillam

China approves Viptera corn, two types of soybeans

Dec. 17, 2014 at 5:54 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Dry spell to create ideal conditions for Argentine grains

Dec. 1, 2014 at 5:40 pm CST

By Reuters

IGC raises forecast for 2014-15 global corn crop

Nov. 27, 2014 at 5:08 pm CST

By Reuters

Ontario’s curbs on neonics may protect bees but diminish crops

Nov. 26, 2014 at 5:31 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Ontario’s move to protect bees by reducing use of a pesticide seed treatment may diminish corn and soybean production, seed companies said on Wednesday. Beekeepers welcomed the move by Ontario, the first North American government to curb use of seed treated with neonicotinoids, which are used […]

By Rod Nickel

Manitoba corn quality better than expected

Nov. 25, 2014 at 7:23 pm CST

CNS Canada — Manitoba’s corn growers weren’t sure what they’d find when they combined their fields this fall due to unfavourable growing conditions, but overall quality was better than expected. “We were worried going in that it would be a lighter crop because of the frost in September,” said Morgan […]

By Terryn Shiells

ADM suing Syngenta over rejections of GMO corn

Nov. 22, 2014 at 11:45 am CST

Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland sued seed company Syngenta on Wednesday over sales of a genetically modified corn variety not approved for import by China, joining more than 100 farmers and exporters in pursuing damages from the Swiss company. The lawsuit alleges Syngenta commercialized the MIR162 corn variety, also known […]

By Karl Plume

Grain ‘trade’ at risk of low-balling U.S. soybean yields: Maguire

Nov. 6, 2014 at 3:57 pm CST

Chicago / Reuters – At 47.1 bushels an acre, last month’s soybean yield estimate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was a new all-time high. And the average trader estimate for the USDA’s November projection is higher still, at 47.608 bushels. Even so, the long-term relationship between corn and soybeans suggests […]

By gavin-maguire

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