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U.S. grains: Soybeans sag after monthly USDA report

Mar. 10, 2015 at 5:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised analysts by leaving its forecast of domestic soy inventories unchanged in a monthly report. A strong dollar hung over the commodities sector, pressuring grains as well as crude oil and […]

U.S. grains: Wheat up 1.6 per cent in bounce from contract lows

Mar. 9, 2015 at 4:29 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn falls on stronger dollar, ample supplies

Mar. 6, 2015 at 3:28 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Wheat falls to five-month low on dollar, big supplies

Mar. 5, 2015 at 3:40 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

CBOT weekly: Soybeans, corn await next USDA reports

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:49 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop for third day

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:27 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for a third straight session on Wednesday as the end of a truckers’ strike in Brazil and easing concerns about a farmers’ protest in Argentina reduced fears of major South American export disruptions. Wheat fell under the combined pressure of a stronger […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall to one-week low on Brazil strike pause, harvest

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to a one-week low on Tuesday in a technical selloff sparked by a weakening truckers strike in Brazil and the advancing harvest of what’s expected to be Brazil’s biggest soy crop ever. Soybean futures trimmed their losses late in the session while corn […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy post big losses on weakening export demand

Mar. 2, 2015 at 4:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures dropped 2.5 per cent on Monday on poor export demand and lessened concerns about damage to the dormant U.S. crop, traders said. Poor export demand also weighed on soybeans. Traders added that easing worries about a truckers’ strike in Brazil slowing shipments of […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat hits week high on crop worries

Feb. 27, 2015 at 6:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rallied nearly three per cent on Friday after falling to three-week lows this week as another arctic blast across the U.S. winter wheat belt raised worries about the dormant crop, traders and analysts said. That spurred technical buying as Chicago wheat rose to […]

By Christine Stebbins

U.S. grains: Soy climbs on Brazilian truck strike

Feb. 26, 2015 at 3:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures rose on Thursday on uncertainty over Brazil’s trucker strike, which threatens to stall movement of the new harvest of the grain onto the world market, traders and analysts said. Chicago corn and wheat also ended higher, tracking the strength in soybeans. Chicago Board […]

By Christine Stebbins