Insights and Stories on Corn Futures

U.S. grains: Corn, soy retreat as farm belt heats up

Jun. 27, 2019 at 4:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures drifted lower on Thursday as investors squared positions ahead of government reports on acreage and stocks due on Friday and as improving U.S. Midwest weather boosted crop prospects. Wheat futures ended mixed as improved harvest weather in the U.S. Plains winter […]

CBOT weekly outlook: USDA’s acreage report could push up prices

Jun. 26, 2019 at 6:50 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soy, corn down on improved weather

Jun. 26, 2019 at 6:17 pm CDT

By Barbara Smith

U.S. grains: Corn up as crop ratings ease

Jun. 25, 2019 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Barbara Smith

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on global weather worries

Jun. 24, 2019 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Soy, corn ease as traders expect improving weather

Jun. 21, 2019 at 6:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures slumped on Friday on expectations that crops may benefit next week from a break in the rains that stalled plantings across the American Midwest this spring. Widespread storms caused unprecedented delays in corn plantings and prevented farmers from planting crops across […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Rains fuel crop worries, lift corn, soy, wheat

Jun. 20, 2019 at 5:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures jumped on Thursday as expectations for more rain in the U.S. Midwest heightened worries about bad weather reducing autumn harvests. Forecasts called for rain over the next five days, which would keep some fields too wet to plant and add stress […]

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Bullish U.S. Midwest weather story not over

Jun. 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade may have run into some profit-taking resistance, but underlying concerns over wet fields and lost acres should keep the general uptrend in place heading through the summer. “I don’t think this weather story is anywhere near over,” said […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn down second session after five-year high

Jun. 19, 2019 at 4:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell about two per cent on Wednesday, sagging for a second straight session as an absence of fresh bullish news prompted investors to book profits after multi-year highs set this week. Soybean and wheat futures followed the weak trend, with a few analysts […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn down on profit-taking as planting ‘virtually done’

Jun. 18, 2019 at 4:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures declined on Tuesday as government data showing a rain-delayed planting campaign was nearing an end encouraged a pause in a rally that took prices to a five-year high a day earlier. Wheat futures sank on profit-taking and competition for global export business. Soybeans […]

By Julie Ingwersen