Insights and Stories on COVID-19

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles to three-month low in broad sell-off

Nov. 28, 2022 at 4:28 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Chicago wheat fell on Monday to a three-month low, as commodity and equity markets dropped on concern about the impact of rare protests in China against its strict anti-COVID-19 policy. Cheap supplies from Russia and elsewhere in the Black Sea are adding competition for U.S. wheat, […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans, grains turn higher ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving

Nov. 23, 2022 at 3:33 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

Biggest U.S. rail union rejects tentative deal, raising threat of strike

Nov. 21, 2022 at 5:17 pm CST

By David Shepardson Lisa Baertlein

U.S. grains: Soy futures up on China COVID curbs, weakening U.S. dollar

Nov. 12, 2022 at 2:59 am CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

China to step up investment in rural infrastructure

Oct. 25, 2022 at 8:40 am CDT

By Dominique Patton

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

Aug. 24, 2022 at 6:34 pm CDT

Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, […]

By Amina Ismail Charlotte Bruneau

Farmers, exhibitors hail Ag in Motion’s in-person return

Jul. 21, 2022 at 12:57 pm CDT

Attendance numbers at the first live Ag in Motion in three years are an indication that demand for outdoor farm shows is as high as ever, show director Rob O’Connor says. O’Connor said he wasn’t sure what to expect after momentum building during the show’s first five years was quashed […]

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Glacier FarmMedia acquires Ag in Motion property

Jul. 20, 2022 at 4:40 pm CDT

The investors who helped secure the land that now hosts the annual Ag in Motion outdoor farm show have been given a gift that keeps on giving. At a presentation on Tuesday, the first day of the show’s 2022 in-person edition, Glacier FarmMedia — which owns the event along with […]

By Liam O’Connor

USDA attaché alters call on China’s ending stocks

Jul. 8, 2022 at 7:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the July world supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), due out Tuesday, the department’s attaché in Beijing put forth its forecast changes. The attaché lowered ending stocks for China’s new-crop soybeans and rapeseed, while it increased the carryover for new-crop corn […]

By MarketsFarm

AgriStability enrolment deadline extended for 2022

Apr. 28, 2022 at 7:51 pm CDT

The deadline for Canadian farmers to enroll in AgriStability has been extended for two months — making 2022 the fourth year in a row with a enrolment deadline bump for the farm income stabilization program. The enrolment deadline without penalty for the 2022 program year was previously scheduled for this […]

By Dave Bedard

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