Insights and Stories on Crop Tour

ICE weekly outlook: Time gap too large in StatCan report

Aug. 24, 2022 at 5:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There has been about a one-month gap in between Statistics Canada having gathered its data for next week’s principal crops report and actually releasing the report. That’s something trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg finds irksome. “They’re using computer models of some kind. You would think […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop tour raises concerns for corn, soy

Aug. 24, 2022 at 3:26 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheat up off six-month low on technical buying

Aug. 19, 2022 at 5:14 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Wheat extends fall, soybeans firm

May. 20, 2022 at 7:17 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soybeans jump on export demand

May. 19, 2022 at 6:27 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slide on macroeconomic fears, biofuel worries

Aug. 20, 2021 at 6:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures fell to their lowest in nearly two months on Friday and corn set a near one-month low on macroeconomic concerns along with beneficial rains in the western Midwest and Plains, analysts said. Soyoil futures fell more than five per cent on reports that […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on technicals, U.S. weather

Aug. 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell Wednesday on technical selling and forecasts for welcome rains in northwestern portions of the U.S. Midwest, but wheat and corn futures edged higher. Chicago Board of Trade November soybeans settled down 8-1/4 cents at $13.53-1/4 per bushel (all figures US$). CBOT December […]

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: Focus shifts away from USDA supply, demand estimates

Aug. 18, 2021 at 1:40 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Nearly a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Aug. 12 release of its monthly supply and demand estimates, they still lingered in the minds of traders at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). “Corn at $5.65 (per bushel), that’s where it’s trading right now, that is […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles on profit-taking off eight-year high

Aug. 17, 2021 at 6:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell more than three per cent on Tuesday in a profit-taking setback after the most-active contract reached an 8-1/2-year high last week, traders said. Corn and soybean futures followed wheat lower, with soybeans retreating from early advances despite fresh export sales of U.S. […]

By Julie Ingwersen Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn futures rise; soybeans, wheat weak

May. 20, 2021 at 4:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures rose on Thursday, with strong export demand highlighting concerns about dwindling crop supplies due to harvest shortfalls in Brazil, traders said. Soybeans and wheat weakened after firming early in the session. Private exporters reported the sale of 1.224 million tonnes of corn to […]

By Mark Weinraub

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