Insights and Stories on Drought

CBOT weekly outlook: It still comes down to South America

Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:35 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is set to issue its next supply and demand estimates on March 8, what’s going on in South America continues to dominate the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to Andrew Mages of Progressive Ag in Fargo, N.D. “Typically it’s not […]

Crop, livestock prices offset reduced marketings in 2022

Feb. 28, 2023 at 8:19 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Revisions possible for Argentina corn, wheat carryouts

Feb. 13, 2023 at 7:31 pm CST

By MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybean futures climb as soymeal soars

Feb. 2, 2023 at 7:28 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. beef cow herd falls to lowest level since 1962, USDA says

Jan. 31, 2023 at 4:59 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Saskatchewan holds Crown grazing rents at last year’s levels

Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:00 am CST

Cattle producers leasing Crown land for grazing in Saskatchewan won’t see a rate hike this year and may be eligible for a significant rate cut. The provincial government announced Wednesday it has frozen the rates charged to producers who lease Crown grazing land in 2023 at their 2022 level. The […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slide on forecasts for much-needed Argentine rains

Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:05 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Thursday, retreating from seven-month highs set a day earlier as forecasts for beneficial rains in drought-hit Argentina sparked a round of selling, analysts said. Corn futures also declined on the outlook for Argentine weather along with wheat futures. Chicago Board of […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Storms to bring rain to parched Argentine fields next week, grains exchange says

Jan. 19, 2023 at 6:51 pm CST

Reuters — A storm front should bring moderate to abundant rainfall across most of Argentina’s key agricultural area over the next week, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said on Thursday, which could help farmers plant their fields after a historic drought. Lack of rainfall in Argentina, the world’s largest exporter […]

By Reuters

California rainstorms fade as death toll reaches 20

Jan. 17, 2023 at 2:44 am CST

Reuters — The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced U.S. President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in […]

By Daniel Trotta

California picks up debris from latest storm, braces for next

Jan. 13, 2023 at 3:53 am CST

Sacramento | Reuters — Rain-soaked Californians took advantage of a break in a weeks-long deluge to haul away dead trees, restore downed power lines and prepare new stacks of sandbags before another series of storms hits the state beginning Friday. In Monterey County along the state’s central coast, communities near […]

By Sharon Bernstein

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