Insights and Stories on Exports

File photo of a docked grain vessel at a Black Sea port in Turkey.

U.N., Moscow discuss Russian grain, fertilizer exports

Sep. 7, 2022 at 6:46 pm CDT

United Nations | Reuters — Senior U.N. and Russian officials met in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss Russian complaints that Western sanctions were impeding its grain and fertilizer exports despite a U.N.-brokered deal to boost Russian and Ukrainian shipments of the commodities. The United Nations, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia agreed […]

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies on new concerns about Ukraine exports

Sep. 7, 2022 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up as corn prices sag

Sep. 1, 2022 at 7:43 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Canada, China agree to suspend WTO canola dispute

Sep. 1, 2022 at 12:38 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. says no weekly agriculture export sales data until Sept. 15

Sep. 1, 2022 at 5:00 am CDT

By Reuters

Manitoba’s sunflower crop smaller, better

Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — If Canada’s 2022 sunflower seed harvest is to be the lowest in five years, you wouldn’t know it talking to producers of the crop. In its July satellite image-based principal field crops estimates released Monday, Statistics Canada projected sunflower seed production for the 2022-23 marketing year at 61,996 […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Corn down on recession fears, profit-taking

Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:13 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, wheat and soybean futures fell on Tuesday, joining broad declines in commodities and equity markets as traders fretted about the health of the global economy. Profit-taking also weighed on corn futures, a day after the benchmark December contract notched a two-month high linked to […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat, corn fall as traders book profits

Aug. 25, 2022 at 6:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans, wheat and corn futures fell on Thursday on a profit-taking setback after rallying earlier in the week, traders said. “We are just running into a bit of technical resistance across the board,” said Dan O’Bryan, a risk management specialist and broker […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Soybean and wheat futures rise 2.2 per cent

Aug. 22, 2022 at 4:38 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures rose 2.2 per cent on Monday, supported by hopes for a pick-up in the pace of exports as farmers in top global consumer China struggle with hot and dry weather that is expected to reduce the size of the crop […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hog futures firm after hitting six-week low

Aug. 22, 2022 at 4:31 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures edged higher on Monday, with the market recovering after hitting its lowest in nearly six weeks on Friday, traders said. But gains were kept in check by poor exports and ample supplies of pork. Cattle futures were weaker as the market […]

By Reuters