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Cattle inventories continue to decline, StatsCan says

Feb. 25, 2020 at 11:56 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canada’s cattle herd in 2019 continued on its generally consistent path of declining numbers, according to new data Statistics Canada released Tuesday. Aside from a few slight increases in 2012, 2013 and 2018, Canadian cattle inventories have moved lower since 2005. At 11.2 million head, the reported number […]

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rally, pull corn higher

Feb. 18, 2020 at 8:06 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Canada rules out sending police in on rail protests

Feb. 14, 2020 at 7:35 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Canola supplies in commercial pipeline hit fresh high

Feb. 14, 2020 at 5:27 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: India aims to boost production

Feb. 11, 2020 at 7:33 pm CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat sags on adequate world supplies, fund selling

Feb. 11, 2020 at 6:38 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to a seven-week low on Tuesday as signs of adequate global supplies and softening world cash prices triggered a round of what appeared to be fund-driven long liquidation, analysts said. Corn futures also fell while soybeans ended flat to fractionally higher after […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Strong export demand, acreage ahead for barley

Feb. 7, 2020 at 9:03 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian malting barley acreage is expected to remain high in the coming year, mostly due to strong export demand. Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Center in Winnipeg, said tough harvest conditions were partially to blame for lowered malt barley output in 2019. “We […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn hits two-week low on virus worries

Feb. 3, 2020 at 4:13 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to a two-week low on Monday as traders worried that the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic could include an economic hit to China, traders said. But soybean and wheat futures ended modestly higher, rebounding from multimonth lows on light bargain buying, strength […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Poor Chinese demand a setback for grain exports

Jan. 31, 2020 at 6:57 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian grain exports from licensed facilities are running well behind the previous year’s pace, due primarily to a sharp reduction in movement to China, according to latest monthly data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Total exports at Dec. 31 of grain, oilseed and pulse crops for the 2019-20 […]

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. livestock: Hogs sink for third day as coronavirus spreads

Jan. 31, 2020 at 5:39 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures sank to contract lows on Friday, their third straight day of declines in the fifth in the last six sessions, on worries about the coronavirus wreaking havoc on demand from China, traders said. On a continuous basis, the front-month hog futures contract hit […]

By Mark Weinraub