Insights and Stories on Illinois

ADM, InnovaFeed to build world’s biggest insect protein plant in Illinois

Nov. 19, 2020 at 9:15 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain trader and processor Archer Daniels Midland and French biotech company InnovaFeed announced plans on Thursday to build the world’s largest insect protein plant at Decatur, Illinois. The announcement comes amid rising global feed grain prices and tightening supplies, and as more companies work toward […]

Storm and drought impacts on Iowa corn seen in crop tour

Aug. 19, 2020 at 6:31 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Corn futures tread water as Midwest’s farmers assess storm damage

Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:30 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Smithfield to close Illinois pork facility

Apr. 24, 2020 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Reuters

CBOT weekly outlook: Market stuck in range until acreage report

Jul. 17, 2019 at 8:45 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of […]

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Early winter weather puts U.S. safe-haven corn planting in doubt

Dec. 24, 2018 at 2:30 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Illinois farmer Brent Johnson had planned to bump up his corn acreage by 10 per cent in 2019 and plant fewer soybeans as a way to shelter himself from the lower soy prices caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war with China. But some early […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn firms as rainy Midwest outlook threatens harvest

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures firmed on Thursday on concerns that several days of rainy weather expected across the U.S. Midwest could disrupt harvesting of what is forecast to be a bumper U.S. crop. Soybeans also drew support from the wet forecast, but shed gains late in the […]

By Karl Plume

Brandt to buy first U.S. manufacturing plant

Dec. 4, 2017 at 4:37 am CST

A Canadian farm and industrial equipment manufacturer is preparing to set up its first U.S. base to make farm equipment for U.S. corn and soybean growers. The Regina-based Brandt Group, whose farm equipment lines include loaders and skid steers as well as augers, conveyors and vacuums for grain handling, announced […]

By Staff

Monsanto, BASF herbicides strain states with damage complaints

Nov. 1, 2017 at 2:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers have overwhelmed state governments with thousands of complaints about crop damage linked to new versions of herbicides, threatening future sales by manufacturers Monsanto and BASF. Monsanto is banking on herbicides using dicamba — and seeds engineered to resist it — to dominate soybean production […]