Insights and Stories on Interest Rates

CBOT weekly outlook: Potential for conflict, interest rate hikes affects prices

Jan. 26, 2022 at 7:41 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The ongoing standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine, along with speculation regarding key interest rates from the U.S. Federal Reserve, were two major factors on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) during the week ended Wednesday. The potential for a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine had […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat up after sell-off

Jun. 18, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn, soy plunge on weather, broad commodities sell-off

Jun. 17, 2021 at 6:32 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit down for second consecutive day

Jun. 17, 2021 at 6:24 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Farmland appreciation continues through pandemic year

Mar. 15, 2021 at 2:48 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Machinery costs driving up fixed farming expenses

Feb. 5, 2020 at 9:41 am CST

MarketsFarm — Fixed costs on farms continue to rise year-over-year, a statistic largely attributed to increasing land values and interest rates. At the beginning of 2019, Farm Credit Canada (FCC) reported farmland values across Canada increased by an average of 6.6 per cent during the previous year. But that’s not […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

Apr. 29, 2019 at 8:39 pm CDT

While lower-valued farmland more often showed a higher rate of increase, and price hikes varied from region to region, Canada’s farmland values on average have booked their slowest year-over-year rate of increase in almost a decade. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), in […]

By GFM Staff

FCC offers up new Starter Loans

Mar. 3, 2019 at 4:55 pm CST

“Preferential” loan rates are available to young farmers or agribusinesspeople planning start-ups through a new Farm Credit Canada lending program. Lawrence MacAulay, addressing the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s annual meeting Wednesday in Ottawa when he was still federal minister of agriculture, unveiled the federal ag lending agency’s new Starter Loan […]

By GFM Staff

Ag seen gaining on slightly weaker loonie in 2019

Jan. 11, 2019 at 7:38 pm CST

CNS Canada — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) predicts the Canadian dollar will spend the year around the 75-U.S. cent mark — slightly softer than last year’s average of 76. “We’re going to see volatility throughout the year obviously but when we look at that season, or the full year average, […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Trade certainty doesn’t translate to higher loonie

Oct. 12, 2018 at 5:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Even with more certainty around trade with the U.S., Canadians shouldn’t expect to see the dollar flying in value. “It’s hard for me to see the Canadian dollar gain value against the U.S. dollar in the short term, unless the Bank of Canada totally revises its stance […]