Insights and Stories on Markets

Oct. 26, 2023 at 6:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose from a two-week low on Thursday on jitters about supply risks from the Ukraine war. Ukraine, a major grain exporter, has been using a Black Sea shipping channel to try to revive its seaborne shipments without Russian approval after […]

By Brendan O'Brien, Tom Polansek

Oct. 26, 2023 at 4:19 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Farmers in the U.S. will seed more soybeans in 2024-25, with Canadian canola plantings also expected to rise to a lesser extent, according to a grains and oilseeds analyst with RaboResearch Food and AgriBusiness, a division of the Dutch multinational bank Rabobank at the firm’s Fall Harvest Outlook […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Oct. 25, 2023 at 8:26 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange kicked off the week of Oct. 23-27 with sharp losses, as the most heavily traded January contract busted through its support level of $700 per tonne. Among the reasons for canola’s steep fall, as David Derwin pointed out, were the better than […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Oct. 25, 2023 at 8:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade may be hard pressed to move much higher in the short-term, as advancing harvest operations across the U.S. leave the market flush with supplies. However, solid underlying demand should remain supportive on the other side, according to an […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oct. 25, 2023 at 7:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures ended lower on Wednesday as favourable rains reached crop belts in South America and the U.S., analysts said. Traders are watching global weather after drought has hurt crop production in Argentina and the U.S. Plains and slowed soybean plantings in Brazil. […]

By Tom Polansek