Insights and Stories on Midwest

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

Apr. 11, 2019 at 8:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota […]

Klassen: Feeder market incorporates risk premium

Apr. 9, 2019 at 9:08 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

Apr. 8, 2019 at 7:54 pm CDT

By Jarrett Renshaw Stephanie Kelly

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce ahead of USDA data

Mar. 28, 2019 at 3:29 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets at mercy of weather

Mar. 27, 2019 at 4:01 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

ADM says U.S. floods to cut into Q1 operating profit

Mar. 25, 2019 at 7:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Flooding and severe winter weather in the U.S. Midwest will reduce Archer Daniels Midland’s first-quarter operating profit by US$50 million to $60 million, the U.S. grains trader said on Monday. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the farm belt across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on short-covering, planting worries

Mar. 25, 2019 at 6:09 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures gained on Monday, lifted by short-covering and technical buying, as well as concerns about North American production as weather in the Midwest threatened to delay planting. Corn prices also rose, extending gains into a fourth session, while soybean futures firmed. The May […]

By Stephanie Kelly

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

U.S. grains: Wheat ends higher on weather worries

Mar. 20, 2019 at 5:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose nearly two per cent on Wednesday on poor weather in the Midwest soft winter wheat belt and the northern Plains spring wheat region, traders said. Soybean and corn futures closed modestly higher. Chicago Board of Trade May soft red winter wheat settled […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on profit-taking

Mar. 13, 2019 at 4:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures eased 1.2 per cent on Wednesday, setting back on a mild round of profit taking after prices posted their biggest rally since last summer on Tuesday. Corn and soybeans ended higher after weakening overnight and early in the day session as traders moved […]

By Mark Weinraub

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