Insights and Stories on Prospective Plantings

ICE weekly outlook: USDA reports could spur record canola acres

Apr. 1, 2021 at 4:53 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — After May and July canola contracts took hefty hits over the past the week, they skyrocketed to close out the calendar month following a pair of reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department on Wednesday issued its first survey-based prospective planting report for 2021, which […]

CBOT weekly outlook: USDA acreage numbers provide bullish spark for corn, soy

Mar. 31, 2021 at 9:54 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: U.S. bean acres to increase, other pulses down

Mar. 31, 2020 at 5:45 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. projects wheat acres at record lows, increases for soy, corn

Mar. 31, 2020 at 5:38 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. corn, soy stocks top forecasts

Mar. 29, 2019 at 6:08 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat edges lower on profit-taking

Mar. 26, 2019 at 3:34 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures inched lower on Tuesday as investors took profits after prices hit a one-month high on U.S. export optimism and adverse weather in the United States that threatened to delay sowing. Soybean and corn futures fell on technical selling. Chicago Board of Trade […]

By Stephanie Kelly

CBOT weekly outlook: Shocker USDA reports leave questions for traders

Mar. 29, 2018 at 4:16 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Two much anticipated reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent markets soaring and left traders speechless in the last trading day before the Easter holiday. USDA released its quarterly grain stocks and prospective plantings reports Thursday at 11 a.m. CT. Traders had been expecting corn […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn market attention shifts north

Mar. 21, 2018 at 8:59 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade moved lower over the past week, but stabilized at those lows as attention shifts from weather concerns in Argentina to planting intentions in North America. Rains in Argentina over the past weekend helped ease dryness concerns there […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soy, corn sink to new lows on plentiful supplies

Mar. 23, 2017 at 3:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to a five-month low on Thursday and corn dropped to a 2-1/2 month low, pressured by plentiful global supplies amid bumper South American crops and expectations for large plantings in the U.S. The actively traded May-delivery contracts for both commodities hit their […]

By Karl Plume

ICE weekly outlook: Canola looks for support from new crop

Mar. 22, 2017 at 7:06 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts finished lower during the week ended Wednesday but attention in the market is turning to the new crop — and to North American acreage expectations. During the week, the dominant May canola contract fell $9.20, from $510.80 per tonne to $501.60. Large […]

By Dave Sims

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