Insights and Stories on Rabobank

Good demand expected for Canada’s two biggest crops

Jul. 22, 2024 at 12:54 pm CDT

Stephen Nicholson, global sector strategist of grains and oilseeds for Rabobank, said the U.S. hard red winter crop is big and getting larger as the weeks tick by. On the surface that sounds like it would be bad news for Canada's spring wheat growers, but he said big yields often correlate to low protein levels for U.S. HRWW.

More affordability, usage of fertilizers in 2024, analyst says

Nov. 1, 2023 at 12:56 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

More acres expected for soybeans, canola, Rabobank says

Oct. 26, 2023 at 4:19 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. beef cow herd falls to lowest level since 1962, USDA says

Jan. 31, 2023 at 4:59 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Rabobank to offer Canadian farm-level lending

Jan. 13, 2023 at 5:50 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Telus, Rabobank ag arms buy into farm data aggregator

Jul. 19, 2021 at 5:44 pm CDT

The agriculture arms of one of Canada’s major telecoms providers and a major Dutch bank and financial services firm are taking a stake in a tech firm in the business of gathering on-farm data into a single window. Telus Agriculture and Rabo AgriFinance, which is headquartered in St. Louis and […]

By Dave Bedard

Flush with cash, Chinese hog producer builds world’s largest pig farm

Dec. 7, 2020 at 4:02 pm CST

China | Reuters – Behind the walls of a hulking industrial compound in rural China, top pig producer Muyuan Foods is trying to raise more hogs on a single site than any company in the world – a risky investment with deadly African swine fever lingering. The new farm, which […]

By Dominique Patton

China’s pork imports seen doubling in 2019 on swine fever impact

Mar. 22, 2019 at 1:04 pm CDT

Wuzhen, China | Reuters — China’s 2019 pork imports are set to double from last year to two million tonnes, a Rabobank analyst said on Thursday, as African swine fever hits production of the meat in the world’s top hog market. China has reported 113 outbreaks of the contagious disease […]

By Dominique Patton Hallie Gu

Record crops to send grain stocks to all-time peak, IGC says

Nov. 24, 2016 at 5:00 pm CST

London | Reuters –– Global grain stocks are expected to surpass 500 million tonnes for the first time at the end of the 2016-17 season, the International Grains Council said on Thursday, raising its forecasts for both corn and wheat production. The intergovernmental body, in a monthly update, put total […]

By Nigel Hunt