Insights and Stories on Soybean Acres

StatsCan confirms drought impact on Ontario yield

Dec. 9, 2016 at 1:06 pm CST

Statistics Canada has confirmed what most farmers in Ontario knew this past summer: Hot and droughty conditions drove production of corn and soybeans almost 10 per cent lower than 2015 levels. StatsCan’s harvest report, released this week, also showed the large wheat crop in Ontario was a record, with a […]

U.S. farmers surprisingly boost corn plantings, soy acres at record

Jun. 30, 2016 at 1:55 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

Jun. 9, 2016 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Erin DeBooy

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans moving lower, corn up

Apr. 6, 2016 at 6:39 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Manitoba soybean acreage looks to inch upward

Apr. 5, 2016 at 6:42 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

China’s farmers switch to soy amid corn market reform

Apr. 4, 2016 at 5:50 pm CDT

Reuters — Wang Zhonghai, a 49-year-old farmer in China’s top corn producing province of Heilongjiang, plans to switch 80 per cent of his land to cultivate soybeans this year as the government ends a near-decade-old corn price support scheme. China announced last week it will stop its corn stockpiling program […]

By Naveen Thukral Niu Shuping

U.S. acreage plans not set in stone as corn price drops

Mar. 31, 2016 at 3:57 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. farmers could plant more soybean acres than suggested in the government’s acreage forecast issued Thursday, as recent gains in the futures market tempted them to alter their corn-heavy seeding plans, growers and analysts said. The U.S. Agriculture Department report showed farmers intend to plant 93.601 […]

By Mark Weinraub

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

Dec. 11, 2015 at 8:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast that U.S. farmers will raise corn plantings and cut back on soybean acreage in the 2016-17 marketing year. USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist estimated that farmers would seed 90.5 million acres of corn during the spring, 2.1 million more […]

By Reuters

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

Oct. 23, 2015 at 7:17 pm CDT

The association for Ontario corn and soybean growers is “evaluating several options” after its request for a stay of the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments was rejected. The Ontario Superior Court denied the request from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) for a stay and interpretation on the neonic […]

By Staff

USDA probes release of incorrect data that pressured crop prices

Sep. 16, 2015 at 4:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — A U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) unit is reviewing its procedures after posting incorrect crop data online on Wednesday, an error that temporarily pressured grain prices. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) inadvertently issued the wrong data on crop acreage around 5 a.m. CT and posted corrected data […]

By Tom Polansek

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