Insights and Stories on Soybean Futures

U.S. grains: Wheat sags on abundant global supplies

Sep. 3, 2019 at 7:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soft red winter wheat futures fell to three-month lows on Tuesday while U.S. hard wheat futures hit their lowest levels in a decade, pressured by ample world supplies and strong export competition, analysts said. Corn futures fell to life-of-contract lows on […]

U.S. grains: Spring wheat sinks to 10-year low on burdensome supplies

Aug. 30, 2019 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn, soy set one-week highs on weather concerns

Aug. 29, 2019 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders watching weather

Aug. 28, 2019 at 7:43 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise from multi-month lows

Aug. 28, 2019 at 7:05 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Bearish bets decline in canola

Aug. 26, 2019 at 1:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While speculators were increasing bearish bets for Chicago soybeans and corn during the week ended Tuesday, canola traders were taking back some of their large net short positions. According to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the net managed […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slide following fresh round of China tariffs

Aug. 23, 2019 at 4:38 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures hit a three-month low and soybeans neared a three-week bottom after China said it would impose additional tariffs on U.S. products including grains and soy, escalating the trade war between the world’s top two economies. On the Chicago Board of Trade, soybean futures […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn edges higher on cool weather

Aug. 22, 2019 at 7:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures inched higher on Thursday, stabilizing from three-month lows set a day earlier, supported by worries that cool weather could slow the maturity of the delayed U.S. crop, analysts said. Wheat rose on technical buying and better-than-expected weekly U.S. export sales. But soybean futures […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on yield uncertainty

Aug. 21, 2019 at 7:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures closed higher on Wednesday on technical buying and uncertainty about U.S. yield prospects, analysts said. Corn and wheat futures also firmed, steadying after the benchmark contracts for both grains dipped to three-month lows. Chicago Board of Trade November soybean futures settled up 4-3/4 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Farmer’s threat prompts USDA to pull staff from crop tour

Aug. 21, 2019 at 5:20 pm CDT

Henry County/Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat came over the phone from an angry farmer. Farmers have complained this month that a government crop […]

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek