Insights and Stories on Soybean Futures

U.S. grains: Rains fuel crop worries, lift corn, soy, wheat

Jun. 20, 2019 at 5:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures jumped on Thursday as expectations for more rain in the U.S. Midwest heightened worries about bad weather reducing autumn harvests. Forecasts called for rain over the next five days, which would keep some fields too wet to plant and add stress […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Bullish U.S. Midwest weather story not over

Jun. 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn down second session after five-year high

Jun. 19, 2019 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn down on profit-taking as planting ‘virtually done’

Jun. 18, 2019 at 4:02 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn sets five-year high, soybeans up on poor weather

Jun. 17, 2019 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn reaches five-year high on crop uncertainty, firm cash

Jun. 14, 2019 at 6:06 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures climbed to their highest level in five years on Friday as forecasts for more showers in the eastern Midwest next week clouded U.S. production prospects, analysts said. Soybeans also advanced on the weather worries and wheat closed higher after a choppy session. Chicago […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn nears four-year high

Jun. 13, 2019 at 7:33 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures neared a four-year high on Thursday, buoyed by worries about yield prospects for the delayed crop and firm cash markets, analysts said. Soybeans also advanced as weather worries threatened to curtail U.S. production of the oilseed, and wheat futures followed the firm trend. […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rally as rains threaten more planting problems

Jun. 12, 2019 at 3:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures jumped to their highest levels in more than a week on Wednesday as rains threatened to further delay corn and soy plantings and put crop yields at risk. The gains came a day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on […]

By Reuters Tom Polansek

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CBOT weekly outlook: What happens with corn, will happen to soybeans

Jun. 12, 2019 at 1:46 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Although there were no major changes to soybeans in June’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the commodity’s price shot up on the Chicago Board of Trade. USDA on Tuesday issued its monthly WASDE report, in which estimated U.S. corn production […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn hits one-week high as USDA cuts yield more than expected

Jun. 11, 2019 at 6:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures climbed to a one-week high on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a bigger-than-expected cut to its yield estimate due to unprecedented planting delays this spring. USDA, in a monthly report, slashed its corn yield projection by 10 bushels an acre […]

By Tom Polansek