Insights and Stories on Soybean Futures

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat close strong

Mar. 15, 2019 at 6:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose 1.7 per cent on Friday as traders unwound bearish bets they placed on the grain when the market spiraled to a 14-month low earlier this week. The most-active Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat contract hit its highest since March […]

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat rallies on short-covering

Mar. 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on profit-taking

Mar. 13, 2019 at 4:18 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Time running out for trade talks

Mar. 13, 2019 at 3:02 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as investors cover shorts

Mar. 12, 2019 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat futures plunge to contract lows

Mar. 11, 2019 at 5:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures sank 2.7 per cent to their lowest since January 2018 on Monday, pressured by plentiful stocks that were providing overseas buyers with multiple options for supplies when looking for export deals. The weakness in wheat weighed on corn, which notched its fourth straight […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn hits contract lows

Mar. 8, 2019 at 4:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to contract lows on Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast of U.S. corn ending stocks above a range of trade expectations, reflecting a drop in the government’s corn export forecast. U.S. soybean futures also declined and wheat recorded […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans inch up on China purchases

Mar. 7, 2019 at 4:00 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures inched upward on Thursday on news that Chinese state-owned firms bought at least 500,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans, while wheat futures dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year on pressure from a strengthening dollar, traders said. Chinese state-owned firms bought […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat sag as trade news awaited

Mar. 6, 2019 at 6:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell roughly one per cent on Wednesday and wheat slipped nearly three per cent on sluggish export demand for U.S. grains and a lack of news on U.S.-Chinese trade negotiations, traders said. “The single biggest potential factor right now that could […]

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

Mar. 6, 2019 at 2:45 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Fresh news out of U.S./China trade talks will move the soybean and corn markets in the near future, rather than USDA’s next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), according to an analyst following the Chicago Board of Trade. However, a lack of fresh news regarding those trade […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm