Insights and Stories on Soybean

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans drop on favourable weather

Jul. 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures prices fell on Friday on expectations for beneficial rains in crop-growing areas and as President Donald Trump said the country’s relationship with trading partner China was severely damaged. A monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report pegged America’s harvests below analysts’ […]

U.S. grains: Wheat futures top two-month high on global harvest worries

Jul. 9, 2020 at 3:49 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat hits one-month high

Jul. 8, 2020 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn, soy slip on less-threatening weather

Jul. 7, 2020 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit four-month high on hot, dry weather

Jul. 6, 2020 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn pauses after fund buying spree, watches weather

Jul. 2, 2020 at 8:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures trimmed from a near 3-1/2 month high on Thursday, following strong gains after the U.S. government reported farmers had planted fewer than expect corn acres. The corn market remained on pace for the strongest gain in a year, as investors watched weather reports. […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Corn continues upward on USDA acreage data, weather worries

Jul. 1, 2020 at 3:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures extended a rally on Wednesday to their highest in more than three months after a steeper-than-expected reduction to the U.S. government’s 2020 corn acreage estimate, analysts said. Soybeans and wheat gained after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s acreage report on Tuesday also showed […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Corn, soy climb on smaller-than-expected acreage view

Jun. 30, 2020 at 8:31 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures surged nearly four per cent on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that American farmers planted 92 million acres of corn this spring, a figure that fell below a range of analyst expectations. Soybean futures rose after USDA put U.S. plantings […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat end higher ahead of USDA reports

Jun. 29, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures rose on Monday on short-covering and position-squaring ahead of key reports due on Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and word that China was in the market for the grain after futures fell to a seven-week low last week, analysts said. […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Canola area expected to be lower in Monday’s StatsCan report

Jun. 26, 2020 at 7:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Market participants generally expect canola acreage will be revised downward in a second acreage estimate due out Monday from Statistics Canada. “There’s a lot of uncertainty about canola acres,” Ken Ball of P.I. International in Winnipeg said, noting acreage was “definitely lost” in central and northern Alberta due […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm