Insights and Stories on Soybean

U.S. grains: Corn continues climb, closes higher for fourth week

Apr. 14, 2023 at 7:09 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago corn futures settled higher on Friday, making the fourth straight week of gains, after a week of flash sales to China and demand for ethanol processing. Soybeans closed lower, ending a gains streak since late March, as a record Brazilian harvest tempered concern about […]

Vast tracts of drought-hit Argentine soy fields seen going unharvested

Apr. 13, 2023 at 7:08 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago grains close lower as weather improves

Apr. 13, 2023 at 6:28 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather in focus for Chicago grains, oilseeds

Apr. 12, 2023 at 6:14 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Chicago grains up after jumpy day of Black Sea concerns

Apr. 12, 2023 at 3:50 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison

USDA stands pat on U.S. soybean, corn ending stocks

Apr. 11, 2023 at 8:03 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Projected ending stocks for soybeans and corn in the United States for the current marketing year were left unchanged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its latest monthly supply/demand report (WASDE) — coming as a surprise to market participants who had generally anticipated downward revisions to the […]

By MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Chicago soy stronger on predictions for Argentina crop

Apr. 11, 2023 at 5:44 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures settled higher on Tuesday after the U.S. government slashed its estimate for production in Argentina to a 23-year low in a monthly report. Soybean production in Argentina will be smaller than previously thought at 27 million tonnes as a crop-wasting drought decimated […]

By Cassandra Garrison

Canola fund short position shrinking

Apr. 10, 2023 at 5:30 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Managed money fund traders continued to cover their large short positions in canola in early April, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of April 4, the net managed money short position in canola futures came in at […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat closes higher on dry weather, Russian threats

Apr. 10, 2023 at 5:14 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures were higher on Monday, as dry weather put Kansas City wheat at risk and Russia’s threat to bypass a UN-brokered grain deal underpinned prices, traders said. Corn also closed higher, though soybeans dipped as warm and dry weather improved the planting outlook […]

By Cassandra Garrison

U.S. grains: Crop futures slide on disappointing export sales, improved weather

Apr. 6, 2023 at 3:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain and soybean futures crumbled on Thursday on disappointing U.S. export sales and an improved weather outlook for U.S. spring plantings, analysts said. U.S. soybean export sales for 2022-23 were 155,300 tonnes for the week ended March 30, down 42 per cent […]

By Tom Polansek