Insights and Stories on Soybeans

Oats, other organic crops lacking contracts

May. 1, 2023 at 9:35 am CDT

By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia staff With spring planting barley under way across Canada, a number of organic grains continued to linger without any current bids for old or new crop. Oats has been chief among them, although Grain Millers of Canada recently acquired a small amount for approximately C$7 […]

World production seen up with more corn, soybeans

Apr. 20, 2023 at 2:49 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Argentina soybeans expected to go from horrible to great

Apr. 17, 2023 at 3:14 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Organic price quotes: Late March

Mar. 31, 2023 at 2:44 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

All quiet on the organic front

Mar. 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

CBOT weekly outlook: More acres expected for U.S. corn, soybeans, wheat

Mar. 22, 2023 at 5:49 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With expectations of far fewer prevent-planting acres for 2023-24, Terry Reilly of Futures International has called for increases in planted area for corn, soybeans and wheat in the U.S. this spring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is scheduled to release its planting projections on March 31. Reilly […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

China to buy more homegrown soybeans for reserves

Mar. 16, 2023 at 1:30 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China will step up buying of domestic soybeans by state reserves to encourage farmers to keep planting the crop, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, as Beijing continues to push for greater self-sufficiency in oilseed. China started to increase soybean planting a year ago amid worries […]

By Reuters

ICE weekly outlook: No floor in sight for overdone canola

Mar. 15, 2023 at 8:38 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market was in freefall mode through the first half of March, hitting its weakest levels in over a year. While the losses may be looking overdone, the bottom remains to be seen. “This has been a brutal drop in canola,” said Bruce Burnett, director […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola drifts downward with soybeans

Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:47 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market drifted downward during the week ended Wednesday largely due to macroeconomic activity in the markets, according to one analyst. Jerry Klassen from Resilient Commodity Analysis in Winnipeg said canola prices have mostly followed the lead of the Chicago soy complex, while rains fell […]

By Adam Peleshaty

CBOT weekly outlook: It still comes down to South America

Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:35 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is set to issue its next supply and demand estimates on March 8, what’s going on in South America continues to dominate the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to Andrew Mages of Progressive Ag in Fargo, N.D. “Typically it’s not […]