Insights and Stories on Soybeans

ICE weekly outlook: Canola watching currency, soybeans

Feb. 17, 2016 at 4:49 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted small gains during a choppy trading week ended Wednesday. Values were under pressure from the start due to a sharp break below major chart support on Feb. 9. Expectations of a large soybean crop from South America along with the ever-strengthening […]

Brazil soy planting lags historical average despite rain

Oct. 30, 2015 at 4:00 pm CDT

By Caroline Stauffer

Pearce: Winter wheat’s challenges go beyond just the seeding

Oct. 22, 2015 at 1:49 am CDT

By Ralph Pearce

Mitsui buys half of non-GMO U.S. grain, soybean handler

Oct. 19, 2015 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Reuters

Manitoba soybeans near harvest, weather permitting

Sep. 11, 2015 at 1:24 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Some timetables loosen as Ont. neonic limits become law

Jun. 9, 2015 at 6:42 pm CDT

Ontario’s corn and soybean growers and seed dealers will have slightly more time to manage some of their new duties as the province’s limits on neonicotinoid pesticides become legally binding. Ontario’s environment ministry on Tuesday announced its new provincial regulations — with a handful of changes from the draft legislation […]

By Staff

Sask., Man. soybeans survive with minor complications

Jun. 4, 2015 at 7:43 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Soybean crops have persevered through the frosty spring for the most part, agricultural experts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan say. Though farmers are still in the process of assessing damage, most plants had not yet emerged from the ground in both provinces when temperatures fell below freezing at […]

By Jade Markus

Study finds Manitoba ready for soy crushing

May. 16, 2015 at 9:54 am CDT

The rise of soybeans as a cash crop in and around Manitoba, and the availability of hogs to dine on soy meal, could support Western Canada’s first-ever soybean crushing plant, a new study finds. The feasibility study, run by Winnipeg-based Mercantile Venture Consulting and backed by the federal and Manitoba […]

By Staff

Fire damages Bunge’s Hamilton crush plant

Apr. 30, 2015 at 7:13 pm CDT

Fire officials in Hamilton, Ont. estimate a fire in a soybean drying unit at Bunge’s oilseed crush plant has caused about $20,000 in damages. The city’s fire department on Thursday said multiple fire crews responded to a report of a fire at the Bunge plant at about 12:40 p.m. The […]

By Staff

Man. bean area likely to beat StatsCan forecast

Apr. 28, 2015 at 7:09 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Early indications from Statistics Canada call for a sharp reduction in edible bean plantings in Manitoba, but actual area likely won’t be down by that much on the year, a provincial specialist says. StatsCan’s planting intentions report on Thursday predicted Manitoba farmers intend to plant 75,000 acres […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin