Insights and Stories on Spring Wheat

Sep. 25, 2019 at 6:04 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Weather-related quality issues with North American spring wheat crops saw Minneapolis spring wheat futures rally sharply over the past three weeks, with more room to the upside as concerns mount over the state of the crop. The December contract hit a multi-year low of $4.865 per bushel at […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 25, 2019 at 4:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures fell on Wednesday as investors worried U.S.-China trade relations could escalate and as thoughts of frost impacting U.S. Midwest yields began to ease, traders said. Soybean futures faced pressure after President Donald Trump criticized Chinese policy in his address at the United Nations […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Sep. 24, 2019 at 4:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — MGEX spring wheat futures rallied for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday as farmers harvesting in the northern U.S. Plains found that wet conditions had lowered the quality of the crop there. “They are talking about protein levels really taking a hit with the […]

By Mark Weinraub

Sep. 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Monday, rebounding from a sharp drop on Friday, on fresh export deals with China and rising concerns that rains in the U.S. Midwest could lower crop quality just ahead of harvest, traders said. The adverse weather also supported corn futures while […]

By Mark Weinraub

Sep. 20, 2019 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Excessively wet conditions in the northern U.S. Plains and Canadian Prairies have hurt the quality of the region’s spring and durum wheat crops, potentially tightening supplies of top grades of the grains, handlers and agronomists said. Rains and heavy dew have slowed the harvest and, worse, […]

By Julie Ingwersen