Insights and Stories on U.S. Plains

Weather outlook not great for Prairie crops

Jul. 13, 2023 at 7:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Just when crops across the Canadian Prairies need rain, the outlook to the end of July according to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. pointed to conditions getting hotter and drier. “It does not look really good at the moment. We are going to see below normal rainfall […]

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat closes down as global supplies look strong

Apr. 26, 2023 at 4:50 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison

U.S. livestock: December live cattle down off 7-1/2-year high

Dec. 14, 2022 at 4:25 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Sizzling heat stresses livestock, crops in southern U.S. Plains

Jul. 19, 2022 at 8:25 pm CDT

By Ashitha Shivaprasad Julie Ingwersen

Prairie cash wheat: Weather, loonie raise wheat bids

Apr. 29, 2022 at 8:32 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Study shows how U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by climate

Oct. 5, 2020 at 5:09 pm CDT

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Climate change could render swaths of agricultural land largely useless for farming in the U.S. South, and force Midwestern farmers to move corn and soybeans elsewhere as crop yields decline, researchers said on Monday. The profits of growing six key crops are set to […]

By Sonia Elks

Southern Plains drought slows U.S. cattle herd growth

Jan. 31, 2018 at 7:00 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Encroaching drought in the U.S. southern Plains contributed to the smallest rise in the nation’s cattle population in three years, analysts said after the government’s semi-annual cattle inventory report on Wednesday. Insufficient moisture in parts of Texas and Oklahoma, along with areas of persistent dryness in […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Winter wheat jumps as crop conditions drop

Jan. 30, 2018 at 4:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. winter wheat futures surged to their highest in at least four months on Tuesday, led by a more than three per cent rally in hard red winter wheat, after the government slashed condition ratings for the drought-hit U.S. Plains crop. Soybeans and corn also advanced […]

By Karl Plume

New Year’s Day cold snap to hit U.S. winter wheat, rivers

Dec. 29, 2017 at 5:13 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — A New Year’s Day cold snap in the southern U.S. Plains poses a threat to winter wheat, particularly in Kansas, the country’s biggest producer of the grain, agricultural meteorologists said. Farmers in Kansas grow hard red winter (HRW) wheat, the largest U.S. wheat class that typically […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink to three-month lows on Argentine rains

Dec. 18, 2017 at 6:03 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures slumped to three-month lows on Monday as rain in Argentina eased concerns that farmers would scale back planting in the country, the third-largest soybean exporter and top soy product supplier. Corn futures also declined on the rainy Argentine weather and pressure from abundant […]