Insights and Stories on USDA

ICE weekly outlook: Canola seeks support amid bearish signals

Mar. 28, 2018 at 6:59 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts appear to be tilting to the downside as they enter the Easter break, and will likely need support from a key U.S. government report if they want to stay in their current range. At 11 a.m. CT, Thursday, the U.S. Department of […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs mostly higher on bargain-buying

Mar. 28, 2018 at 5:42 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat hits two-month low

Mar. 28, 2018 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat down on better weather, positioning ahead of USDA

Mar. 27, 2018 at 6:29 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle touch six-month low on big supply

Mar. 26, 2018 at 6:25 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. cattle placements hit 16-year high for February

Mar. 23, 2018 at 5:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Ranchers drove 7.3 per cent more cattle into U.S. feedlots in February than a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on Friday, the most for the month in 16 years. Persistent drought in the U.S. Plains withered winter wheat grazing pastures, which forced beef […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Trade war risk slams CME hogs

Mar. 22, 2018 at 6:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs hit a four-month low on Thursday as U.S. stocks plummeted amid fears of a potential trade war between the U.S. and China, said traders. On Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum that could impose tariffs on up to […]

By Reuters

ICE weekly outlook: Canola futures linked to NAFTA

Mar. 21, 2018 at 9:12 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts zigged and zagged around the $520 per tonne mark during the week ended Wednesday — but one analyst says the market could really take a turn if and when the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement is clarified. “The Canadian […]

By Dave Sims

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn market attention shifts north

Mar. 21, 2018 at 8:59 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade moved lower over the past week, but stabilized at those lows as attention shifts from weather concerns in Argentina to planting intentions in North America. Rains in Argentina over the past weekend helped ease dryness concerns there […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wetter forecasts pressure K.C. wheat

Mar. 21, 2018 at 6:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hard red winter wheat futures fell to near two-month lows on Wednesday on forecasts of another round of beneficial showers next week in the southern Plains that could boost crop prospects, analysts said. Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat rallied late in the […]

By Julie Ingwersen