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U.S. grains: Soybeans hit one-week top

Feb. 8, 2018 at 5:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures set a one-week high on Thursday as worries about dry weather curtailing Argentina’s harvest overshadowed bearish data in a monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture report (USDA), analysts said. Corn futures firmed on strong export demand while wheat retreated on profit-taking after multimonth highs. […]

USDA lowers U.S. corn stocks view as exports rise

Feb. 8, 2018 at 12:57 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat surges on worries about Plains dryness

Feb. 7, 2018 at 6:05 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

ICE weekly outlook: Rain in Argentina could provide direction

Feb. 7, 2018 at 5:42 pm CST

By Dave Sims

Klassen: Feeder market stabilizes on U.S. inventory data

Feb. 5, 2018 at 9:45 pm CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. grains: Soybeans dip on Argentina rain outlook, technical selling

Feb. 2, 2018 at 4:21 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for a third straight session on Friday on technical selling and as an improved South American crop weather forecast soothed some anxiety about drought-reduced production in Argentina. Wheat also declined, with soft red winter wheat futures pressured by forecasts for snow in […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle limit up on fund buying

Feb. 1, 2018 at 5:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday touched a three-month top, spurred by short-covering and fund buying, said traders. April closed up its three-cent-per-pound daily price limit (all figures US$). Investors bought that contract and simultaneously sold February. The limit will expand to 4.5 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on weak exports, bumper Brazil harvest

Feb. 1, 2018 at 5:18 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped for a second straight day on Thursday on technical selling and profit taking following government data showing lower-than-anticipated U.S. export sales last week. Forecasts for rain and cooler temperatures in Argentina by mid-February and an accelerating soy harvest in Brazil further weighed […]

By Karl Plume

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

CBOT weekly outlook: Futures get weather boost

Jan. 31, 2018 at 5:15 pm CST

CNS Canada — The troublesome weather that gave Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn, soybean and wheat contracts a boost over the past week should remain supportive, despite nearby technical setbacks, according to a trader. “I’m still slightly bullish on beans, corn and wheat given the unfavourable weather situation in […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm