Insights and Stories on Weather

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat limit up on India’s export ban

May. 16, 2022 at 7:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures hit their daily 70-cent trading limit cap on Monday after India banned exports of the grain, an abrupt policy change that fanned concerns about global supplies strained by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The wheat rally sent spillover strength to corn futures, as global […]

India bans wheat exports as heat wave hurts crop, domestic prices soar

May. 14, 2022 at 10:51 pm CDT

By Mayank Bhardwaj Nigam Prusty rajendra-jadhav

Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear across U.S. upper Midwest

May. 13, 2022 at 7:52 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper P.J. Huffstutter

ICE weekly outlook: Conditions a challenge for Prairie canola

May. 11, 2022 at 8:19 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Tightening supplies likely to underpin chickpea market

May. 11, 2022 at 1:07 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Late Prairie seeding may sway acres out of peas

May. 10, 2022 at 7:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Excessive moisture in the eastern Canadian Prairies this spring may cut into pea acres in the region, as producers like to get the crop in the ground early. Canadian farmers intended to plant 3.55 million acres of peas for the 2022-23 crop year, according to a report from […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

World could see 1.5 C of warming in next five years, WMO reports

May. 9, 2022 at 6:26 pm CDT

London | Reuters — The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday. That does not mean the world would be crossing the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 C (2.7 […]

By Gloria Dickie

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans ease on expected planting progress

May. 9, 2022 at 4:31 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures fell on Monday to five-week lows as warmer U.S. weather expedited planting progress, deflating fears of added soybean acres and further cuts to corn plantings, traders said. Wheat remained underpinned by dry conditions in the U.S. and French growing belts, reinforcing global supply […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn slide on Midwest weather forecasts

May. 6, 2022 at 5:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn and soybean futures slid on Friday as rising interest rates and currency pressures weighed on U.S. exports and forecasts of warm, dry weather opened a window for Midwestern farmers to get their crop planted. Recent rainfall in South America could boost Brazil’s south-central corn […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. spring wheat seeding near standstill

May. 4, 2022 at 7:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A succession of weather events has pretty much brought spring planting in North Dakota and Minnesota to a standstill, according to analyst Tom Lilja of Progressive Ag at Fargo, N.D. The weekly crop progress report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated nationwide planting of spring wheat […]