Insights and Stories on Weather

U.S. grains: Corn hits contract lows on sluggish exports, mild weather

Sep. 6, 2019 at 5:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to life-of-contract lows on Friday, pressured by disappointing weekly U.S. export data and forecasts for benign weather in the heart of the Midwest crop belt, analysts said. Soybeans turned down, retreating from early advances, and wheat followed the lower trend. Chicago Board […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soy set one-week highs on weather concerns

Aug. 29, 2019 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders watching weather

Aug. 28, 2019 at 7:43 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Crop reports stoke hay shortage concerns

Aug. 2, 2019 at 4:20 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Manitoba crops progressing quickly in hot and humid weather

Jul. 24, 2019 at 9:45 am CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Indonesia plans cloud seeding effort to avoid crop failure

Jul. 22, 2019 at 12:07 pm CDT

Jakarta | Reuters – Indonesia is preparing to carry out cloud seeding in an effort to trigger rainfall to prevent harvest failure and forest fire, the disaster mitigation agency’s spokesman said on Monday. The agency’s data shows that on July 22 about 20,269 hectares of agricultural land were at risk […]

By Bernadette Christina

Major grain traders face one-two punch from U.S. floods, trade war

Jul. 10, 2019 at 9:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Severe U.S. weather likely dented earnings for large grain companies including Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge for a second straight quarter, adding to headwinds from a still-unresolved U.S.-China trade war, analysts and economists said. ADM and Bunge, as well as peers Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, known […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Corn, soy higher after choppy day amid hot forecasts

Jul. 8, 2019 at 7:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn and soybean futures settled higher on Monday after a seesaw trading session. Analysts blamed the choppy day on forecasts for hot and dry weather in the U.S. Midwest in the coming days. But forecasts showing heat building further in the next two weeks, with […]

By Barbara Smith

U.S. grains: Corn, soy ease on warmer weather

Jul. 1, 2019 at 7:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean, corn and wheat futures all settled down on Monday after early strength, as outlooks for improved U.S. weather boosted crop production prospects, analysts said. The August soybean contract on the Chicago Board of Trade settled down 14-3/4 cents at $8.89-3/4 a bushel and new-crop […]

By Barbara Smith

U.S. grains: Improving weather view weighs on wheat

Apr. 2, 2019 at 7:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — MGEX spring wheat futures plunged two per cent on Tuesday to their lowest levels since July 2018 on easing concerns about the weather in key U.S. growing areas and weakening cash prices, traders said. K.C. hard red winter wheat futures also were weak, with a better-than-expected […]

By Mark Weinraub