Insights and Stories on Wheat Futures

U.S. grains: Wheat up 1.6 per cent in bounce from contract lows

Mar. 9, 2015 at 4:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures rose 1.6 per cent on Monday, bouncing off the previous session’s contract lows on bargain-hunting and short-covering ahead of a monthly U.S. government crop report. Soybeans and corn also climbed in largely technical buying ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s supply/demand report […]

U.S. grains: Corn falls on stronger dollar, ample supplies

Mar. 6, 2015 at 3:28 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Wheat falls to five-month low on dollar, big supplies

Mar. 5, 2015 at 3:40 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Fund selling keeps U.S. wheat futures pointed down

Mar. 5, 2015 at 11:43 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop for third day

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:27 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall to one-week low on Brazil strike pause, harvest

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to a one-week low on Tuesday in a technical selloff sparked by a weakening truckers strike in Brazil and the advancing harvest of what’s expected to be Brazil’s biggest soy crop ever. Soybean futures trimmed their losses late in the session while corn […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy post big losses on weakening export demand

Mar. 2, 2015 at 4:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures dropped 2.5 per cent on Monday on poor export demand and lessened concerns about damage to the dormant U.S. crop, traders said. Poor export demand also weighed on soybeans. Traders added that easing worries about a truckers’ strike in Brazil slowing shipments of […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat hits week high on crop worries

Feb. 27, 2015 at 6:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rallied nearly three per cent on Friday after falling to three-week lows this week as another arctic blast across the U.S. winter wheat belt raised worries about the dormant crop, traders and analysts said. That spurred technical buying as Chicago wheat rose to […]

By Christine Stebbins

U.S. grains: Soy climbs on Brazilian truck strike

Feb. 26, 2015 at 3:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures rose on Thursday on uncertainty over Brazil’s trucker strike, which threatens to stall movement of the new harvest of the grain onto the world market, traders and analysts said. Chicago corn and wheat also ended higher, tracking the strength in soybeans. Chicago Board […]

By Christine Stebbins

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide on easing concerns about Brazil truck strike

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:39 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans retreated on Wednesday from a six-week high earlier this week, on prospects for an imminent end to the Brazilian truck drivers’ strike which had threatened exports just as the country’s massive soybean crop was entering world markets. CBOT wheat also fell […]

By Christine Stebbins