Insights and Stories on Wheat

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans fall in risk-off trade

Dec. 6, 2021 at 4:44 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Monday, with concerns about the spread of Omicron coronavirus variant causing investors to take some risk out of the market, traders said. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released on Friday afternoon that showed large speculators cut their […]

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed, watching futures and currency

Dec. 3, 2021 at 9:32 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat slide continues in volatile week

Dec. 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

Organic price quotes: Late November

Dec. 3, 2021 at 2:39 pm CST

By OrganicBiz

Organic grain prices need to start coming down

Dec. 3, 2021 at 1:48 pm CST

By OrganicBiz

Canola declines, durum drops in new StatsCan estimates

Dec. 3, 2021 at 11:35 am CST

MarketsFarm — There were very few surprises in Statistics Canada’s latest principal field crop production estimates released Friday — the first in 2021-22 to use a survey of producers. Nevertheless, they quantified just how severe last summer’s drought was in Western Canada. Canola production for the 2021-22 marketing year was […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as global demand offsets virus worries

Dec. 2, 2021 at 7:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. and European wheat futures jumped on Thursday as a series of import tenders and fears of rain damage to Australia’s harvest overshadowed concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus variant. Soybean and corn futures also advanced at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Global […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Grain futures regain ground as COVID jitters ease

Dec. 1, 2021 at 6:10 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures turned higher Wednesday, recouping some of their steep losses from the previous session, as investor concerns that the Omicron coronavirus variant would derail the global economy began to ease. Corn and soybeans also regained ground on end-user buying, traders said, following hopes of […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Smaller crops likely in StatsCan survey-based report

Dec. 1, 2021 at 3:14 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Mindful of the summer drought conditions that seriously cut into crop production across the Prairies, average trade estimates call for downward revisions to Statistics Canada’s already-small forecasts for most crops when the it releases its first survey-based estimates of the marketing year on Friday. While prior reports, in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets ‘resilient’ in face of Omicron

Dec. 1, 2021 at 1:47 pm CST

MarketsFarm — While fears over the newly-identified Omicron COVID-19 variant caused a sharp downturn Friday in oil and equities, crop prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) were not as hard hit. “This new COVID-19 variant has got some traders spooked in the market here in thinking there might […]

By Adam Peleshaty