Insights and Stories on Wheat

U.S. grains: Soybeans up one per cent as soyoil climbs

Dec. 3, 2020 at 3:08 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose about one per cent on Thursday, rallying on bargain buying after a two-week low set a day earlier and on uncertainty about South American crop prospects, traders said. Soybeans also drew support from strength in soybean oil futures, which advanced about two […]

Canada’s canola harvest smallest in five years

Dec. 3, 2020 at 11:58 am CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Soy futures sag on improving Brazil weather

Dec. 2, 2020 at 4:48 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat futures hit two-month low

Dec. 1, 2020 at 5:10 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

Organic price quotes: Late November

Dec. 1, 2020 at 4:28 pm CST

By OrganicBiz

Grain Farmers of Ontario to wind down wheat pool

Dec. 1, 2020 at 3:59 pm CST

The remnants of Ontario farmers’ former single wheat marketing desk are set to disappear at the end of the 2020 crop marketing year. Grain Farmers of Ontario, which inherited the pooling system from one of its heritage organizations, the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board, announced Tuesday it will wind down […]

By Dave Bedard

StatsCan report to provide clarity on 2020 crop production

Nov. 30, 2020 at 7:44 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Market participants and producers will be looking to Statistics Canada’s principal field crop report, due out Thursday, for clarity regarding 2020 crop yields. “We’re looking to see how severely the heat damaged the crop, and how yield estimates were tempered later in the growing season,” said Jerry Klassen, […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat slides on Russian export prospects

Nov. 30, 2020 at 7:21 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell more than three per cent on Monday on prospects that Russia, the world’s top supplier of the food grain, may raise its export quota, analysts said, along with long liquidation at the end of the month. Soybean and corn futures dipped as […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as South American crops struggle

Nov. 27, 2020 at 4:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures ended higher on Friday as continued dryness in South America threatened to stress the crop in Brazil and Argentina, while strong export demand strengthened corn and wheat. Chicago Board of Trade’s most-active soybean futures added 7-3/4 cents to $11.91-3/4 a bushel, ending the […]

By Christopher Walljasper

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets could go higher after U.S. Thanksgiving

Nov. 25, 2020 at 4:57 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, the Chicago Board of Trade was pulling back a little, generating double-digit losses in most wheat contracts, while corn and soybeans were down by smaller amounts. However, from Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. at Fort McHenry, Ill., […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm