Insights and Stories on Wheat

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps to one-month top

Mar. 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged nearly four per cent on Monday and hit a one-month high, buoyed by strong buying by domestic flour millers as consumers stockpile bread, and signs of a pick-up in global export business, traders said. Soybeans rose on expectations of rising demand for […]

Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:34 am CDT

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

Fund traders cover canola shorts, liquidate corn longs

Mar. 22, 2020 at 2:34 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy rise after export deals

Mar. 20, 2020 at 7:17 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Recent declines stoke export interest

Mar. 19, 2020 at 7:51 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn skids to lowest level since September 2016

Mar. 18, 2020 at 5:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell 2.2 per cent to their lowest level in 3-1/2 years on Wednesday, with falling prices for crude oil cutting into demand from the ethanol market, traders said. A crumbling cash market for corn added to the pressure in the futures contracts as […]

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Bargain buying lifts some commodities

Mar. 18, 2020 at 11:57 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Despite an ever-changing economic environment due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, ag commodity prices may be sheltered from the worst bearish sentiments. “Global import businesses have taken off this week due to lower commodity prices,” said Terry Reilly of Futures International in Chicago. “If we do see an […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn hits 18-month low

Mar. 17, 2020 at 4:33 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures plummeted 3.3 per cent to an 18-month low on Tuesday as traders said current prices were too high to generate demand from overseas buyers with the ongoing harvests in Brazil and Argentina providing cheaper offerings on the export market. Corn prices fell to […]

By Mark Weinraub

wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia.

Grain price slump attracts bargain-hunting by importers

Mar. 17, 2020 at 2:46 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters — The collapse in grain prices caused by concern about the global impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus has generated some bargain-buying by importing countries, traders said on Tuesday. But they said the extent was still limited and there were no signs importers were making especially large purchases […]

By Reuters

Unseasonal rain, hail damage winter crops in India

Mar. 16, 2020 at 7:27 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — Unseasonal torrential rains and hailstorms have damaged the winter-planted crops of millions of Indian growers, inundating wheat, potato, chickpea and rapeseed farms in large parts of the fertile northern plains, farmers said. Most farmers were caught by surprise by the repeated rain and hail that […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj