Insights and Stories on Wheat

GFO quits Grain Growers of Canada

Feb. 7, 2020 at 1:32 pm CST

Grain Farmers of Ontario has dropped out of Grain Growers of Canada. The Ontario organization, which represents about 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean and wheat farmers in the province, cited a lack of representation in the national policy group. GFO publicly announced its withdrawal in a news release on Thursday, […]

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat slide on strong dollar, export uncertainty

Feb. 6, 2020 at 6:02 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise for third session

Feb. 5, 2020 at 4:00 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

Gaza farmers return to lands along volatile Israeli border

Feb. 5, 2020 at 2:22 pm CST

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn end higher

Feb. 4, 2020 at 7:07 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. winter wheat conditions mostly fair to good

Feb. 3, 2020 at 6:47 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The condition of the bulk of the U.S. winter wheat crop, taken from data provided by 17 reporting states, was at 29 per cent fair and 48.1 per cent good at the end of January. The rest of those states’ crops stood at 4.2 very poor, 12.1 poor […]

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. grains: Corn hits two-week low on virus worries

Feb. 3, 2020 at 4:13 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to a two-week low on Monday as traders worried that the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic could include an economic hit to China, traders said. But soybean and wheat futures ended modestly higher, rebounding from multimonth lows on light bargain buying, strength […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat fall as coronavirus spreads

Jan. 31, 2020 at 6:14 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell on Friday, their ninth straight day of losses, as concerns about the coronavirus cutting into Chinese demand beat back any attempts at a bargain-buying bounce, traders said. The losing streak marks the longest for the most-active soybean futures contract […]

By Mark Weinraub

Organic price quotes: Late January

Jan. 31, 2020 at 12:56 pm CST

Read more: Large supplies limiting organic market movement

By OrganicBiz

U.S. grains: Soybeans set eight-month low

Jan. 30, 2020 at 4:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for an eighth consecutive session on Thursday and hit an eight-month low as the rising toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China added to concerns about Chinese demand for American crops. Wheat also eased and set a three-week low on the Chicago […]

By Tom Polansek