Insights and Stories on Wheat

As rain delays 2019 Prairie harvest, organic prices remains flat

Sep. 27, 2019 at 9:48 am CDT

By Glen Hallick MarketsFarm/OrganicBiz staff Not only has rain has delayed a good part of this year’s harvest on the Prairies, but for the most part prices for organic grains and oilseeds have remained flat. “It’s terrible everywhere, from Mexico to Nunavut,” quipped Jason Charles of Pipeline Foods in Minneapolis, […]

U.S. grains: Soy futures end near unchanged

Sep. 26, 2019 at 5:48 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S., Japan sign limited trade deal

Sep. 25, 2019 at 5:05 pm CDT

By David Lawder Jeff Mason

U.S. grains: Soybeans slip on weather, Chinese buying concerns

Sep. 25, 2019 at 4:17 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. dollar, weather hurt prices

Sep. 25, 2019 at 1:13 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: MGEX spring wheat rallies to highest since mid-June

Sep. 24, 2019 at 4:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — MGEX spring wheat futures rallied for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday as farmers harvesting in the northern U.S. Plains found that wet conditions had lowered the quality of the crop there. “They are talking about protein levels really taking a hit with the […]

By Mark Weinraub

AAFC raises 2019-20 canola, wheat ending stocks

Sep. 24, 2019 at 2:15 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian ending stocks of canola and wheat will be larger than earlier thought, according to updated supply/demand tables Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released late Friday. AAFC raised its canola ending stocks estimate for 2019-20 to a record 4.5 million tonnes, up from the August estimate of 3.775 million […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Minneapolis, K.C. wheat futures rise

Sep. 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Monday, rebounding from a sharp drop on Friday, on fresh export deals with China and rising concerns that rains in the U.S. Midwest could lower crop quality just ahead of harvest, traders said. The adverse weather also supported corn futures while […]

By Mark Weinraub

Wet harvests hurt U.S., Canadian spring wheat quality

Sep. 20, 2019 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Excessively wet conditions in the northern U.S. Plains and Canadian Prairies have hurt the quality of the region’s spring and durum wheat crops, potentially tightening supplies of top grades of the grains, handlers and agronomists said. Rains and heavy dew have slowed the harvest and, worse, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans down on China trade pessimism

Sep. 20, 2019 at 6:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell more than one per cent on Friday to the lowest in a week on rising doubts about a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks and forecasts for favourable crop weather across the U.S. Midwest. Corn and wheat also declined, following soybeans, although both […]

By Karl Plume