Insights and Stories on Wheat

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USDA attache to Canada predicts larger wheat crop

Aug. 16, 2019 at 6:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A new report from the Ottawa-based attache to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has raised its estimate of total wheat production in Canada for 2019. The report Thursday from attache Phil Hayes increases FAS’s estimate of wheat production in Canada for 2019 to 32.65 […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat rise but post big weekly losses

Aug. 16, 2019 at 5:02 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Feed weekly outlook: No long-term shortage expected

Aug. 15, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn futures break losing streak

Aug. 15, 2019 at 7:39 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn, soybean futures fall

Aug. 14, 2019 at 3:21 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn futures extend losses after USDA harvest view

Aug. 13, 2019 at 3:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn futures sank for the second day in row on Tuesday, dropping 4.1 per cent to a three-month low as the U.S. Agriculture Department’s unexpected boost to its U.S. production forecast continued to weigh heavily on the market, traders said. Soybean futures […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn plunges most in three years on crop estimate surprises

Aug. 12, 2019 at 4:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures fell nearly six per cent on Monday, their biggest drop in more than three years, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast a bigger-than-expected harvest. USDA forecast the 2019-20 corn crop at 13.901 billion bushels, above the 13.875 billion bushels expected in July. […]

By Barbara Smith

USDA’s August WASDE report hits commodity markets hard

Aug. 12, 2019 at 1:39 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With markets largely rangebound since the end of June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited supply and demand report late Monday morning. The initial reaction on the markets was bearish, with corn prices being hit very hard, down 25 cents per bushel for the September […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soy firm, corn mixed ahead of USDA report

Aug. 9, 2019 at 6:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped to a 1-1/2-week high on Friday and posted their first weekly gain in a month, lifted by technical buying and short-covering amid concerns that dry U.S. Midwest weather would limit crop production. Corn and wheat were mixed as investors squared positions ahead […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Soy, corn close higher

Aug. 8, 2019 at 7:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and corn futures settled up on Thursday, as traders squared their positions ahead of a U.S. government report next week expected to clarify how many acres were planted of the two crops. Dealers said a rebound in energy prices provided some support, although there […]

By Barbara Smith