Insights and Stories on Winter Wheat

Dec. 21, 2022 at 5:32 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures climbed on Wednesday, as forecasts for temperatures well below freezing across the U.S. Midwest threatened winter crops heading into the holiday weekend. Corn and soybeans inched higher, supported by firmer wheat and weather conditions in South America. The most-active wheat contract on the […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Nov. 30, 2022 at 3:24 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Chicago wheat rose for a second straight session on Wednesday, supported by end-of-the-month short-covering and investor hopes that China will loosen COVID-19 rules, although the grain declined sharply in November on competition from Black Sea supplies. Soybeans also ticked up, touching a two-month peak, as optimism […]

By Rod Nickel

Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:22 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain futures fell on Tuesday, amid growing concern over a possible U.S. rail strike and market speculation that U.S. grain buyers were purchasing European Union wheat, traders said. French wheat sales to China and the prospect of Polish or German wheat being […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Nov. 16, 2022 at 3:45 pm CST

MarketsFarm — As corn and soybean harvests in the United States wrap up for 2022-23, one analyst believes there will be little change in the yields determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dr. Michael Cordonnier of Soybean and Corn Advisor Inc. at Hinsdale, Ill. said USDA’s November call […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Oct. 25, 2022 at 8:49 am CDT

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine is keeping its forecast of the winter wheat sowing area for the 2023 harvest unchanged at 3.8 million hectares despite a delay caused by unfavourable weather, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy told Reuters on Tuesday. Ukraine sowed more than 6 million hectares of winter wheat […]

By Pavel Polityuk