Insights and Stories on Yields

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

Oct. 19, 2021 at 1:15 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest moving markets sideways

Sep. 22, 2021 at 12:02 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

ICE weekly outlook: Canola remains rangebound

Sep. 15, 2021 at 8:02 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest lows possibly already in for soy, corn

Sep. 15, 2021 at 7:40 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: New crop expected to stabilize feed prices

Aug. 19, 2021 at 1:33 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

ICE weekly outlook: Canola remains expensive

Aug. 18, 2021 at 4:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Concerns over the likelihood of a much smaller canola crop than previously anticipated, coupled with a very tight supply situation, continued to underpin values this week. That price rationing in turn has kept canola more expensive than other edible oils, according to trader Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Normal yields expected for dry beans in 2021-22

Feb. 10, 2021 at 7:20 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The number of acres seeded for dry beans in Canada in 2020-21 was at its highest level in more than a decade. But this upcoming crop year, acreage and yields are expected to return to normal. Dennis Lange, pulse specialist for Manitoba Agriculture at Altona, said he hadn’t […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feds predict three per cent increase in canola acres

Jan. 26, 2021 at 3:15 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers will seed more canola in the upcoming 2021-22 crop year, but solid demand will still cause ending stocks to tighten, according to the first new-crop supply/demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released Monday. The department forecast seeded canola area in the spring of 2021 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Barley market’s eye on exports, corn prices

Jan. 14, 2021 at 6:22 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Strong export demand for Canadian barley and rising corn prices in the U.S. are expected to continue to keep feed prices well supported in Western Canada. “Feed grains are being squeezed by lower imports of U.S. corn into Western Canada,” analyst Chuck Penner of Leftfield Commodity Research said […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soy futures touch new four-year top

Nov. 9, 2020 at 4:14 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures reached a new four-year high on Monday as the first successful data from a late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial fueled hopes of the economy recovering quickly from the pandemic-driven crisis. Broad optimism about Pfizer’s vaccine trials added support to a soybean market already buoyed […]

By Tom Polansek