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Crops, Markets

Fund short position grows in canola

Funds shift to net short in CBOT soybeans

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MarketsFarm — The managed money net short position in ICE canola futures continued to grow in early October as speculators liquidated long positions and put on new shorts, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of Oct. 10, the net managed-money short position in canola
CBOT December 2023 soft red winter wheat with 20-day moving average, MGEX December 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat down off two-week high on global demand

U.S. says soybean harvest is 62 per cent complete

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures ended lower on Monday after rising earlier to their highest level in more than two weeks on hopes for global demand. Corn futures also eased as traders monitored the U.S. harvest, while gains in soyoil futures helped lift the soybean market, analysts said. After trading
CME December 2023 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME hog, cattle futures decline

Pigs seen bulking up on new-crop corn

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock markets weakened on Monday, with lean hog futures nearing their lowest price in more than four months. Concerns about lacklustre demand for U.S. pork continued to hang over the market, analysts said. Seasonally, hog futures also tend to decline around this time of year as pigs fatten
A seaport grain terminal damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes in Odesa region, Ukraine on July 19, 2023. (Photo: Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry via Facebook/Handout via Reuters)
Crops

Russia destroyed 300,000 tonnes of grain since July in attacks, Kyiv says

Port damage cuts export potential 40 per cent, deputy PM says

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Kyiv | Reuters — Russia has destroyed almost 300,000 metric tonnes of grain since July in attacks on Ukraine’s port facilities and on ships, the Ukrainian government said on Friday, underscoring the war’s threat to global food security. In summer, Moscow quit a U.N.-brokered deal that had allowed exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black
CBOT November 2023 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slip on profit taking, macro pressure

Exports lift wheat futures

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures retreated on Friday on profit-taking after hitting two-week highs in the previous session and as souring consumer sentiment and inflation worries hung over the market. Corn futures followed soybeans lower, but wheat rallied after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported stronger-than-expected weekly export sales and confirmed a
Producers called to speak on Bunge-Viterra merger
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Producers called to speak on Bunge-Viterra merger

Canada’s Competition Bureau is reviewing the deal, but some farm groups call for further government action

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Producers who have something to say about the merger of Bunge and Viterra have been given a platform. The Manitoba Canola Growers Association is calling on its members to provide feedback on the deal. A survey has been launched by the group, based on questions from the Competition Bureau, the MCGA said in an Oct.
CBOT November 2023 soybeans with 20- and 50-day moving averages and December 2023 soymeal (dark grey line, left column). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans surge after USDA projects smaller soy, corn crops

CBOT corn, wheat also higher

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New York | Reuters — Chicago soybean and corn futures shot up on Thursday following a closely watched U.S. government report forecasting a smaller corn and soybean harvest than previously projected, and below an average of analysts’ estimates. The Chicago Board of Trade’s (CBOT) most-active soybean futures contract jumped about three per cent to settle
(Christophe Paul photo courtesy USDA)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets react bullishly to USDA report

Corn, soy production estimates revised lower

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MarketsFarm — Most of the October world agricultural supply/demand estimates (WASDE) released Thursday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) came out lower than trade expectations, causing price jumps on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). “Many people were not expecting a major (average) yield change,” Ryan Ettner, trader for Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill.
Ending stocks of Canadian canola for 2023-24 are expected to tighten to one million tonnes.
Grain Markets, Markets

Speculators bet against canola

Support is drawn from declines in farmer selling

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The ICE Futures canola market held within a narrow trading range during the first week of October, testing downside support on several occasions as seasonal harvest pressure wound down, but the market lacked any spark to move higher. November canola found major support around $710 per tonne. Any attempts to break lower quickly ran out
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Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Demand for feed grains ‘in a lull’

U.S. corn harvest a work in progress

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MarketsFarm — Despite prices continuing to come down for feed grains in Western Canada, demand for them is currently at a standstill, according to Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. “I think we’re in that lull time right now between corn and barley (deliveries) as the (U.S.) corn harvest is underway,” Leclerc said,

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