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U.S. grains: Corn jumps three per cent, most in seven months

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 13, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– Front-month U.S. corn futures rose three per cent on Wednesday, their biggest single-day advance since September, on short-covering and concerns about planting prospects in the Midwest, analysts said. Concerns about South American weather lent support. Soybean futures also charged higher, buoyed by chart-based buying and data showing strong demand from China,

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans set eight-month highs in comeback rally

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 12, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain futures jumped on short-covering and technical buying on Tuesday, with soybeans closing at eight-month highs after a see-saw session. Heavy buying by commodity investors helped drive the gains, with funds snapping up an estimated 15,000 soybean contracts and 20,000 corn contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, traders said.

Hard white winter wheat growing in North Carolina in 2010. (Dave Marshall photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat to five-week low on forecasts for rains

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 11, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell three per cent to a five-week low on Monday as weekend rains in the U.S. Plains, and forecasts for more next weekend, eased worries about yield prospects, traders said. Corn followed wheat down, but soybeans rose to an eight-month high on technically driven trade. At the Chicago

Crops, Markets

Corn, wheat prices seen hitting 10-year lows in 2016

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide April 9, 2016

Geneva | Reuters — Hefty supplies, large expected crops and poor U.S. exports will weigh on grain prices later this year with corn and wheat set to drop to 10-year lows as harvest nears, consultancy AgResource said Friday. In its first 2016 price forecast, the U.S.-based consultancy forecast Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) December corn

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U.S. grains: Wheat dips again on weak sales, improving crop

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 7, 2016

Reuters — Chicago wheat dropped on Thursday for the fourth straight session on lacklustre weekly export sales and the improving condition of the U.S. winter crop. Soybeans slid in a correction from Monday’s highest price since Aug. 17 and corn rose on speculation U.S. farmers may switch some acres to soy. The most-active May wheat

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North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 6, 2016

CNS Canada — North Dakota farmers will be seeding less spring wheat this year — but the acreage may not be down by as much as the U.S. Department of Agriculture now forecasts. In its Prospective Plantings report, released last Thursday, USDA forecast North Dakota spring wheat area for 2016 (excluding durum) at 5.7 million

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat drops to near one-week low as crop progresses

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 6, 2016

Reuters — Chicago wheat fell on Wednesday to a nearly one-week low, pressured by a U.S. Department of Agriculture report that revealed U.S. wheat was progressing faster than expected. Corn rose to its highest in almost a week, following technical indicators. Soybeans gained on bargain-buying. The Chicago Board of Trade’s most-active May wheat contract fell

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U.S. grains: Soy dips as farmers are expected to expand plantings

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 5, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures on Tuesday extended a setback from the nearly eight-month highs reached a day earlier, as wet weather fueled projections that farmers will plant more fields with the oilseed than previously expected. Rainy, cool conditions in the U.S. South and Midwest could prompt growers to switch one million to

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat from August peak

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 4, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures slumped on Monday as traders took profits after prices reached their highest point since August on technical buying and last week’s government forecast for lower-than-expected plantings. Corn prices ended mixed as traders digested the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) estimate for much larger-than-expected U.S. plantings of the yellow

Cereals, News

It might be feed, but it’s not necessarily feed wheat

Reporting winter wheat as feed wheat,  just because it happened to be fed to animals,  ignores the true grade of the crop

By Allan Dawson April 1, 2016

Just because you’re selling winter wheat into the feed market, doesn’t mean you should report it to crop insurance as grading “feed.” While doing so won’t affect a claim, or your individual long-term coverage, it could over time negatively affect the province-wide crop insurance grade guarantee for winter wheat, which currently is No. 3 Canada

Daily Network News

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Winter wheat

U.S. grains: Corn jumps three per cent, most in seven months

U.S. grains: Soybeans set eight-month highs in comeback rally

U.S. grains: Wheat to five-week low on forecasts for rains

Corn, wheat prices seen hitting 10-year lows in 2016

U.S. grains: Wheat dips again on weak sales, improving crop

North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

U.S. grains: Wheat drops to near one-week low as crop progresses

U.S. grains: Soy dips as farmers are expected to expand plantings

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat from August peak

It might be feed, but it’s not necessarily feed wheat

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