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(Lisa Guenther photo)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat tumble as U.S. dollar firms

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 22, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grains and oilseeds fell more than one per cent on Friday, with soybeans tumbling to the lowest levels since October in a broad commodities selloff as the dollar rallied against a basket of global currencies. Soybeans, corn and wheat each reversed earlier gains and fell to session lows as the

(Lisa Guenther photo)
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps on global weather worries, corn follows

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 21, 2015
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures rose more than one per cent on Thursday, lifted by worries that U.S. rains could reduce grain quality and that dry conditions in Russia and Canada would stress crops. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures also jumped, rising in sympathy with wheat, while soybeans were nearly unchanged, anchored


Planting corn in south-central Manitoba in May 2014. (Co-operator photo by Allan Dawson)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy at seven-month low, corn weak on favourable weather

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 20, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to seven-month lows and corn to one-week lows on Wednesday, pressured by forecasts for nearly ideal growing conditions for the crops next week. Temperatures were seen warming up by next week after a chill that supported prices earlier this week. Coupled with recent rainfall in the U.S. Midwestern

(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall to contract lows on speedy plantings

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 19, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to contract lows while corn eased 1.7 per cent on Tuesday, pressured by faster-than-normal spring plantings and overall favourable crop conditions in the U.S. Wheat futures tumbled two per cent at the Chicago Board of Trade, with all three markets reversing from gains in the previous session as


(Lisa Guenther photo)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps on more U.S. rains, frost fears

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 18, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat surged more than two per cent to the highest level in a month on Monday as forecasts for rains in the U.S. Plains revived concerns about crop damage and encouraged buying among investors with large short positions. Worries that frost and cold temperatures could reduce yields in the northern

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn falls to lowest since October on rapid plantings

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 1, 2015
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. grains shed as much as one per cent on Friday as investors sold off positions on the first day of May amid bearish headwinds of rapid pace of spring plantings and a strong dollar that could limit export prospects. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures fell to the lowest levels


(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat slumps on record-large export cancellations

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer April 30, 2015
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat fell as much as two per cent on Thursday, capping its second straight monthly decline on pressure from improving crop conditions in the southern U.S. Plains and disappointing weekly export sales. Corn and soybeans also were lower at the Chicago Board of Trade, weighed down by favourable weather for

(Manitoba Co-operator photo by Allan Dawson)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat rebound on technicals, dollar declines

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer April 29, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grains jumped as much as one per cent on Wednesday, with corn rebounding from a six-month low and wheat from a nearly five-year low on support from short covering and a weaker U.S. dollar. Soybeans also gained at the Chicago Board of Trade, buoyed by a strike of boat captains


(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat higher on short-covering after nearly five-year low

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer April 28, 2015
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures were narrowly higher on Tuesday, rising in a short-covering bounce after tumbling to their lowest levels since June of 2010 earlier in the session. Bargain buying, coupled with a weaker dollar, offset pressure from stable U.S. crop conditions and recent rains in dry portions of the southern Plains.

(Lisa Guenther photo)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat fall to six-month lows on weather

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer April 27, 2015
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and wheat futures fell on Monday to their lowest levels since October, on outlooks for speedy corn plantings in the U.S. Midwest and crop-friendly rains in the southern Plains wheat belt. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn futures extended declines to their sixth straight session amid forecasts for dry


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