Agriculture in the United States Archives

There goes the neighbourhood

By Alan Guebert April 19, 2017

Farmers and ranchers pride themselves on neighbourliness, and rightly so. Rare is the season, after all, when the local newspaper or radio station doesn’t carry a lump-in-the-throat story explaining how neighbours of an ill or injured member of a farm or ranch family gathered for a day or two to do a month or two’s

Comment

U.S. farmers should vote like it’s 2018

The free enterprise rhetoric of U.S. farmers and farm groups may be about to catch up to them

By Alan Guebert October 17, 2016

As this year’s harvest and general election roll into October, key Capitol Hill farm policy players are looking past both events to stake out negotiating territory in the upcoming 2018 Farm Bill fight. It’s not too soon. The Congress elected next month will rewrite the every-five-year law that divvies up nearly $100 billion a year

Cereals, Comment

U.S. wheat shippers putting lousy 2015-16 behind them: Braun

American wheat sales are rebounding after abundant low-cost supplies hit them hard last season

By Karen Braun October 3, 2016

Although it has been dogged by a lot of doom and gloom of late, the U.S. wheat market may be finally starting to see a break in the clouds. Last season, it seemed that the United States just could not sell any wheat, and without the sales, domestic wheat stocks ballooned to the largest volume

Cereals, Comment

Look back to understand how low wheat prices are

Once inflation adjusted, today’s wheat prices are at historic lows, even below Depression-era prices

By Leo Oliva August 16, 2016

Wheat prices are the lowest in actual value since the Civil War, and only farmers are aware of this. Here is some food for thought. I recently harvested my 64th wheat crop and produced more bushels this year than any other year. Many Kansas farmers have had the same experience. Because of record yields, most

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn, wheat tumble; soybeans scramble to flat finish

By Reuters November 26, 2013

* Soybeans unchanged after three straight gains * U.S. corn harvest 95 percent complete * USDA reports fresh soybean sale, China cancellation (Adds closing U.S. prices) By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Corn and wheat prices fell on Tuesday, as the huge U.S. corn harvest wrapped up and investors banked profits from

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids firm on slow sales, soy flat

By Reuters November 14, 2013

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Corn cash basis bids were steady to higher around the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, supported by slow sales as farmers put freshly harvested bushels in storage in the hopes of selling at higher prices later, grain merchants said. * Soybean bids eased 5 cents per bushel at an elevator in Des

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids steady to weak after big sales

By Reuters November 8, 2013

Nov 7 (Reuters) - Corn spot basis bids were steady to lower around the U.S. Midwest on Thursday following a spike in farmer sales ahead of a major crop report due on Friday that is expected to lift estimates for the crop, grain merchants said. * Analysts widely expect the U.S. Agriculture Department to increase

Livestock

Weekly livestock auction report

July 5, 2013

Westward movement of cattle from Manitoba was slow during the week ended June 28, as demand from the West was impacted by recent floods in southern Alberta. Cargill’s packing plant near High River, Alta., had to close down for a few days during the week, Rick Wright of Heartland Buying Order Co. noted. “The plant

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn, soy soar as wetter forecasts threaten U.S. planting

By Reuters June 8, 2013

* Rains set to return after brief dry spell * Coming up: USDA to update planting progress Monday * Japan passes on some U.S. wheat in weekly tender (Adds closing prices, weekly price moves) By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. corn and soybean futures soared on Friday on worries that wetter-than-expected weather

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Markets, News, Oilseeds

Grain market report

May 29, 2013

Weather issues played a role in determining the price direction of the Canadian and U.S. grain and oilseed markets during the week ended May 24 and it looks like this influence is still in the back of everyone’s mind. Canola values on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform trended higher in the latest reporting period,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

Tag Archives Agriculture in the United States

There goes the neighbourhood

U.S. farmers should vote like it’s 2018

U.S. wheat shippers putting lousy 2015-16 behind them: Braun

Look back to understand how low wheat prices are

GRAINS-Corn, wheat tumble; soybeans scramble to flat finish

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids firm on slow sales, soy flat

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids steady to weak after big sales

Weekly livestock auction report

GRAINS-Corn, soy soar as wetter forecasts threaten U.S. planting

Grain market report

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