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USDA’s reports pressure canola, wheat, corn and soy

By Dwayne Klassen April 9, 2013

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform were forced into losses during the holiday-shortened week ending March 28 by the release of some bearishly construed U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. Canola had been edging upward until that point. Concerns about tight old-crop supplies, steady export demand and some light domestic crusher needs had

Grain Markets, News

CME pares back grain trading hours

By Tom Polansek March 29, 2013

CME Group Inc. said March 5 that it plans to pare its nearly non-stop trading cycle for grains and oilseeds to 17-1/2 hours per session after traders complained a move to extend activity had hurt liquidity. CME, owner of the Chicago Board of Trade, sought to shorten the trading day less than a year after

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Exchanges duke it out over Canadian wheat futures market

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 28, 2013

After decades of marketing wheat through the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk, the western Canadian grain sector is still working out the best way to hedge the commodity seven months into the new open market. Representatives of the CME Group, Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX), and ICE Futures Canada were all on hand at the annual

Crops, Grain Markets

CME expects volume to return in time

By Mark Weinraub March 28, 2013

Reuters / CME Group’s plan to scale back its trading day for grain contracts will likely provide a boost to volume and liquidity, but traders said it will take time for investors to return to the market. “I think if they compress the hours again… it serves the needs of the customers who actually use

Crops, Grain Markets, Livestock

Hedge funds get bullish on corn and natural gas

By Barani Krishnan March 25, 2013

Hedge funds and other big speculators raised their bullish bets on U.S. commodities for the first time in five weeks, piling mostly into natural gas and corn due to favourable supply-and-demand situations, trade data showed Mar. 15. Natural gas saw close to $2 billion worth of new net long contracts by the so-called money managers

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Speculators’ chart-based interest punches up canola

By Dwayne Klassen March 16, 2013

Support in the outside oilseed markets allowed canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform to push slightly higher during the week ended March 8. Strength in canola earlier in the week was derived from chart-based buying by speculative and commodity fund participants. Steady demand from the domestic and export sectors, combined with concerns about

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Hard red winter futures trading set to expand

By Mark Weinraub March 16, 2013

The CBOT has acquired the Kansas City exchange and will move trading of the benchmark contract to Chicago

The Kansas City Board of Trade’s lightly traded hard red winter wheat futures contract is positioned to become the new benchmark for U.S. wheat prices following a takeover by CME Group, traders said. The size of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is the best argument for why volumes for the futures contract that

Crops, News, Oilseeds

U.S. crop insurance guarantees push big acres

By Julie Ingwersen March 16, 2013

Reuters / Crop insurance that guarantees prices for the 2013 growing season should encourage U.S. farmers to again plant a large number of acres, with soybeans possibly claiming ground from corn, analysts said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency set the guarantees March 1, which act as the “floor price” for crop insurance

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Farmers locked in acres last fall with fertilizer applications

March 16, 2013

chicago / reuters / Recent declines in U.S. corn futures prices have failed to dent growers’ enthusiasm for planting the feed grain this spring, even though soybean prices have outperformed corn, farmers and analysts said. Crop insurance guarantees, money spent on fertilizer and recent rainy weather in key growing areas have cemented the acreage decisions

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Boats backed up in Brazil may buoy business in canola

By Dwayne Klassen March 7, 2013

Overbought price sentiment and steady farmer deliveries into the Prairie grain elevator system were just enough to cause canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform to move slightly lower during the week ended March 1. The steady deterioration of Malaysian palm oil and European rapeseed values during the reporting period helped to undermine

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EU states back record South America trade deal after 25 years

World food prices extend fall in December, UN’s FAO says

U.S. grains: Wheat futures backpedal as US rains ease weather worries

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