CBOT December 2022 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans end lower on crop prospects

Wheat down on cancelled export tender

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell more than two per cent on Tuesday and soybeans also declined on optimism for sizable U.S. crops and some forecasts for rain next week, despite pockets of stress from hot and dry conditions, traders said. Wheat futures finished lower after a choppy session, declining after Egypt’s state

CBOT December 2022 corn (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat up on broad commodity strength

Crop-stressing dry heat expected in Midwest

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat futures rose on Monday in response to worries about potentially stressful hot weather in the Midwest and Europe, coupled with bullish sentiment in crude oil and a weaker dollar, analysts said. Chicago Board of Trade benchmark December corn settled up seven cents at $6.10-3/4 per bushel,


CBOT September 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20- and 200-day moving averages (green and black lines), MGEX September 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. September 2022 hard red wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat hits five-month low

Corn, soy firm on U.S. weather outlook

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures tumbled to a five-month low on Friday, with hopes for a pick-up in exports from war-torn Ukraine threatening the recent gains made in demand for U.S. supplies, traders said. Corn futures firmed again, their seventh gain in the last eight sessions, on concerns about hot

Farmers demanding higher bids from grain dealers could contribute to rising prices at the grocery store.

U.S. farmers look for premium on remaining 2021 crop

Sellers remain stubborn in the U.S., waiting to see what happens

Reuters – American grain buyers will have to boost prices to pry farmers’ corn and soybeans from their bins as growers are already flush with cash and can afford to wait and see if the market rallies. “I assume we are going to have to bid up throughout the summer,” a grain dealer in Ohio


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Feed weekly outlook: Grains under pressure awaiting new crop

Farmers 'digging in and being patient'

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in Western Canada continue to come under pressure, as feedlots chew through corn imports from the United States and wait on the new-crop harvest. “We’re certainly seeing things soften,” said grain trader Shaun Smith of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. Declines in the Chicago futures and good Prairie growing conditions

CBOT September 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20- and 100-day moving averages (green and black lines), MGEX September 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. September 2022 hard red wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat futures extend losing streak

Soybeans weak, corn firm

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell for the fourth straight day on Thursday on optimism about a deal that could lead to the resumption of Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports, traders said. Corn futures rose for the sixth time in seven sessions on growing concerns about hot weather stunting crop development in the


Weather-related rallies remain a possibility for spring wheat.

Traders shed long positions in grain, oilseed futures

The canola trade is now net short for the first time in two years

Broad swings in global energy and financial markets in the first week of July led to erratic activity in grains and oilseeds. Many commodities saw large amounts of speculative money flushed out as concerns over a possible global recession sparked a round of long liquidation. ICE Futures canola fell to its weakest levels in more than five months but was showing signs of

CBOT December 2022 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soybean futures rise

Chicago wheat ends weaker

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures gained 1.5 per cent on Wednesday, supported by concerns that hot and dry weather in the U.S. Midwest could cut into harvest yields, traders said. Soybean futures also were firm, recovering from sharp declines after the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report



Brazil’s dry weather boosts second corn harvest

Hotter and drier weather in key Brazilian corn growing areas gave a boost to harvesting work, especially in Brazil’s top grain state Mato Grosso, according to a survey by AgRural released June 27. The agribusiness consultancy said 20.3 per cent of the area cultivated with second corn was harvested in the center-south of the country