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A recent major league baseball saga is a good reminder of how grain and oilseed markets can also find themselves caught up in hype at times, with all signs pointing one way – until they aren’t.

Baseball hype a case study for markets

Expert's Radar: Sometimes it’s too easy to be swept away in market excitement

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 27, 2023

For one brief shining moment, the best two-way baseball player in generations and most sought-after free agent this offseason, Shohei Ohtani, was definitely coming to play in Canada for the Toronto Blue Jays. All the signs were there: a private jet was flying from Los Angeles to Toronto; an upscale sushi restaurant was booked for

Soybean futures ZSH24 on Dec. 22 with the 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soybean, grain futures firm ahead of holidays

Railways between U.S. and Mexico reopened five days after key trade routes closed

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters December 22, 2023

Chicago Board of Trade soybean and grain futures firmed on Friday, as traders adjusted their positions before the year-end holidays after a flurry of economic data showed underlying inflation pressures continuing to ease.

Crops, Markets

Rising loonie and weaker futures weigh on spring wheat bids

The Canadian dollar strengthened relative to its United States counterpart

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 22, 2023

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada were mostly lower during the week ended Dec. 21, as strength in the Canadian dollar and losses in the United States futures weighed on values.

Crops, Livestock, Markets

More local barley destined for rations, but U.S. corn still moving

Prior to drought year 2021/22, Canadian corn imports had rarely topped two million tonnes

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 22, 2023

Recently revised supply/demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada raised the forecast for domestic barley usage in the current crop year to 6.155 million tonnes. That compares with an earlier forecast of 5.471 million tonnes. If realized, that would be up by roughly 200,000 tonnes from the previous year.

CBOT soybeans ZSH24 on Dec. 21. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on Brazilian rain forecasts

Corn up on technical bounce, wheat up on weaker dollar

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters December 21, 2023

Chicago soybean futures fell on Thursday as traders focused on forecasts calling for rain in Brazil, tempering some concerns over yield losses in the world's top oilseed exporter.

A farmer in China piles wheat. Photo: Reuters/File

Markets

China to push for higher grain yields to ensure food security

Chinese corn breeders are preparing to double the amount of GMO corn planted next year

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 21, 2023

China, the world's top buyer of soy and corn, will push for higher grain yields across large areas of farmland as it seeks to ensure food security for its huge population, state media reported on Wednesday, citing an annual rural policy meeting.

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago corn futures hit new lows

Exports being lost because of US-Mexico rail crossing closures, industry says

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters December 20, 2023

Chicago front-months' corn contracts hit new lows on Wednesday after the U.S. government closed two key rail crossings into Mexico, the top importer of U.S. corn, in response to rising migrant crossings.

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. wheat remains rangebound

U.S. wheat prices essentially bottomed out during late November; recovered somewhat in December

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 20, 2023

United States wheat prices have been in something of a quandary lately, with any hope of higher prices curtailed by the need to remain competitive with cheaper Russian wheat, according to Tom Lilja of Progressive Ag in Fargo, North Dakota.

Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans turn lower on rain forecast in Brazil

Wheat futures rose on a technical bounce

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters December 19, 2023

Chicago soybean futures turned lower on Tuesday, as weather forecasts called for Brazil's dry crop belts getting some much-needed rainfall in the coming days.

Soybeans ZSF24 for Dec. 18 with Bollinger bands over 20 days. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as Argentina seeks to raise meal, oil export taxes

Good export demand also underpinned soybeans

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Reuters December 18, 2023

U.S. soybean futures clawed back early losses and ended higher on Monday on good U.S. export demand and after Argentina's new government said it would raise export taxes on soymeal and soyoil in the world's supplier of the soy products.

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: No upside for peas until after New Year

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat sets fresh lows on supply pressure, Ukraine ceasefire talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise, hogs recoup losses

Tag Archives Corn

Baseball hype a case study for markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soybean, grain futures firm ahead of holidays

Rising loonie and weaker futures weigh on spring wheat bids

More local barley destined for rations, but U.S. corn still moving

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on Brazilian rain forecasts

China to push for higher grain yields to ensure food security

U.S. grains: Chicago corn futures hit new lows

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. wheat remains rangebound

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans turn lower on rain forecast in Brazil

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as Argentina seeks to raise meal, oil export taxes

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