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USDA favours corn with 2012 crop insurance price guarantees

March 14, 2012

Chicago / Reuters / Crop insurance price guarantees for 2012 should encourage U.S. farmers to plant corn over soybeans, according to analysts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture set the guarantees, which act as the floor price for crop insurance policies, at $5.68 per bushel for corn and $12.55 a bushel for soybeans across most of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Which wheat market best?

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 14, 2012

The end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk Aug. 1, 2012, will create an increased need for a viable futures market to manage risk and aid in price discovery, said representatives of the Chicago Board of Trade, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and ICE Futures Canada as they highlighted the benefits of using their respective contracts

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

Cattle tumble after setting record high

By Karl Plume March 14, 2012

U.S. live cattle futures fell sharply March 2 in a profit-taking setback ahead of the weekend, after posting an all-time high late this week, amid worries that demand for high-priced beef may soon begin to wane, traders said. The plunge came as cash cattle in the southern U.S. Plains traded at a record-high $130 per hundredweight, up

Crops, Grain Markets, News

Open interest tiny amid CWB doubts, timing

By Rod Nickel March 5, 2012

After nearly four weeks of trading, open interest is tiny in the new milling wheat, barley and durum futures and options contracts offered by ICE Futures Canada. “I don’t think it’s fair to say we were looking for a lot of liquidity at this point in time with the contracts,” said Brad Vannan, president and

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Expect canola industry to seek even more acres

By MarketsFarm Team, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 5, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts remained pointed decidedly higher during the week ended Feb. 17, showing no real signs of slowing down. Similar gains in the Chicago soy complex did provide some underlying support to the Canadian futures, but canola was also benefiting from its own bullish fundamental and technical factors. Depending on the chart

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Analyst says another price surge unlikely

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

An economic storm overseas has resulted in a few waves hitting Canadian shores, leaving canola markets slightly dampened by volatility and uncertainty. The European debt crisis, along with a weak American economy, has affected canola markets, ProFarmer Canada’s Mike Jubinville told farmers attending Ag Days. “Certainly this has always been and will continue to be

Cereals, News, Opinion

It’s today’s price, not the future price

February 15, 2012

Stirling Moss, a famous racing driver of the 1950s, once said that the male of the human species will admit to not being good at just about anything except being a good driver or a good lover. If we are talking about some of the grain farmer subspecies, we might add a third skill, that

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Checks and balances needed, post-CWB

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

With the end of single-desk grain marketing in sight, producers and farm organizations are focusing on filling in the gaps and supporting a stable transition to an open market. “There are more questions than answers,” said Don Dewar, chairman of an ad hoc Keystone Agricultural Producers committee looking at issues grain producers will face in

Livestock, News

Cattle prices start 2012 at a new historical high

By David Drozd February 15, 2012

Live cattle and feeder cattle rallied to a new historical high last week. In reaching $150, feeder cattle prices achieved a technical measurement derived from a rectangle pattern. Rectangles, or box formations as they are sometimes called, are found frequently on futures price charts. Most of the time, they are continuation, or sideways consolidation patterns,

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Traders feel out ICE’s new wheat, barley contracts

By Dwayne Klassen February 15, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform posted small to modest advances during the week ended Jan. 27. Most of the buying interest was concentrated in the deferred values, where concerns about dry growing conditions during the spring and summer on the Prairies fuelled some of the strength. The strong export lineup at

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle sink ahead of semi-annual inventory report

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat futures firm on recent dollar slide, winter weather

Feed Grains Weekly: More consideration being given to U.S. corn

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