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CBOT January 2021 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Crop prices slide as pandemic concerns rattle markets

Traders await U.S. export sales data Thursday

By Christopher Walljasper, GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 29, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures fell on Wednesday as part of a broad sell-off in markets fueled by concerns about the economic impact of a global surge in COVID-19 cases, traders said. Losses in agricultural futures pulled corn prices back from a 14-month high reached on Tuesday and soybean prices down

A freighter is loaded with grain from a terminal at Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Grain, oilseed exports running ahead of average

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 16, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian grain and oilseed exports have left the country at a rapid pace during the first 10 weeks of the 2020-21 crop year, with canola, wheat,and barley movement-to-date all up substantially on the year. Total exports of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds as of Sunday came in at 9.57 million tonnes, according to

The USDA building in Washington, D.C. (Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

USDA data show tighter U.S. grain, oilseed stocks

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team September 30, 2020

MarketsFarm — Quarterly stocks data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed tighter-than-expected supplies of soybeans, corn, and wheat in the country. Soybean stocks, as of Sept. 1, 2020, were pegged at 523 million bushels, which was down by 42 per cent from the previous year and below average trade estimates. Corn stocks were below

File photo of Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaking to media in Winnipeg in March 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Markets, Other

Canada not benefiting from CETA, Bibeau says

Ex-premiers write to Ottawa with critique of EU's continued trade barriers

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News September 26, 2020

Canada is not benefiting from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU), federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau grants. Expected to spur $1.5 billion in new agri-food exports, the free trade deal has fallen short of those targets since its implementation in 2017. In a letter Monday to Prime Minister Justin

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prices gain strength

By GFM Network News September 3, 2020

MarketsFarm — Harvest activity in the western Canadian Prairies had depressed feed grain prices at the end of August, but prices have recovered slightly. “There’s been a bit of a break in harvest activity,” Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge said. Producers in southern Alberta had been harvesting barley at the end of

Grain being loaded on a ship at the Hudson Bay port of Churchill in 2015. (MarketsFarm photo by Jade Markus)

Crops, Weather

Churchill’s shipping season to start next month

Tracks 'in good shape' leading to northern Manitoba port

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 14, 2020

MarketsFarm — There won’t be any vessels laden with grains and pulses departing from the Port of Churchill until next month, according to Murad Al-Katib, CEO of AGT Foods in Regina. “We’re in the early days of harvest, so it would be very normal to expect the first vessels to arrive in the first half

CBOT July 2020 soybeans with 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on China demand, economic optimism

Equities rally as economies reopen, dollar eases

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume May 26, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures firmed and soybeans posted their strongest advance in a month on Tuesday as rising equities and energy markets and a weakening U.S. dollar triggered short-covering in commodities battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Wheat followed corn and soy higher but reversed course amid forecasts for crop-boosting rains in rival

Crops, Markets

Farmer deliveries well above average in April

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team May 26, 2020

MarketsFarm — Farmer deliveries of major grains into the Canadian commercial pipeline were up substantially in April, hitting their third-highest monthly total on record, according to updated data Statistics Canada released Monday. Farmers in April delivered 5.868 million tonnes of major grains, about a million tonnes above the monthly average during the 2019-20 crop-year-to-date, and

CBOT July 2020 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Futures rebound on Chinese buying, Midwest frost concerns

Freezing forecast raises concern about Midwest crops

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume May 7, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures prices rebounded on Thursday on renewed Chinese buying of corn and soy and as forecasts for sub-freezing temperatures across the country stoked concerns that some vulnerable crops may sustain damage. Gains, however, were tempered by plentiful supplies and worries about demand as traders started positioning ahead

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Global grain production to exceed 2.2 billion tonnes, IGC predicts

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 2, 2020

MarketsFarm — The International Grain Council (IGC) has revised its latest monthly forecast of global grain production down slightly. The IGC projected global production in 2020-21 to hit 2.218 billion tonnes its April 30 report, for a drop of five million tonnes from its March estimate. The reduction was due to the dry conditions in

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

Tag Archives Grains

U.S. grains: Crop prices slide as pandemic concerns rattle markets

Grain, oilseed exports running ahead of average

USDA data show tighter U.S. grain, oilseed stocks

Canada not benefiting from CETA, Bibeau says

Feed weekly outlook: Prices gain strength

Churchill’s shipping season to start next month

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on China demand, economic optimism

Farmer deliveries well above average in April

U.S. grains: Futures rebound on Chinese buying, Midwest frost concerns

Global grain production to exceed 2.2 billion tonnes, IGC predicts

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