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Grain market report

May 29, 2013

Weather issues played a role in determining the price direction of the Canadian and U.S. grain and oilseed markets during the week ended May 24 and it looks like this influence is still in the back of everyone’s mind. Canola values on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform trended higher in the latest reporting period,

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn falls as U.S. crop prospects improve; soy rallies

By Reuters May 17, 2013

* Rains to stall U.S. planting but add helpful moisture * Weekly U.S. corn export sales disappoint * Soybeans advance as domestic cash market lifts nearbys * Wheat lower as harvest nears; Russian weather eyed (Updates with closing prices) By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. corn futures fell 1.4 percent on Thursday

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn, soy, wheat mostly lower as planting forecast improves

By Reuters May 9, 2013

* Soybeans firm as processors seek crushing supplies * Corn lower, drags wheat down * Analysts expect heavy corn planting next week (Adds new analyst quote, updates with closing prices, recasts first three paragraphs) By Mark Weinraub CHICAGO, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. grain and soy futures closed mostly lower on Wednesday as farmers geared

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

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

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

JBS to open six new slaughterhouses in Brazil

November 28, 2012

sao paulo / reuters / Brazil’s JBS SA, the world’s biggest integrated meat producer, will open six new slaughterhouses that will increase beef production capacity in the coming months in Brazil by 15 per cent. The new plants will add processing capacity of 1.2 million head of cattle by July 2013, and eventually up to

News

CME Group buys Kansas City exchange, heading off rival ICE

By Ann Saphir, Carey Gillam October 26, 2012

Reuters / CME Group is buying the Kansas City Board of Trade for $126 million in cash, cementing CME’s dominance in world grain futures markets and keeping rival IntercontinentalExchange from gaining an important foothold. It is CME’s first exchange purchase in five years since it wrapped up a buying spree that put the Chicago Mercantile

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Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 15, 2012

The nearby May and July canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some minor declines during the week ended April 5, while the remainder of the futures saw small to modest advances. Profit-taking sparked some of the losses in the two nearby futures, as did an increase in hedge selling by grain

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

South American weather shakes up corn, soybeans

January 24, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed to trend upward over the holiday period ended Jan. 6. Steady demand from the commercial sector provided some of the strength with weather issues in the oilseed-growing areas of South America contributing to the upward momentum. Fresh export business with China further underpinned canola values.

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Summerfallow Acres Expected To Shrink

April 28, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform regained ground during the holiday-shortened week ending April 21. Much of the upturn in values reflected the advances experienced by CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean and soyoil prices. Concerns about the weather in Western Canada and its impact on seeding operations also influenced some of

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures sink on concerns over Trump’s push to lower prices

U.S. grains: Soy hits four-month high on hopes for China trade deal

Canadian Grain Commission to use surplus to avoid fee increases

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