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The USDA and AAFC differ on Canada’s canola ending stocks for 2025/26, while an analyst says both agencies are wrong. Photo: Greg Berg

Large gap in canola ending stocks between AAFC, USDA

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 2 days ago

There’s a 760,000-tonne difference in the ending stocks for Canada’s 2025/26 canola crop respectively estimated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the United States Department of Agriculture. Aside from that, the canola data from AAFC and the USDA remain quite similar.

Markets, News, soybeans

USDA, attachés differ on South American soybeans

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 3 days ago

Prior to the January supply and demand report being released by the United States Department of Agriculture, its attachés in Argentina and Brazil issued their respective reports on oilseed production for 2025/26.

Markets, News

Larger U.S. corn carryout forecast; soybeans/wheat also up

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 3 days ago

Corn ending stocks in the United States for 2025/26 will be much larger than earlier expectations, according to updated supply/demand tables from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

USABLE UNTIL JAN. 12, 2026
A worker handles a tray with Mediterranean fruit flies inside a bio-factory as Mexico's government reconditions a plant to a new sterile screwworm fly facility, part of the country's effort to eradicate the flesh-eating parasite that threatens its livestock industry and raises tensions with the United States, in Metapa de Dominguez, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2025. Photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters

Livestock, News

Canada too cold for New World screwworm

Cattle producers still need to be mindful of the tropical pathogen as Texas braces for outbreak

By Jeff Melchior December 17, 2025

New World screwworm is closing in on the U.S. from Mexico, but the deadly livestock parasite isn’t likely to dig a surviving population in Canada, even if the fly species sneaks over the border.

Markets, soybeans, spring-wheat, winter-wheat

USDA sees tighter U.S. corn stocks, soybeans and wheat unchanged

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 9, 2025

The USDA is forecasting tighter U.S. corn ending stocks for 2025/26 due to increased exports. The supply/demand balance sheets for soybeans and wheat were unchanged.

Cereals, Markets, News, spring-wheat, winter-wheat

USDA predicts more wheat in Australia, smaller crops elsewhere

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 21, 2025

Australia will grow more wheat in 2025/26 than earlier expectations, but production will likely be down on the year in Turkey and Kazakhstan, according to several attaché reports released by the United States Department of Agriculture on Nov. 20, as it continues to catch up following the federal government shutdown.

Markets

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 14, 2025

The United States sold at least 332,000 tonnes of soybeans to China during the government shutdown, with more business to “unknown destinations” also likely headed to the country, according to a cache of daily sales data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Nov. 14.

Markets, News

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 14, 2025

Soybean and corn yields in the United States were revised downward from earlier estimates in updated supply/demand tables from the United States Department of Agriculture released Nov. 14.

Crops, Markets, Reuters

The U.S. corn crop could be the biggest ever. That’s terrible news for America’s farmers.

By P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters October 27, 2025

The USDA predicts a record corn crop for U.S. farmers, who question the agency’s accuracy amidst high debt and low crop prices.

Banners of U.S. President Donald Trump and President Abraham Lincoln reading “Growing America Since 1862” hang over the entrance to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Markets, News, Reuters

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as U.S. shutdown blocks key crop data

By Reuters October 10, 2025

U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the country’s federal government shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder contracts surge, hogs rise

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb as soyoil futures surge

New Syngenta fungicide targets anthracnose, white mould, Ascochyta blight

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