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Seeding very close to wrapping up in Alberta

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 10, 2024

Spring planting in Alberta has almost wrapped up for this year, with the agriculture ministry pegging it at 97 per cent complete province-wide as of June 4. Seeding advanced 20 points on the week with the pace at the five-year average. The greatest overall progress was made in northeastern, northwestern and central Alberta. The northeast […] Read more

Open interest in the canola market was down by 14,880 contracts on the week. Photo: File

Markets

Fund short position grows in canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 10, 2024

Fund traders were back on the sell side of the canola market in early June, putting on fresh bearish bets and growing their net short position, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of June 4, 2024, the net managed money short position in […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat marks biggest weekly loss in nearly a year as Turkey bans imports

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters June 7, 2024

Chicago wheat futures Wv1 fell for an eighth day on Friday for their lowest close in a month after Turkey said it would halt wheat imports in a blow to the global demand outlook.

Columns, Crops

Zero till: how did it all happen?

Soils & Crops: In Saskatchewan, necessity was the mother of more than one invention

By Les Henry June 7, 2024

In March 1993 in Grainews there appeared a piece by a certain soils columnist titled “A Quiet Revolution in Crop Production.” It concluded that within the next two decades we’d see a revolution in the way we farmed. It came to pass much as predicted — but what made it happen was work in farm […] Read more

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn and soy futures rise on new Brazilian tax rule

By Reuters June 6, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade corn Cv1 and soybean Sv1 futures rose on Thursday as news of tighter rules on industry tax credits in Brazil made traders and producers hopeful that it could boost U.S. export business, traders said.

Photo: Sasapanchenko/iStock/Getty Images

Markets

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices drift down as seeding nears completion

June 6, 2024

The recent influx of moisture across the Prairies put pressure on feed grain prices, according to an Alberta-based trader.

Markets

CBOT Weekly: Selling, crop conditions drive price drops

June 5, 2024

Wheat prices led the way as the July Chicago contract fell 46 cents per bushel at US$4.46. The July Kansas City hard red wheat contract dropped 43.5 cents at US$6.7625/bu., while the July Minneapolis spring wheat contract lost 39.5 cents at US$7.1250/bu.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat falls as U.S. Plains harvest advances, Russia concerns ease

By Reuters June 5, 2024

Chicago benchmark wheat Wv1 futures fell on Wednesday for the sixth day in a row, as progress in the U.S. winter harvest weighed on prices and concerns eased over the Russian crop, traders said.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy down as traders weigh weather and planting progress

By Reuters June 4, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade corn and soy dipped in choppy trade on Tuesday as traders weighed U.S. planting progress and strong corn ratings with adverse weather in importer Mexico and downgrades to soybean harvest forecasts in major exporter Brazil.

Mark Tuttle digs through soil to find soybean sprouts at his soy farm in Somonauk, Illinois, U.S., May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

News, Reuters

US farmers opt for soy to limit losses as all crop prices slump

By Reuters June 4, 2024

In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast farmers would plant 86.5 million acres of soybeans nationwide this spring, the fifth most ever. Some analysts expect soybean acres to increase by another million acres or more as heavy rains close the window on corn planting.

Daily Network News

Chinese pig farmers test fermented feeds as Beijing weans sector off U.S. soy

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Corn

Seeding very close to wrapping up in Alberta

Fund short position grows in canola

U.S. grains: Wheat marks biggest weekly loss in nearly a year as Turkey bans imports

Zero till: how did it all happen?

U.S. grains: Corn and soy futures rise on new Brazilian tax rule

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices drift down as seeding nears completion

CBOT Weekly: Selling, crop conditions drive price drops

U.S. grains: Wheat falls as U.S. Plains harvest advances, Russia concerns ease

U.S. grains: Corn, soy down as traders weigh weather and planting progress

US farmers opt for soy to limit losses as all crop prices slump

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