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Capacity to sit on this year’s crop waiting for a better price won’t be an option available to everyone.

Feeling the pinch

Uncertainty across commodity and input markets creates difficult choices for farmers

By Don Norman September 18, 2024

Farmers are facing a tight squeeze this fall. Commodity prices are low, and the lower input prices that they’re used to this time of year are not materializing. Keystone Agricultural Producers president Jill Verwey says it’s a tough time for growers. “Being able to make a profit this year is going to be pretty slim,” […] Read more

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

Markets

CBOT Weekly: Possible Chinese trade action of little concern

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 18, 2024

As price movement in soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade continued to be a tussle between dry conditions in Brazil versus pressure from the United States harvest, Sean Lusk, vice-president of Walsh Commercial Hedging in Chicago, suggested not to pay much attention to any trade action China might soon take against U.S. soybeans.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat slips as concerns over Black Sea tensions fade

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters September 17, 2024

Chicago wheat futures eased on Tuesday as geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine faded into the background and brisk exports of Black Sea wheat continued to pose tough competition to U.S. wheat exports, traders said.

Markets, Pulses

Largest Canadian chickpea crop in over two decades

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 17, 2024

Canadian chickpea production hit its largest level in over two decades in 2024, although the increased supplies have cut into prices.

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

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat and corn slip on profit taking, soy also falls

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters September 16, 2024

Chicago wheat futures dipped from three-month highs on Monday on profit taking following the previous week's rally sparked by crop concerns in Europe and escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, traders said.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat hits 12-week peak on Black Sea tensions

By Reuters, Tom Polansek September 13, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures reached a 12-week high on Friday as escalating tensions in Russia's war with Ukraine increased uncertainty about Black Sea exports.

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Alberta weekly crop report: Harvest yields are coming in lighter than expected

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 13, 2024

Combining of major crops in Alberta progressed 23 points during the week ended Sept. 10, reaching 54 per cent, according to the province's latest weekly crop report. While dry weather helped to advance the harvest, crop yields were not meeting expectations.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn ends higher despite USDA raising US yield outlook

By Julie Ingwersen, Reuters September 12, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended higher on Thursday, rebounding from a drop to near two-week lows after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) raised its estimate of the U.S. corn crop, traders said.

Crops, News

Saskatchewan crop report: Hot, dry conditions help harvest

By Adam Peleshaty September 12, 2024

Saskatchewan’s harvest was more than halfway finished at 61 per cent complete, although not as much as the 68 per cent complete from one year ago. The figure was higher than the 42 per cent reported last week, the five-year average of 50 per cent and the 10-year average of 46 per cent. The southwest region was the nearest to completion at 85 per cent while the northeast region’s harvest was only at 34 per cent.

Coming within market expectations was essentially the central theme in the September supply and demand report (WASDE) from the United States Department of Agriculture released on Sept. 12.

Crops, Markets

USDA’s September numbers meet trade expectations

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 12, 2024

Coming within market expectations was essentially the central theme in the September supply and demand report (WASDE) from the United States Department of Agriculture released on Sept. 12.

Daily Network News

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Pulses

Feeling the pinch

CBOT Weekly: Possible Chinese trade action of little concern

U.S. grains: Wheat slips as concerns over Black Sea tensions fade

Largest Canadian chickpea crop in over two decades

U.S. grains: Wheat and corn slip on profit taking, soy also falls

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat hits 12-week peak on Black Sea tensions

Alberta weekly crop report: Harvest yields are coming in lighter than expected

U.S. grains: Corn ends higher despite USDA raising US yield outlook

Saskatchewan crop report: Hot, dry conditions help harvest

USDA’s September numbers meet trade expectations

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