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Finding the price in the new age

With delisted futures contracts, who’s responsible for price discovery?

By Brian Wittal December 21, 2017

Over the past five years there have been major changes to the Prairie grain marketing landscape that have — or should have — changed the way you market your grain. The biggest change, and no doubt the catalyst for many of the changes since, was the removal of the monopoly marketing powers of the Canadian […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans at three-month low

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News December 21, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to a three-month low on Thursday, the sixth straight session of declines, on pressure from easing vegetable oil prices and improving crop weather in South America. Wheat and corn futures both were the highest in more than a week, with prices notching narrow gains on better-than-expected U.S. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on frigid weather

By GFM Network News December 20, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rebounded on Wednesday to notch a 1-1/2-week high on worries about frigid weather across the Wheat Belt that threatens to damage crops lacking protective snow cover. Corn also rose on spillover support from wheat and as traders covered short positions following recent contract lows. Soybeans fell to three-month […] Read more

Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans slump on technical selling

By GFM Network News December 19, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Tuesday for the ninth time in 10 sessions on technical selling and forecasts for crop-boosting rains in South America. Corn firmed on short-covering after touching contract lows, but prices remain capped by abundant supplies. Wheat futures ended mostly lower, with only hard red winter wheat contracts […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink to three-month lows on Argentine rains

By GFM Network News December 18, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures slumped to three-month lows on Monday as rain in Argentina eased concerns that farmers would scale back planting in the country, the third-largest soybean exporter and top soy product supplier. Corn futures also declined on the rainy Argentine weather and pressure from abundant supplies of the grain. Wheat […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soybean futures ease

By GFM Network News December 15, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures dipped on Friday, hitting fresh contract lows after giving up early gains on technical selling, traders said. Soybean futures also weakened slightly, pressured by forecasts for improving crop weather in South America. The outlook for rain added to the pressure on corn. “Corn tried the upside early on […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop, wheat firms, corn slips

By GFM Network News December 14, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures sagged to their lowest in more than two months on Thursday, weighed down by forecasts for much-needed rains in Argentina, traders said. Wheat futures closed firm, supported by strong export data, while corn slipped. The most-active soybean contract on the Chicago Board of Trade dropped 1.2 per cent. […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Features

New cereal seed varieties for 2018

This year’s crop of varieties are all about fighting fusarium and increasing crop yields

By Leeann Minogue December 13, 2017

You only need to take a quick look at this list to see that seed companies are responding to farmers’ needs. Fusarium continues to be a problem across the Prairies (where there isn’t a drought). On July 13, 2017, farmers across most of Manitoba were facing a red zone on the fusarium head blight (FHB) […] Read more

Robert Ellis, his wife Kaylie Ellis and their son Rixten live west of Elrose, Saskatchewan.

Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Robert Ellis

Every farm has a story. Here’s the story of one in west-central Saskatchewan

By Leeann Minogue December 12, 2017

Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, Prairie farmers are […] Read more

(Mark Wilson photo courtesy Louis Dreyfus Co.)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag as South American crop prospects improve

By GFM Network News December 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell to a three-week low on Tuesday on improving weather in Argentina and rising estimates of Brazil’s soybean crop, while corn and wheat futures hit life-of-contract lows. CBOT January soybeans settled down 6-3/4 cents at $9.75-3/4 a bushel after dipping to $9.75, the contract’s lowest […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

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

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

Spring wheat

Finding the price in the new age

U.S. grains: Soybeans at three-month low

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on frigid weather

U.S. grains: Soybeans slump on technical selling

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink to three-month lows on Argentine rains

U.S. grains: Corn, soybean futures ease

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop, wheat firms, corn slips

New cereal seed varieties for 2018

Meet your farming neighbours: Robert Ellis

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag as South American crop prospects improve

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