Corn & Production Tips

Feed grains weekly: USDA ups global coarse grain estimate

Production up 4.4 per cent on year

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 14, 2025

Total world coarse grain production in 2025/26 is forecast to be up by 25 million tonnes from earlier estimates, largely due to increased corn production in the United States, according to the latest Feed Outlook from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released Aug. 14.

Corn, Markets, Soybeans

Large crops to weigh on CBOT corn/soybeans

“We have a lot of corn out there”

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 13, 2025

Expectations for a record large corn harvest in the United States this year are overhanging the futures market, which should keep values under pressure through the harvest season.

Cereals, Corn, Markets, Soybeans

Record yields forecast for U.S. corn and soybeans

Corn at 188.8 bu./ac. soybeans at 53.6 bu./ac.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 12, 2025

Record large corn and soybean yields are expected in the United States this year, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Aug. 12.

The Chicago Board of Trade Building. Photo: Kevinstack22/iStock/Getty Images

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: More pressure on grain prices

U.S. grain, soybean prices to go lower: analyst

By Adam Peleshaty August 6, 2025

Corn, soybean and wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade continue to drop and one Chicago-based analyst says they are going to be even lower.

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

Corn, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT Weekly: ‘It’s a weather game now’ says Lusk

If soybeans fall under $10, corn to slip below $4

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 23, 2025

As the rest of July plays out, United States soybeans and corn will remain in a weather market, said Sean Lusk, vice-president of Walsh Commodity Hedging Services in Chicago.

“But we lost a lot of acres… which suggests to me that some organic guys have let some of their organics land go. And they are growing canola on the side,” says Laura Telford. Photo: Greg Berg

Canola, Cereals, Corn, Pulses

AAFC updates canola in July balance sheet

Bases revision on latest StatCan numbers

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 22, 2025

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada revised its canola estimates in its July supply and demand report released on July 21.

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Grain prices showing weakness

USDA report, trade tensions pressure markets

By Adam Peleshaty July 16, 2025

Grain prices at the Chicago Board of Trade were on the weaker side for the week ended July 16 due to last week's USDA report and ongoing trade tensions.

Corn, Soybeans, Winter Wheat

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

By Reuters, Tom Polansek July 14, 2025

Bargain buying and short covering lifted U.S. corn futures on Monday after the market slid to contract lows on expectations for strong U.S. output, traders said.

Corn bids and offers have lately been far apart, with bids generally a dollar or more below the C$12 per bushel Ontario farmers would like to see. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Barley, Corn, Markets

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices in a slow decline

Seasonal weakness, rains pressure barley

By Adam Peleshaty July 10, 2025

Seasonal weakness and recent rains across the Prairies pressured feed grain prices according to a Moose Jaw-based trader.

File photo of a Chinese cornfield. (Baona/iStock/Getty Images)

Cereals, Corn, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

USDA attaché forecasts larger Chinese corn, wheat crops

But imports drop over last two years

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 3, 2025

Corn and wheat production in China is expected to increase in 2025/26, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Beijing said in a report released July 3.

GFM Network News

Klassen: Cash feeder market divorces from futures market

Russia’s seaborne grain exports fell 10 per cent year-on-year in September, data shows

India and Canada agree on new roadmap for relations

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