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CBOT weekly outlook: African swine fever paralyzes futures

By GFM Network News March 20, 2019

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s next crop report due out March 29, market experts are looking to headlines for direction in the Chicago futures. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin return to China next week, with the goal of hammering out a trade deal in weeks to […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: DDGS market to adjust with E15 move

By GFM Network News March 14, 2019

MarketsFarm — The prospect of higher-ethanol gasoline blends year-round in the U.S., and a likely increase in production of the renewable fuel, would also result in more distillers dried grains (DDGS) looking for a home in global livestock feed channels. However, that won’t mean an oversupply of the ethanol byproduct, as feed markets will adjust, […] Read more

CBOT May 2019 corn, with May 2019 soybeans in yellow. (Barchart)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Time running out for trade talks

By GFM Network News March 13, 2019

MarketsFarm — As trade talks between the U.S. and China continue, many are watching headlines closely for hints of what’s to come. The crop commodity market “has been in a downslide for a long time which is mainly due to U.S. and China trade uncertainties,” said Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodity Brokers. “It always sounds […] Read more

Valero Energy’s ethanol plant at Aurora, S.D., about 90 km north of Sioux Falls. (Valero.com)

Corn, Crops, Reuters

Trump’s EPA unveils plan to pump up ethanol as Big Oil cries foul

By GFM Network News March 13, 2019

Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released its proposed rule lifting a summer ban on higher-ethanol blends of gasoline to help farmers, putting the agency on a collision course with Big Oil which has called the move illegal. The proposal to broaden sales of the so-called E15 rule marks the latest flashpoint […] Read more

Emerging corn plants in Canada. (Sophie-Caron/iStock/Getty Images)

Corn, Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan offers up corn rainfall insurance plan

By GFM Network News March 10, 2019

Saskatchewan’s crop insurance offerings for 2019 will include a new program allowing corn growers to insure against a substantial drop in moisture. The provincial and federal government on Feb. 26 rolled out Saskatchewan’s 2019 crop insurance program, in which coverage levels on average are to reach a record $230 per acre, up from $216 last […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

By GFM Network News March 7, 2019

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been on the upswing recently, according to Nelson Neumann of Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “We saw them at the end of last week, the beginning of this week, really jump up. Guys were scrambling to get stuff in before road bans,” he said. He attributed the increased prices […] Read more

CBOT May 2019 soybeans, with May corn in orange. (Barchart)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

By GFM Network News March 6, 2019

MarketsFarm — Fresh news out of U.S./China trade talks will move the soybean and corn markets in the near future, rather than USDA’s next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), according to an analyst following the Chicago Board of Trade. However, a lack of fresh news regarding those trade talks has become a problem […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Market aims to ration tight barley supplies

By GFM Network News February 28, 2019

Tightening feed barley supplies in Western Canada have end-users looking to alternatives, with cheaper U.S. corn imports likely to keep a lid on prices. “Barley stocks are tight, so the market is trying to ration the amount of barley being used and it’s doing a pretty good job of that,” said Jim Beusekom of Market […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans, corn watching trade talks

By GFM Network News February 27, 2019

Movement in grain and oilseed futures at the Chicago Board of Trade remains highly dependent on developments in trade talks between the U.S. and China. China-U.S. trade negotiations have provided some sporadic support for the futures, but there have yet to be any concrete developments. While confirmation of an actual deal would change the outlook, […] Read more

Cracked soybeans enter a SunOpta soymilk processing plant at Modesto, California. (Video screengrab from SunOpta.com via YouTube)

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

SunOpta sheds U.S. Midwest organic corn, soy business

By GFM Network News February 25, 2019

Organic food firm SunOpta Inc. has stepped out of the U.S. organic corn and soybean business in a $66.5 million deal with Minnesota-based organic startup Pipeline Foods. Mississauga-based SunOpta announced Monday it closed a deal with Pipeline last Friday for the Canadian firm’s organic and “specialty” soy and corn operations, which include five plants in […] Read more

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CBOT weekly outlook: African swine fever paralyzes futures

Feed weekly outlook: DDGS market to adjust with E15 move

CBOT weekly outlook: Time running out for trade talks

Trump’s EPA unveils plan to pump up ethanol as Big Oil cries foul

Saskatchewan offers up corn rainfall insurance plan

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

Feed weekly outlook: Market aims to ration tight barley supplies

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans, corn watching trade talks

SunOpta sheds U.S. Midwest organic corn, soy business

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