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China says U.S. soybeans ‘prime target’ over tariffs

By GFM Network News March 9, 2018

Chicago | Reuters –– Chinese officials have said U.S. soybeans are a prime target for retaliation against tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on steel and aluminum imports, according to the American Soybean Association. Farm groups have long feared that China, which imports more than a third of all U.S. soybeans, could slow their purchases […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Alberta pea area tries to hang on

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — Despite a drop in spot prices due to tariffs imposed by India on peas, one industry expert says she isn’t convinced that means acreage will drastically be reduced in Alberta this spring. “I think we’ll see a little bit of a drop, but I don’t think it will be as impactful as […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on profit-taking

By GFM Network News March 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures sank 3.2 per cent on Friday, following a six-day rally that had pushed prices to their highest in 7-1/2 months, traders said. “This has just been a fantastic week of gains,” said Bill Gentry, a broker at Risk Management Commodities. “The funds are taking a […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Reuters

ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

By GFM Network News February 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company’s launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday. ADM sued Syngenta four years ago for selling the corn variety known as Agrisure Viptera or […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Industry adapting to new market reality

By GFM Network News February 14, 2018

CNS Canada — Pulse growers are facing new questions on the Prairies these days as a trade impasse with India forces many farmers to prepare for new market realities. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week will visit India, where the thorny subject of its levies on Canadian pulse exports will be raised. India imposed the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy futures jump on weather woes

By GFM Network News February 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Weather concerns sparked a rally in U.S. wheat and soybean futures on Monday, with forecasts for dry conditions threatening to reduce harvests in key growing areas, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures jumped 3.4 per cent to their highest since Aug. 8 on concerns about dryness […] Read more

Grain sorghum under irrigation at Bushland in northern Texas. (Susan O’Shaughnessy photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

With sorghum warning shot, Beijing targets Trump’s core farm base

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Beijing | Reuters — In launching a probe into U.S. sorghum imports, China has fired a warning shot across its top trading partner’s bow that shows farmers in states that voted for U.S. President Donald Trump may be Beijing’s top retaliatory target in the event of a trade war. On Sunday, the Ministry of Commerce […] Read more

Using blockchain technology, the Easy Trading Connect platform is meant to help digitalize and standardize commodity transactions for paperless trading. (Video screengrab from INGwb.com)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. soy cargo to China traded using blockchain

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 22, 2018

London | Reuters — A cargo of U.S. soybeans shipped to China has become the first fully-fledged agricultural trade conducted using blockchain, participants said Monday. Louis Dreyfus, Shandong Bohi Industry Co., ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro took part in the trade where the sales contract, letter of credit and certificates were digitalized on the […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybean markets excite while corn settles

By GFM Network News December 6, 2017

CNS Canada — Soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) are finding support from Argentina weather while corn markets remain stuck in sideways trading, according to a Chicago trader. “The corn markets have kind of been left out of the Argentina weather equation with heavy fund selling here and there… and then might […] Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in August 2016. (PM.gc.ca)

Livestock, Reuters

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

By GFM Network News December 4, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — Canada will continue to explore a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, as it weighs its options after the U.S. threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Speaking after a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Trudeau said if “done […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

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China says U.S. soybeans ‘prime target’ over tariffs

Pulse weekly outlook: Alberta pea area tries to hang on

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on profit-taking

ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

Pulse weekly outlook: Industry adapting to new market reality

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy futures jump on weather woes

With sorghum warning shot, Beijing targets Trump’s core farm base

U.S. soy cargo to China traded using blockchain

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybean markets excite while corn settles

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

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