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CBOT December 2020 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soy ease as harvest, export prospects weighed

Wheat ends higher after mixed trade

By GFM Network News August 20, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybeans slipped on Thursday after a seven-month peak a day earlier, while corn eased as traders set recent storm damage against generally strong prospects for harvest yields. Wheat ended higher as traders digested competing signals for global supply. The most-active soybean contract on the Chicago Board Of Trade closed down […] Read more

ICE January 2021 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Weather

ICE weekly outlook: Canola steady at midweek

By GFM Network News August 20, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canola contracts at ICE Futures showed strength earlier in the week, due to comparable strength in Chicago soyoil. “Bean oil is keeping it firm,” said Ken Ball of P.I. Financial in Winnipeg — but canola was still lagging behind. “It won’t go up as much as United States markets.” Soybean oil started to […] Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a disaster recovery briefing following last week’s severe windstorm, at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner)

Corn, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Trump visits Iowa as officials warn storm destroyed corn crops

By GFM Network News August 19, 2020

Cedar Rapids | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers and state officials from Iowa said on Tuesday that much of the state’s corn crop will not be harvested following a fierce windstorm last week, as President Donald Trump visited to review the damage. The destruction from the Aug. 10 derecho storm compounded troubles for a U.S. agricultural […] Read more

Green lentils. (Savany/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Lentils, Markets

Pulse weekly: Harvest pressure now hitting lentils

By GFM Network News August 18, 2020

MarketsFarm — As the harvest begins to ramp up across Canada, lentil prices have begun to feel some of the downward pressure. However, to Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada Inc. at Mississauga, Ont. there’s more to the recent declines. “We are feeling pressure from other origins. As United States green lentils are selling much cheaper […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Clearer picture of coming crop means lower prices

By GFM Network News August 13, 2020

MarketsFarm — Prices for feed barley and wheat have been trending lower recently, according to Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. While there has been some harvest pressure, Motz said “it’s more of an equalization of the crops. “We got through the crunch of July not knowing exactly where things were at. As […] Read more

ICE November 2020 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola facing resistance ahead of harvest

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News August 13, 2020

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts backed away from nearby highs during the week ended Wednesday, signalling that the top may be in for the time being as the harvest gets started. “There’s clearly been a shift in canola,” Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg said of the move away from the early August […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. farmers to harvest record-large corn crop, second-largest soy crop, USDA says

Estimates don't include impact of recent Midwest storm

By GFM Network News August 12, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers will reap their biggest corn harvest and their second biggest soybean harvest this fall as good summer weather shepherded the crops through key phases of development, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. The crop outlooks, which also included average yields for both corn and soybeans as the largest […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices steady into harvest

By GFM Network News August 11, 2020

MarketsFarm — The chickpea harvest is underway in some areas of the Prairies, including southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, where pulse crops were planted earlier due to drier spring weather. So far, the chickpea crop has seen co-operative weather conditions. “As we go along with this sunshine and heat, the pulses are coming in very […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Factors that could affect your harvest

Q & A with an expert

By Jade Delaurier August 6, 2020

Q: What can I do to better manage my harvest this year? A: Late frosts, insect concerns, emerging weeds, spring harvest, severe winds and untimely rains were some of the challenges Mother Nature provided us this spring. And the fall will be no different. The perfect harvest doesn’t start in August or September, but instead […] Read more

File photo of an Alberta wheat field. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Crop tour suggests record-large wheat harvest ahead

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 6, 2020

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers are on track to harvest a record-large all-wheat crop, and more canola than last year, due mainly to favourable crop conditions, advisory service FarmLink Marketing Solutions estimated Wednesday. The Winnipeg-based company’s staff toured western Canadian fields during the last two weeks of July. “We expected a big crop and […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures higher on year-end positioning

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall, shrugging off China purchases

Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity

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