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The average of the big bank projections was for the S&P 500 to gain 1.9 per cent, but as of late November the S&P 500 was up 25.5 per cent.

Columns, Global markets, Home Quarter Investing

Analysts’ target prices again miss the mark

Investing for Fun and Profit: I plan to continue to ignore those target prices when making decisions

By Herman VanGenderen January 29, 2025

Approximately a year ago a column titled “The value of target prices” studied analyst price targets on every TSX index stock with how the stock actually performed over the next year. Analyst target prices had been conveniently amalgamated in a Globe and Mail article. While I had never used target prices to make purchase or […] Read more

Crush plants on the Prairies are going flat out these days, including the four in Alberta at Lloydminster (ADM), Fort Saskatchewan (Bunge), Camrose (Cargill) and Lethbridge (Richardson). Photo: iStock

Canola, Markets, News

U.S. threatening Canada’s canola oil industry

Chinese used cooking oil another threat

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 27, 2025

Canada's canola oil industry is facing two threats from the United States, said Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Canadian Oilseed Processors Association.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Feds’ conditions not near enough to alleviate concerns

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2025

The National Farmers Union denounced the approval of the Bunge-Viterra merger in a statement released on Jan. 17. The NFU said the multi-billion dollar deal “effectively ends competition in Canada’s agricultural commodity sector,” as it creates the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader, and it will control 40 per cent of the Canadian grain market.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Corn, Reuters, Soybeans, Winter Wheat

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures retreat on profit-taking

By Julie Ingwersen, Reuters January 16, 2025

U.S. soybean futures fell about two per cent on Thursday as forecasts for much-needed rains in dry areas of Argentina's crop belt and expectations of a massive Brazilian soy harvest sparked a round of profit-taking, analysts said.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns, Markets

Lots of unknowns keep cattle market interesting

The Markets: Several trends have a floor under the cattle feeder complex, for now

By Jerry Klassen January 16, 2025

During the last week of November, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis at $243-$244 per hundredweight, f.o.b. feedlot in southern Alberta. The fed market has been relatively flat over the past month. The Canadian slaughter has been running below year-ago levels but the year-over-year increase in fed cattle exports has kept […] Read more

Cereals, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Cash prices step back

Stronger greenback weakens U.S. wheat

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 10, 2025

Western Canadian cash prices for spring wheat and amber durum were lower during the week ended Jan. 9.

Barley, Cereals, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grains Weekly: Demand lull to keep prices lower for now

Increases unlikely until late February

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 9, 2025

As January began, feed grain prices on the Canadian Prairies remained lower and are likely to stay that way until spring, commented broker Evan Peterson of JGL Commodities in Saskatoon.

Cereals, Markets, News, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Second spring wheat futures market on the horizon

Making the smallest contract even smaller - analyst

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 9, 2025

The CME Group has plans to launch a new Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options market in the second quarter of 2025, rivalling the Minneapolis hard red spring wheat contracts now traded through the MIAX platform.

“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, Markets, Soybeans

ICE Weekly: No news means no canola price movement

By Adam Peleshaty January 8, 2025

A lack of significant news has prevented canola prices at the Intercontinental Exchange to break out of its recent trading range to start 2025.

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

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

GFM Network News

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

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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Analysts’ target prices again miss the mark

U.S. threatening Canada’s canola oil industry

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures retreat on profit-taking

Lots of unknowns keep cattle market interesting

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Cash prices step back

Feed Grains Weekly: Demand lull to keep prices lower for now

Second spring wheat futures market on the horizon

ICE Weekly: No news means no canola price movement

StatCan issues crush, delivery reports

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