Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. wheat futures spiked to a one-month high on Friday as the market was unsettled by spring weather risks in the northern hemisphere and renewed tensions in the Black Sea.
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U.S. grains: Wheat rallies on Black Sea tensions, weather worries
Calls to eliminate the carbon tax grow after the April 1 increase
Reading Time: 2 minutes Opposition to the federal price on pollution ramped up last week as several premiers called for a meeting with the prime minister to discuss the issue.
U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on weak US export sales, lower soyoil prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Soybeans dropped on Thursday following lower-than-expected weekly export sales data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), seasonally rising supplies from the South American harvest and falling soyoil prices.
Feed Grain Weekly: ‘A good time to secure pricing’
Reading Time: 2 minutes There has been some movement in feed grain prices across the Canadian Prairies during the week ended Apr. 3, particularly in Alberta. Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton chalked that up to factors such as road bans and the approach of spring seeding. She also noted a change in corn.
U.S. grains: Technical buying lifts grains, soy as US Midwest planting season nears
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures rose on Wednesday on technical buying and short covering that lifted prices from Tuesday's one-month lows as traders assessed Midwestern weather conditions before the spring planting season.
Spring wheat futures find support, soybeans/corn rangebound
Reading Time: 2 minutes After hitting their softest levels in three years, the Minneapolis spring wheat market uncovered some support on April 3, although all the spring-seeded U.S. crops could hold rangebound through the planting season.
U.S. grains: Corn down as Midwest outlook seen boosting spring planting
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures dropped on Tuesday on forecasts for good spring planting weather, easing concerns about a lower-than-expected acreage outlook from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week.
U.S. grains: Corn sinks on big supplies; wheat down on good winter crop outlook
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. grain futures fell on Monday as pressure from ample supplies partly unraveled steep gains late last week following a U.S. Department of Agriculture report that projected lower-than-expected U.S. corn plantings.
U.S. grains: Corn rallies most since July on lower US plantings outlook
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade corn futures posted their biggest one-day rally since July after the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday reported grain stocks and intended plantings below trade estimates.
CBOT Weekly: Markets react to USDA reports
Reading Time: 2 minutes Projected corn acres at the lower end of trade expectations was the most notable news after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Stocks reports on March 28.