CBOT March 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-month low on USDA projections

Corn, soybean futures rise

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures slumped to a one-month low on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast larger-than-expected global production and stocks in a monthly report that reinforced a recent spate of bearish news. Corn and soybean futures tracked wheat lower, but promptly rebounded from their lows on speculative and technical […] Read more

CBOT March 2022 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

CBOT weekly outlook: No significant revisions in new U.S. WASDE report

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) held its world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) mostly steady for the month of December — which may result in a lack of price movement on the markets. In its WASDE report released Thursday, USDA projects 598 million bushels of ending domestic wheat stocks for the […] Read more


Gibberella ear rot in corn in 2018 helped generate more awareness of diseases and fungicide use in corn.

What’s up with fungicide resistance?

Resistance is hardly top of mind for most growers, but there are signs it should be climbing the ladder

Reading Time: 6 minutes Comparing resistance in fungicides to herbicides is like listening for a whisper above the noise of a pressure washer, or you could say the threat of disease resistance in major crops is advancing at a creep, not a run, as it is in weeds. Increasingly, though, that’s a challenge facing agronomists, advisors and those in […] Read more

CBOT March 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat futures drop on weather view

CBOT corn, soybean futures rise

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade winter wheat futures fell 1.7 per cent on Wednesday as forecasts for mild temperatures and some rain in key growing areas raised hopes that the crop will be in good condition before it heads into dormancy, traders said. “U.S. weather for wheat looks pretty good,” said Terry […] Read more


CBOT January 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans drop

Corn, wheat up off early weakness

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Tuesday, pressured by signs of rising competition on the export market that could lead to a domestic supply glut, traders said. Forecasts for improving crop weather in Brazil and Argentina during January also weighed on the market. Corn and wheat futures ended firm after spending much […] Read more

CBOT March 2022 corn (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans fall in risk-off trade

Chicago winter wheat firms

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Monday, with concerns about the spread of Omicron coronavirus variant causing investors to take some risk out of the market, traders said. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released on Friday afternoon that showed large speculators cut their net longs in both commodities […] Read more


CBOT March 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat slide continues in volatile week

Soybeans rise, corn up on support from crude oil prices

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures slid once again on Friday, after a volatile week in which prices plunged on investor fears about the economic impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, traders said. Wheat prices had steadied early in the day’s session but then started falling again on news that U.S. employment growth […] Read more

CBOT March 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as global demand offsets virus worries

USDA confirms China buys U.S. soybeans

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. and European wheat futures jumped on Thursday as a series of import tenders and fears of rain damage to Australia’s harvest overshadowed concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus variant. Soybean and corn futures also advanced at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Global demand for wheat put renewed […] Read more


CBOT January 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20- and 50-day moving averages (yellow and dark green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Grain futures regain ground as COVID jitters ease

Corn, soy firm after also hitting near three-week lows with wheat

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures turned higher Wednesday, recouping some of their steep losses from the previous session, as investor concerns that the Omicron coronavirus variant would derail the global economy began to ease. Corn and soybeans also regained ground on end-user buying, traders said, following hopes of export buyers looking for deals […] Read more

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20- and 50- day moving averages (yellow and dark green lines). (Barchart)

ICE weekly outlook: Days of $1,000 canola done, for now

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — There very likely won’t be any resurgence in canola that would see old-crop futures exceed $1,000 per tonne in the near future, according to analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. In recent days, canola has been taking a series of hard hits, which have pulled the January and March contracts under […] Read more