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Crops, Marketing

A new tool to market grain

Here’s a new app and website service that promises more efficient marketing

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Reading Time: 6 minutes In the course of a growing season, farmers face even greater challenges to be as efficient as possible. Time is a rare commodity and rapidly consumed by planting, managing, spraying and harvesting crops, tending to animals, making repairs and more. Any process or device that promises to save time gets a close look. But, of […] Read more
CBOT May 2021 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 40- and 50-day moving averages (gold, green and black lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise

Wheat eases, corn mixed, traders focused on weather

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Friday, gaining ground on corn contracts as the market tried to entice farmers to boost acreage of the oilseed despite the yellow grain’s rally to its highest in nearly eight years earlier this week. “The last two weeks all the talk has been about the corn […] Read more
CBOT May 2021 corn with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn futures retreat from peak above $6

Wheat, soybean futures rise

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures closed mixed on Thursday, with the most-active contract easing on pressure from commercial hedging after spiking above US$6 a bushel for the first time since June 2013 during overnight trading. But concerns about seeding delays due to cold weather in the U.S. Midwest lifted new-crop corn contracts. Weather […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Tight old-crop supplies keep soy, corn strong

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Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade posted solid gains during the week ended Wednesday, with the widening inverted spread between old-crop contracts and new-crop months a feature. “Commercials are buying any dips they can,” Sean Lusk of Walsh Trading said of the market. With the nearby months trading at […] Read more
Kansas City May 2021 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange, green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Futures rally on weather concerns

Wheat futures book biggest increases

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, corn and soybean futures rallied on Wednesday, supported by concerns that a cold snap in the U.S. Midwest and Plains could hamper crop development, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade corn gained 2.4 per cent to hit its highest since June 2013. Wheat futures posted the biggest increases, with […] Read more
CBOT May 2021 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy, corn rise as funds step in after two losing sessions

Wheat up on 'water deficit' concerns

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures rose on Tuesday, bouncing back from two days of declines on bargain buying by investment funds and concerns about tight supplies of both commodities, traders said. Wheat futures also firmed, with concerns about dry soils limiting U.S. and European production underpinning prices. Corn and soybean futures […] Read more
Always adjusting, always learning
Crops

Always adjusting, always learning

Agriculture’s diversity demands accepting change and making it work to your advantage

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In agriculture, diversification thrives when it’s encouraged and nurtured. It not only helps spread risk, it can open the door to new directions and to new ventures that supplement the conventional or create new opportunities. Adam Garniss understands this about as well as anyone. A grower and entrepreneur, he oversees a diversified operation on the […] Read more
CBOT May 2021 soybeans (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2) and CBOT July 2021 soyoil (dark green line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybean futures drop as soyoil crumbles

Corn, wheat futures also weak

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell 1.5 per cent on Monday, led lower by the soyoil market’s decline to its lowest in nearly six weeks on bearish data about palm oil supplies, traders said. “The bean oil led the beans up and it looks like they are going to lead them down,” said […] Read more
Soybean fields are inspected in a University of Wisconsin research trial on dicamba drift at Arlington, Wisc. on Aug. 2, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)
Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Companies' GM soybeans jockey for market share

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Bayer is launching a new genetically modified soybean in the United States, striking back against rival Corteva in a bid to retain its dominant position supplying seeds to the $40 billion U.S. soy industry. Billions of dollars are on the table for companies producing a growing variety of seeds for soybeans, […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Focus to shift after USDA’s largely stand-pat WASDE report

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — There was little change in U.S. markets shortly after the release of the latest supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). But that scenario could change for wheat markets, said Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. at McHenry, Ill. “We’ve got to pay attention to how the wheat markets […] Read more

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