Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat, soy and corn futures fell for a second straight day on Tuesday, weighed down by sustained competition abroad and improving U.S. planting weather on the horizon, analysts said.
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U.S. grains: Grain, soy futures keep dipping on weather, govt reports
U.S. grains: CBOT wheat ends lower; US crop rating seen as anchor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade wheat dipped on Monday after a jump earlier in the day, as traders assessed conditions of the U.S. crops.
Net short position in canola continues to shrink
Reading Time: < 1 minute Managed money fund traders continue to chip away at the large net short position in canola futures, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
China’s drive to boost grain production hits bottleneck, state media says
Reading Time: < 1 minute China's drive to boost grain production has entered a bottleneck where it is difficult to increase production further, state media reported on Monday, as Beijing launched a new drive to raise domestic output by 50 million metric tons by 2030.
U.S. grains: Wheat rallies on Black Sea tensions, weather worries
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.
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.
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.
ICE Weekly: More room to the upside for canola
Reading Time: 2 minutes After the May contract on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) fell to its lowest level in two-and-a-half weeks, at C$615.70 per tonne on March 28, it jumped to rise above C$645 on April 2. However, the contract closed C$10 below their daily highs on both April 2 and 3.
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.