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CBOT July 2019 corn (candlesticks) with July 2019 soybeans (line) for comparison. (Barchart)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather, trade talks strong influences

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Forecasts calling for more precipitation in the U.S. and trade talks with China are having powerful effects on prices at the Chicago Board of Trade this week from where one analyst sits. Steve Georgy of Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. said the forecast has been driving soybean prices to new contract lows. Already […] Read more
(ADM.com)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Winter Wheat

ADM’s move to spin off ethanol assets speaks to industry’s woes

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Reading Time: 2 minutes New York/Chicago | Reuters — Biofuels pioneer Archer Daniels Midland took another step toward abandoning its pure-play ethanol assets on Friday, the latest sign of the industry’s struggles with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars, thin margins, and overproduction. U.S. law requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline but domestic demand for the biofuel added […] Read more
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Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets

WTO finds for U.S. on crop tariff dispute with China

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled largely in favour of the United States in a trade dispute regarding China’s application of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn and rice. The ruling, issued by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), stated China did not apply the TRQs on imports of wheat, rice […] Read more
CBOT July 2019 corn (candlesticks), with July 2019 soybeans (green line). (Barchart)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Bear market aches for bull news

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm –– The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is currently a bear-market, according to broker Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodity Brokers. “It’s like the markets are saying ‘Show me something, we’ll take anything,’ but the bears are winning,” he said, noting there has been almost no news to drive the market in a bullish manner. […] Read more
(Ablokhin/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets brace for weather, trade war

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — With the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report in the rearview mirror, the Chicago Board of Trade is trading largely on weather forecasts and flood reports. Markets did react, however, when the WASDE report dropped on Tuesday. “We did see some short covering in the market yesterday […] Read more
The AltEn ethanol plant at Mead, Neb. on March 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

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Reading Time: 3 minutes New York | Reuters — The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. The historic March floods have dealt a series of blows to large swaths of an ethanol industry that […] Read more
The corn sector has fallen behind in dealing with ear rot diseases at that same time those outbreaks have worsened.
Corn, Crops

2018 delivered many DON lessons for corn

Last fall’s weather was partly to blame, but so too were the lack of management options and strategies

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Reading Time: 6 minutes There can be little doubt that 2018 will go down in the record books as the worst year in Ontario for dealing with ear mould in corn and contamination by deoxynivalenol (DON). Wet weather through silking and then again in much of October and November challenged growers getting into their fields for timely harvesting of […] Read more
CBOT May 2019 corn (candlesticks) compared with May 2019 soybeans (green line). (Barchart)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather, flooding are main focus

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — This spring’s weather and flooding in the United States have become the main focus for traders at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), said an analyst. “What kind of planting conditions, how much rain, how much flooding, and how cold things are,” listed Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. at McHenry, Ill. The […] Read more
The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets at mercy of weather

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Traders are bracing for more inclement weather to hit the U.S. Midwest, which in turn could rock commodities. Springtime floods and adverse weather have impacted the majority of the U.S. Plains and Midwest, and those regions expect another snow system before the end of March. Flooding may delay planting dates, causing farmers to […] Read more

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