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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans likely headed down, corn sideways

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade plunged on Tuesday as fresh estimates hit the market. Near-term, soybeans aren’t expected to improve much, one U.S. analyst said, though a lack of farmer selling could bring some upside to corn. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday released its […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

World corn stocks hit record high on cut in China use: USDA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture unexpectedly revised its global coarse grain supply estimate on Tuesday, saying Chinese feed millers were using feeds other than corn at a higher rate than previously thought over the past three years. Along with an increase in USDA’s 2015 U.S. corn production forecast and cuts to […] Read more
“There are risks, but there are risks with growing any type of crop,” says Manitoba’s Pam de Rocquigny. 
“It’s up to each individual producer.”
Corn, Crops

Corn crops point their compass north

What do climate change and western corn share? “Plenty,” says Jeff Rubin

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff Rubin is former chief economist for CIBC World Markets, now a bestselling author, and he believes a warmer climate will result in a longer growing season and more heat units on the Canadian Prairies. This, he suggests, could turn the region into the new North American Corn Belt as production inevitably creeps northward. “The […] Read more
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Corn, Crops

Large Brazilian corn exports to continue

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Commodity News Service Canada – Brazil could be on pace to export as much as 31 million to 34 million tonnes of corn by the end of the 2015/16 marketing year, according to Pedro Dejneka, the executive director of AgResource’s Latin America division, speaking at the Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg on November 3. […] Read more
Barley, Cereals, Corn, Markets

Feed Grains: IGC raises world grain production estimate

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Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg – Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world feed grains markets on Thursday, October 29. –  CBOT corn futures were higher on Thursday, with the December contract up four cents, at US$3.8000 per bushel, as solid weekly export demand provided some support. –  The International Grains Council […] Read more
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Corn, Guide Business

A year for corn farmers to manage risk

It’s going to take skill to navigate your way to healthy prices in a year when volatile currency markets will make our price swings even wilder

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Corn farmers continue to be bedevilled by low corn futures prices. In Ontario just over a year ago, for instance, the December 2015 corn futures price on August 4, 2014 closed at $4.15 per bushel. This year on August 5, the December 2015 corn futures price closed at $3.78. In the history of agriculture, this […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Reuters

Monsanto clears USDA regulatory hurdle for new GM corn

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday signed off on a new genetically modified type of corn developed by Monsanto after a review concluded it posed no significant threat to agricultural crops, other plants or the environment. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it would deregulate Monsanto’s MON […] Read more
Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The association for Ontario corn and soybean growers is “evaluating several options” after its request for a stay of the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments was rejected. The Ontario Superior Court denied the request from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) for a stay and interpretation on the neonic regulations, which became law in […] Read more
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Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Weather

Man. corn harvest progresses rapidly despite moisture issues

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Manitoba’s corn harvest is nearly finished and may be bringing farmers above-average yields, according to a provincial crop specialist — though some producers have had to make tough decisions when it comes to drydown. The province’s latest crop report for the week ended Oct. 13 pegged grain corn’s harvest progress at 45 […] Read more

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