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Corn, Crops, Weather

Manitoba corn growers warily eye moisture content

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — While harvest is underway for most farmers across Western Canada, many corn growers are busy eyeing the moisture content in their plants. “I know of guys testing at 32 per cent (moisture content of the kernels). That’s abnormal for this time of year,” said Morgan Cott, an agronomist with the Manitoba Corn […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China to stockpile corn during 2015-16 at lower price

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Beijing | Reuters — The Chinese government will continue its controversial corn stockpile policy during 2015-16 and will start to stock the grain from farmers at a lower price compared with last year, government bodies said in a statement late Friday. Beijing will pay 2,000 yuan (C$414) per tonne to farmers in the northeast, the […] Read more
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Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Exporters fear Brazil agents’ strike could hurt corn exports

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters — A strike by Brazilian federal agricultural agents responsible for approving certificates required for shipments could affect Brazil’s corn exports, the director of the cereal exporters association Anec Sergio Mendes said Friday. Mendes said the strike that started on Thursday was “the worst thing that could happen” to grain exports, though […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

France bolsters ban on genetically modified crops

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — France is to use a new European opt-out scheme to ensure a ban on the cultivation of genetically modified crops in the country remains in place, it said on Thursday. The European Union’s largest grain grower and exporter has asked the European Commission for France to be excluded from some GM […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybeans moving on technical trading

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) are mostly moving on technical trading, profit-taking and good harvest weather. “It’s a technical trade; the range may have moved up a little bit higher than what we had thought,” said Scott Capinegro, senior broker with Highground Trading Group. Soybeans saw […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

USDA probes release of incorrect data that pressured crop prices

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — A U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) unit is reviewing its procedures after posting incorrect crop data online on Wednesday, an error that temporarily pressured grain prices. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) inadvertently issued the wrong data on crop acreage around 5 a.m. CT and posted corrected data four hours later. The agency […] Read more
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Corn, Crops

Your next corn hybrids

Corn is still king in Eastern Canada, and these new hybrids should help guarantee a long reign

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Despite the fact that soybeans actually get planted on more acres, corn is still the driver of row-crop production in the East. At 3.3 million acres in 2015, it’s true that Canada’s farmers planted less corn than the 3.6 million acres they put in the ground in 2013, but it would be a mistake to […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

French court upholds Monsanto poisoning ruling

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Lyon/Paris|Reuters — A French court upheld on Thursday a 2012 ruling in which Monsanto was found liable in the chemical poisoning of a French farmer, who says he suffered neurological problems after inhaling the U.S. company’s Lasso herbicide. The decision by an appeal court in Lyon confirmed the initial judgment, the first such case heard in court […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. farmers unlikely to book sales off the combine this fall

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Cash market sales of corn and soybeans will probably be slow around the U.S. this fall as weakness in the futures market and crumbling basis levels have left prices well below growers’ targets and threatened profitability. But the downturn has not killed farmers’ hopes for a fall rally, even with expectations […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy trade up, but fundamentals bearish

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Despite short-term bullish factors in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybeans, one analyst anticipates prices will be pressured in coming weeks. To start the week, a turnaround in crude oil markets supported prices, said Terry Reilly, senior commodity analyst at Futures International. Rebounds in Malaysian palm oil prices are also […] Read more

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