Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean futures were mixed at Friday’s close at the end of a see-saw week during which Chinese purchases of U.S. supplies pushed prices to a 17-month high before doubts about whether China would sustain such buying punctured the rally.
U.S. grains: Soybeans mixed on doubts over Chinese demand
Funds held large net short in canola before U.S. shutdown
Reading Time: < 1 minute Speculative fund traders were adding to a recently-established net short position in canola at the end of September, said the first Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since the end of the U.S. federal government shutdown.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Most Western Canadian bids higher
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian wheat prices were higher on Oct. 16, 2025 compared to the past week.
Fund traders flip to net short in canola futures
Reading Time: < 1 minute Speculative fund traders have moved to a net short position in canola futures for the first time in five months, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
ICE Weekly: Soyoil influencing canola prices
Up-and-down trade for oilseed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago soyoil prices seem to be the main influencer of canola's price movement during the week ended Aug. 27, 2025.
ICE Weekly: Trade talks, weather lifting canola prices
Multiple factors driving canola’s rally
Reading Time: 2 minutes Trade discussions between Canada and the United States as well as dry weather have driven canola’s rally on the Intercontinental Exchange during the week ended July 2, 2025.
Speculators bail out of canola long positions
Tariff uncertainty tied to liquidation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fund traders were busy liquidating long positions and putting on new bearish bets in canola as tariff uncertainty from both China and the United States weighed on the futures in early March.
ICE Weekly: No news means no canola price movement
Reading Time: 2 minutes A lack of significant news has prevented canola prices at the Intercontinental Exchange to break out of its recent trading range to start 2025.
Why have cocoa futures hit record highs this year?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Futures markets have seen a record-breaking run in cocoa prices in 2024, a surge exacerbated by the hedge funds that provide much of their liquidity heading for the exit.
Taking on the market
Options, futures or forward contracts? Two farmers search for sustainable income
Reading Time: 9 minutes Options, futures or forward contracts? Two farmers search for sustainable income Dennis Pashovitz calls it his ’67 Cougar moment. It was the late 1990s and the grain farmer at Arelee, an hour west of Saskatoon, needed cash to open a trading account. The only way to learn about marketing, he was convinced, was to play […] Read more
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