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CBOT July 2022 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: ‘Confluence of events’ keeps corn, soy supported

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Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade hit fresh contract highs on Wednesday, while soybeans also remain well supported with a number of factors likely to keep the grains and oilseeds underpinned going forward. “It’s never just one thing, a confluence of events have taken us up,” said Sean Lusk of Walsh […] Read more
CBOT July 2022 soyoil (candlesticks, right column) with July 2022 soybeans (yellow line, left column). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soyoil futures rally to record high

Corn hits highest since August 2012

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soyoil futures surged to a record high on Wednesday after Indonesia broadened its export ban on raw materials for cooking oil to fight food inflation, traders said. “The move dramatically tightens an already tight global supply of edible oils that saw global prices surge when the Russian invasion of Ukraine […] Read more
Yuri, a Ukrainian farmer, wears his body armour while preparing to work in a field on April 26, 2022 in the country’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)
Crops, Reuters

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Zaporizhzhia | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia, are now wearing body armour to plough their fields. A week after the war started, grad rockets — bombs fired via a truck-mounted multiple-launch system — began falling right next door to the […] Read more
CBOT July 2022 corn (candlesticks) with 20- and 100-day moving averages (yellow and dark green lines) and December 2022 corn (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: CBOT corn, wheat up on concerns about U.S. crops

Chicago soybean futures fall

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat and corn futures rose on Tuesday, supported by concerns that adverse weather in key production areas would limit the size of harvests this year, traders said. Soybean futures eased as Brazil’s Anec raised its outlook for the country’s export forecast for the oilseed. Losses were kept in check by […] Read more
File photo of lentils being moved into bins in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Lentils, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil acres likely up in 2022

Other pulses likely down, though

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada released its first survey-based crop acreage estimates of 2022 on Tuesday, reporting that while more lentil acres may be planted this spring, other pulses are expected to have their seeded area shrink. The national data agency projected 4.49 million acres of lentils will be planted in Canada this year, a 4.2 […] Read more
File photo of a small flock of tundra swans taking off from a grain field in early spring. (WWing/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock, Machinery, Poultry/Eggs

Spring planting work can kick up avian flu, feather sector warns

Three more poultry outbreaks confirmed in Canada so far this week

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Spring planting work could soon start to bring unintended gifts left by wild birds from fields into farmyards, Ontario’s poultry and egg sectors warn, as more cases of avian flu are confirmed at poultry farms across the country. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday reported three additional outbreaks of H5 avian influenza in commercial […] Read more
CBOT July 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb on export optimism

Chicago wheat eases on profit-taking

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures rose on Wednesday, with the July contract hitting a two-month high on optimism about export demand for U.S. supplies of the oilseed, analysts said. Corn followed soybeans higher, with front contracts leading the way up in both markets. But wheat futures fell on profit-taking, easing a day after […] Read more
CBOT July 2022 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn pulls back after reaching decade high

Wheat also gives up gains amid profit-taking, traders say

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended lower on Tuesday, consolidating below a decade high reached earlier, as traders assessed risks to global supply from the war in Ukraine and a slow start to planting in the U.S. Wheat futures also weakened, with profit-taking pressuring the markets, traders said. The July […] Read more
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Crops, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: No worries about delayed planting in Manitoba

'Farmers can get stuff in pretty quick'

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Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Despite an influx of snow across southern Manitoba, with more precipitation in the forecast for this week, a provincial pulse specialist isn’t too concerned about the potential for late planting of pulse crops. “The moisture is welcome, but it’s not the weather we would like to see at this time of the year. […] Read more

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