MGEX September 2019 spring wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat sags on abundant global supplies

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soft red winter wheat futures fell to three-month lows on Tuesday while U.S. hard wheat futures hit their lowest levels in a decade, pressured by ample world supplies and strong export competition, analysts said. Corn futures fell to life-of-contract lows on mild crop weather that bolstered […] Read more



CBOT November 2019 soybeans, with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soy set one-week highs on weather concerns

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures touched one-week highs on Thursday as traders worried about the risk of frost damage to this year’s late planted U.S. crops, analysts said. Traders were also covering short positions after recent declines and ahead of the three-day Labour Day weekend. They remain nervous about the potential […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise from multi-month lows

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise from multi-month lows

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures pushed higher on Wednesday because of uncertainty about the size of the autumn harvests and concerns that prices had dropped too low. The gains came after the most actively traded corn contract earlier in the session dropped to its lowest price in more than three months […] Read more



CBOT November 2019 soybeans (candlesticks) and December 2019 corn (line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Soy, corn slide following fresh round of China tariffs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures hit a three-month low and soybeans neared a three-week bottom after China said it would impose additional tariffs on U.S. products including grains and soy, escalating the trade war between the world’s top two economies. On the Chicago Board of Trade, soybean futures posted the biggest declines. China […] Read more


CBOT December 2019 corn with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn edges higher on cool weather

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures inched higher on Thursday, stabilizing from three-month lows set a day earlier, supported by worries that cool weather could slow the maturity of the delayed U.S. crop, analysts said. Wheat rose on technical buying and better-than-expected weekly U.S. export sales. But soybean futures declined, retreating from early strength […] Read more

CBOT November 2019 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on yield uncertainty

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures closed higher on Wednesday on technical buying and uncertainty about U.S. yield prospects, analysts said. Corn and wheat futures also firmed, steadying after the benchmark contracts for both grains dipped to three-month lows. Chicago Board of Trade November soybean futures settled up 4-3/4 cents at $8.73 per bushel […] Read more


The USDA building in Washington, D.C. (Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images)

Farmer’s threat prompts USDA to pull staff from crop tour

Reading Time: 3 minutes Henry County/Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat came over the phone from an angry farmer. Farmers have complained this month that a government crop report did not reflect damage […] Read more

CBOT December 2019 corn with Bollinger bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. grain traders watch yields, demand

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade remain at the behest of geopolitical pressures and questionable crop yields. Terry Reilly, a grains analyst with Futures International in Chicago, said traders are keeping a close eye on the U.S. Pro Farmer tour throughout the eastern Corn Belt region. The tour has […] Read more