Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Buyers looking to Canada for high-quality wheat to make bread as drought roils output in the northern U.S. may be thwarted, as dry weather has also hit crops there. Wheat plants with the high protein content needed to bake bread have shrivelled in the U.S., one of the world’s top exporters, […] Read more
Global buyers of quality wheat face disappointment in Canada
U.S. grains: Wheat hits two-week low on spreading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a roughly two-week low on Monday while MGEX spring wheat gained one per cent in wheat spreading as dry conditions stressed the spring wheat crop in the northern U.S. Plains, traders said. Investors were selling most-active CBOT wheat and buying MGEX […] Read more
U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn firm on weather view
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures rallied 1.4 per cent on Friday on hotter and drier forecasts for important growing areas of the U.S. Midwest, traders said. Concerns about the forecast also supported corn futures but the market closed off session highs as profit-taking weighed on prices after their run-up to […] Read more
U.S. grains; Wheat, corn, soy climb; spring wheat tops US$8
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, soybean and corn futures rose in an abbreviated session ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, buoyed by worries that hot and dry weather in the northern Plains spring wheat belt could spread into the western Midwest, analysts said on Friday. Spring wheat futures on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange […] Read more
U.S. grains: Chicago wheat above $5 on U.S., Canadian concerns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed above US$5 a bushel on Friday for the first time in a year, buoyed by diminishing outlooks for spring wheat crops in both the U.S. and Canada, analysts said. CBOT soybean futures rose about three per cent and corn futures also followed the firming […] Read more
U.S. grains: Spring wheat sets three-year top on weather woes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. spring wheat futures charged to a three-year high on Thursday, fueled by fears that continued dry conditions in the northern U.S. Plains would cut supply of high-protein milling wheat. The surge in spring wheat futures on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) also lifted Chicago Board of Trade wheat to a […] Read more
U.S. Plains drought highlights spring wheat supply crunch
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Drought conditions in the northern U.S. Plains that have propelled spring wheat prices to a three-year high worsened in the past week and there are forecasts for more hot and dry weather that could crimp the harvest. As the world struggles with a glut of grain that has filled inventories to […] Read more
U.S. grains: Spring wheat futures top US$7 on weather worries
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. spring wheat futures surged 3.4 percent on Wednesday, topping US$7 a bushel for the first time in nearly three years on worries that stressful weather will curb production of the high-quality milling wheat, analysts said. The jump in Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) spring wheat lifted Chicago Board of Trade wheat […] Read more
U.S. grains: Spring wheat near three-year high on dry weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. spring wheat futures hit their highest level in nearly three years on Tuesday on forecasts for stressful weather in the northern Plains, analysts said. Corn and soybean futures also climbed after a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report said the condition of all three U.S. crops was worse than analysts […] Read more
U.S. grains: CBOT wheat falls on profit-taking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat prices fell about two per cent on Monday, extending their slide to four sessions on profit-taking after a run-up to one-year highs last week, analysts said. Corn and soybeans rose in a light recovery bounce from multimonth lows set last week, and Minneapolis Grain Exchange spring […] Read more
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