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Emerging corn plants in Canada. (Sophie-Caron/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn hits one-week high as USDA cuts yield more than expected

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures climbed to a one-week high on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a bigger-than-expected cut to its yield estimate due to unprecedented planting delays this spring. USDA, in a monthly report, slashed its corn yield projection by 10 bushels an acre from May, or 5.7 per […] Read more
(Jack Dykinga photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

USDA investigates unapproved GMO wheat in Washington state

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state. There was no evidence the wheat had entered the food supply, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said in a statement on Friday. The wheat […] Read more
CBOT July 2019 corn with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise as report shows rain slows plantings

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn futures rose on Tuesday to revisit last week’s three-year highs after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said U.S. planting was well behind the average pace for this time of year following repeated rainfall. Soybeans rose too as rain also slowed U.S. sowings, according to the […] Read more
Kansas City July 2019 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat rallies on weather

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rallied on Monday on concerns about harvest risks as more heavy rain was forecast in some U.S. grain belts and warm, dry weather was expected in top wheat exporter Russia. Meanwhile, corn and soybean futures traded choppily as the markets digested a threat of U.S. tariffs against Mexico, […] Read more
CME August 2019 feeder cattle, with CBOT July 2019 corn (orange line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Futures fall as corn rally boosts feeding costs

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle and hog futures closed mostly lower on Thursday, with a rally in the corn market pressuring livestock contracts, traders said. “It had a lot to do with corn going up,” said Doug Houghton, an analyst with Brock Associates Inc. “Feed costs are higher.” Feeder cattle futures notched […] Read more
CBOT July 2019 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy futures extend rally

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose 1.6 per cent on Wednesday, hitting their highest since mid-April on support from concerns that planting delays in the U.S. Midwest will lead to a sharp cutback in acreage as well as harvest yields, traders said. The jump followed a U.S. Agriculture Department report after the market […] Read more
CBOT July 2019 corn with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn hits three-year high as planting delays prolonged

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures surged 4.1 per cent to their highest levels in nearly three years on Tuesday, supported by planting delays across key growing areas of the U.S. Midwest following heavy rains, traders said. The adverse weather in the Midwest and Plains also fuelled rallies in the soybean and wheat markets […] Read more
The yield bump from the derived lines has to be the result of backcrossing with Glycine tomentella, says Dr. Randall Nelson from the University of Illinois.
Crops, Soybeans

A new yield genetics

A distant soybean relative may open the door to even higher yields

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Reading Time: 4 minutes For years, there’s been a concern that soybean breeding somehow lags behind that of corn, and that for some reason soybean breeders haven’t been working as hard to raise their yields as corn breeders. It’s a debate that arises primarily from comparisons of trend-line yields in corn versus soybeans in the past 30 years. And […] Read more

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