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China accelerates efforts to boost crop yields, ensure food security

By Reuters January 9, 2025

China will accelerate the breeding of new soybean and corn varieties and prioritize yield improvements for key grains and oil crops, as part of broad efforts to ensure food security, the agriculture ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

U.S. livestock: Chicago grains, soy fall on dollar gains as traders await USDA data

By Renee Hickman, Reuters January 8, 2025

Chicago corn, soy and wheat futures dipped on Wednesday as the dollar jumped on uncertainty over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tariff plans, and as investors squared positions and awaited supply and demand data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Markets

CBOT weekly: Chicago soybeans/corn looking for direction

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 8, 2025

South American weather forecasts, positioning ahead of the Jan. 10 United States Department of Agriculture supply/demand report and uncertainty over trade policies under the incoming Trump administration were all influencing the Chicago grain and oilseed markets during the first days of 2025.

Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago corn surges to six-month high on weaker dollar, Argentina weather

By Renee Hickman, Reuters January 6, 2025

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures Cv1 on Monday surged to a more than six-month high amid growing concern over dry conditions in Argentina, market analysts said.

Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans, corn and wheat futures stumble on farmer sales, weekly dollar gains

By Renee Hickman, Reuters January 3, 2025

Chicago soybean, wheat and corn futures tumbled on Friday as a flurry of farmer sales and a strong dollar weighed on the market, analysts said.

Silos are slotted carefully into place within the skeleton of Parrish and Heimbecker Milling Group’s third mill at the Hamilton port facility.

Crops

Port expansion increases Parrish and Heimbecker mill and terminal capacity

Company adds third flour mill and storage space at Hamilton port

By Diana Martin January 3, 2025

P&H’s expansion, the Port of Hamilton agri-food cluster now represents 31 per cent of its overall cargo and supports 105,000 provincial jobs.

File aerial photo of highway through cropland in Argentina. (Gracieross/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Hot Argentine summer is starting to damage crops, exchanges say

By Reuters January 3, 2025

A hot, dry austral summer is beginning to cause damage to Argentina's 2024/25 soybean and corn crops, the country's two main grains exchanges said on Friday, after abundant spring rains had until recently provided excellent growing conditions.

Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn rise in choppy trading on South American weather concerns

By Renee Hickman, Reuters January 2, 2025

Chicago soybean and corn futures were higher in see-saw trading on the first trading day of 2025, supported by ongoing concerns related to dry weather in South America, especially Argentina, a leading producer of both commodities.

Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soy, grain futures settle up, but fall for the year

By Renee Hickman, Reuters December 31, 2024

Chicago soybean, corn and wheat futures rallied on Tuesday on short-covering and concerns over weather conditions in South America and Russia, market analysts said.

Markets

U.S. grains: Corn falls on profit-taking after reaching 6-month high

By Renee Hickman, Reuters December 30, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures turned lower on profit-taking after the benchmark contract Cv1 hit a six-month high in choppy trade ahead of the year's end, market analysts said.