Crops
CNS Canada — It’s shaping up to be a typical winter season for fertilizer prices, according to an industry expert, but he cautions plant expansions in the U.S., corn acreage […] Read more
1.
Crops
Fertilizer prices ‘float along’ with eyes on China, corn
U.S. grains: Soybeans down on profit-taking before USDA data
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped two per cent on Thursday, the steepest decline in 2-1/2 months, on profit-taking tied to lower veg oil prices and extended weather […] Read more
China shipping wheat flour to Canada
Chinese state-owned agrifood firm Cofco says it has scored its first-ever international sale of wheat flour — into the Canadian market. Cofco, which said in June it plans to open […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: Soy waits on Argentine weather, inspections
CNS Canada — Soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade hung mostly rangebound during the week ended Wednesday. Attention now shifts to the crop in South America. “People will […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: ‘Toppy’ canola could still go higher
CNS Canada — Canola futures have trended higher in the most active nearby contracts in recent weeks, but still remain underpriced compared to soybeans. From a chart perspective, ICE Futures […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat, corn sag on ample supplies
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat and corn futures fell on Wednesday, pressured by plentiful world feedgrain supplies and profit-taking following light rallies a day earlier, traders said. Soybean futures […] Read more
U.S. patent agency to weigh rival claims on CRISPR
Reuters — The U.S. patent agency on Tuesday will hear arguments in a heated dispute over who was first to invent a revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. Hundreds of […] Read more
StatsCan lentil numbers confirm trade suspicions
CNS Canada — New Statistics Canada data has confirmed what traders already assumed: Lentil supplies aren’t lacking, despite excess moisture this year. Prices for the pulse had been trending lower […] Read more
Focus on quality, not quantity following StatsCan report
CNS Canada –– This year’s Canadian wheat production was up considerably from last year, according to updated estimates from Statistics Canada — but the quality of that crop remains questionable. […] Read more
Winter wonderland piles on saturated eastern Prairies
CNS Canada — While a wave of snow slowly pummels parts of Saskatchewan and much of Manitoba, one soil moisture expert says water is still trickling through the soil into […] Read more