CNS Canada –– Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Monday, as gains in U.S. futures and continued weakness in the Canadian dollar both […] Read more
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Prairie spring wheat bids rise with U.S. futures
U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop from multi-week highs on profit-taking
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Monday for the first time in six sessions and corn dropped after two sessions of gains on profit-taking and as traders […] Read more
U.S. livestock: COOL news weighs on CME live cattle, hogs
Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Monday, partly led by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling against the U.S. in a meat-labeling dispute, said […] Read more
WTO dials back Canada’s COOL retaliation
Canada will be able to take only about a third of the revenge it asked the World Trade Organization to authorize over the United States’ country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law. An […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Beef price retreat pares CME live cattle gains
Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday finished in negative territory for a third day in a row after weak wholesale beef values erased initial […] Read more
For U.S. farmers, ugly soy bids look better all the time
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. farmers booked soybean sales this week as prospects for burgeoning global supplies and weak export demand caused growers to accept deals they’d rejected at similar […] Read more
U.S. grains: Corn, wheat extend gains on technical buying
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and wheat rose on Friday, extending steep gains from the previous session on technical buying while soybeans jumped to a one-month high on large […] Read more
CME to revamp cattle delivery rules before COOL vote
Chicago | Reuters — CME Group plans changes to its rules for live cattle futures, requiring that all cattle delivered against the contract must be born and raised solely in […] Read more
Huge Canadian canola crop beats expectations
CNS Canada — An upward revision to Canada’s 2015-16 canola crop was widely anticipated in the industry, but Statistics Canada’s latest survey results have surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat surges on short-covering on tumbling dollar
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat surged more than two per cent on Thursday, snapping a six-session losing streak as investors covered short positions and the dollar tumbled after the […] Read more
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