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ICE weekly outlook: Canola looking overpriced

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 23, 2015

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower in sympathy with CBOT soybeans during the week ended Wednesday, and could have more room to the downside as the Canadian oilseed remains overpriced compared to its U.S. counterpart. The canola premium compared to soybeans is the same now as earlier in the summer, when […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybeans feeling harvest pressure

By Dave Sims September 23, 2015

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybean futures finished lower for the week ended Wednesday as the advancing harvest pressured already-low prices. The front-month soybean contract dropped to some of its lowest levels in more than six years. The rising strength of the U.S. dollar has made life difficult for U.S. exporters […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat nears one-month high on global weather worries

By Tom Polansek September 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures neared a one-month high on Wednesday on short-covering and poor weather in Australia and the Black Sea region that worried traders who have recently been focused on large global supplies. Corn and soybean futures ended little changed. Propelling wheat prices higher was dry weather that is threatening the […] Read more

Initial symptoms of tar spot are brownish lesions on leaves of affected corn plants. Black spore-producing spots appear later. (Kiersten Wise photo courtesy Purdue University Botany and Plant Pathology)

Corn, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Storm suspected of carrying new corn disease into U.S.

By Tom Polansek September 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — A tropical storm could have carried the corn disease tar spot into the heart of the U.S. farm belt for the first time, as winds and rain blew in from Latin America, researchers told Reuters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed cases of tar spot in at least four locations […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Syria needs more wheat, despite healthy harvest

By maha-el-dahan September 23, 2015

Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Syrian farmers enduring a fifth year of civil war have sold less wheat to the state than last year despite a better harvest and higher offer price, leaving a large shortfall to be made up with imports complicated by western sanctions. President Bashar al-Assad’s government has lost control over many […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Peanut company CEO sentenced for salmonella outbreak

By Rich McKay September 22, 2015

Albany, Ga.| Reuters –– The former owner of Peanut Corporation of America was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak linked to nine deaths. In a rare case of criminal prosecution linked to food contamination, Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corporation of […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Spring Wheat

Iran cancels import duties on wheat, barley

By Reuters September 22, 2015

Dubai/Moscow | Reuters — Iran has canceled import duties it imposed on wheat and barley in July, according to an official document seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The document said the import duties ended on Sept. 6 for wheat and on Aug. 22 for barley. It gave no reason for the cancellation. The Iranian government […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy futures fall as harvest pace picks up

By Mark Weinraub September 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Tuesday, under pressure from the expanding harvest around the U.S. Midwest as well as some profit-taking after rallying on Monday, traders said. Wheat futures also fell, but losses were kept in check as bargain buyers stepped into the market when prices hit their session […] Read more

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built in Norway in 2008, is the world’s largest secure seed storage site. (Matthias Heyde photo courtesy Government of Norway via Flickr)

Barley, Cereals, Crops, Forages, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday seed vault

By alister-doyle September 21, 2015

Oslo | Reuters –– Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said Monday. The seeds, including samples of wheat, barley and grasses suited to dry regions, have been requested by researchers elsewhere in the Middle East to […] Read more

Winnipeg-based Legumex Walker’s pulse plants are Scoular’s first major play in the Prairie crops sector. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Grain handler Scoular on hunt for more Canadian buys

By Rod Nickel September 21, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — U.S. crop handler The Scoular Co. is looking to acquire stakes in grain and oilseeds facilities in Western Canada, fresh off agreeing to its first major purchase in the crop-growing belt, the private company’s chief operating officer said Monday. Scoular last week agreed to pay $94 million for the special crops […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola looking overpriced

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybeans feeling harvest pressure

U.S. grains: Wheat nears one-month high on global weather worries

Storm suspected of carrying new corn disease into U.S.

Syria needs more wheat, despite healthy harvest

Peanut company CEO sentenced for salmonella outbreak

Iran cancels import duties on wheat, barley

U.S. grains: Soy futures fall as harvest pace picks up

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday seed vault

Grain handler Scoular on hunt for more Canadian buys

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