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Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell for the fourth consecutive session on Wednesday, dragged down by favourable weather across the U.S. Midwest and sluggish export demand, analysts said.
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CBOT Weekly: Projections, tensions pressure prices
Grain prices approaching seasonal lows
Projections of high yields and ongoing political tensions pressured grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended July 30, 2025.
ICE canola weekly outlook: Tight carryout supportive
New crop production uncertain
ICE Futures canola contracts were trading within a sideways range heading into the end of the 2024/25 (Aug/Jul) marketing year, with expectations for a tight old crop carryout providing support amid uncertainty over new crop production.
Changes to Manitoba’s spring wheat: crop report
Canola varies widely
Crops in Manitoba continued to hold up quite well, but the provincial agriculture department reported some variation in the spring wheat over the week ended July 29.
Bangladesh to buy 220,000 tons of U.S. wheat to cool tariff tension
Bangladesh's government has approved the purchase of about 220,000 metric tons of wheat from the United States as part of efforts to cool trade tensions and reduce steep import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration, a Dhaka official said on Wednesday.
Strong canola exports expected to tighten supply
Brisk sales will likely send ending stocks below the one million tonne mark, the lowest level since 2012-13
Canola exports will end up the third strongest in the past 10 years, according to recent Canadian Grain Commission weekly export data.
Increasing farmland prices blamed on investors
Firm estimates nine to 15 percent of farmland transactions involve ‘non-farming buyers’; an investor disagrees
a major tax and financial services firm says investors are driving up the value of farmland, preventing young farmers from entering the business. Robert Andjelic said that is bullshit.
Pulse Weekly: Most lentil prices lower as focus changes to new crop
Lentil prices on the Canadian Prairies eased back during the week ended July 28, said Levon Sargsyan, broker with Johnston’s Grain. Sargsyan noted that’s due to the recent rains that brought relief to some of the dry areas of the region.
U.S. spring wheat crop looks good but not stellar
Recent crop tour estimates yields will be down slightly from last year’s bin-busting harvest, but not by much
The U.S. spring wheat crop will not be a bin-buster like last year, according to a crop tour.
U.S. livestock: Cattle climb on low inventory, anticipated tariffs
Chicago cattle futures continued to climb, Tuesday, on anticipated tariffs on Brazilian beef and low herd numbers.
