2017 Plant Preview: Weather Favors Early Planting in Upper Midwest
Category: Weather
(AgWeb) - If weather stays on track, farmers in the north can expect to get planting started earlier, which... Full Story
Category: Weather
(AgWeb) - If weather stays on track, farmers in the north can expect to get planting started earlier, which... Full Story
Category: Grains, Oilseeds, Weather
(Reuters) - The latest outlook from the U.S. government predicts warmer-than-average weather that could have a game-changing impact when the U.S. corn and soybean planting campaign gets underway in a few weeks. The U.S. Climate Prediction Center on Thursday said the warm trend will start in April and strengthen through June, except in the Dakotas and Minnesota... Full Story
(Agrimoney) - Adecoagro flagged the upside of Argentina's heavy rains, in boosting soybean yields... Full Story
Category: Weather
(Reuters) - El Niño might be on tap for mid-2017, a faster than normal reappearance, and the potential impacts on global agriculture depend partly on the timing of its arrival. El Niño is the warm phase of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which is characterized by sea surface temperature variations along the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Both El Niño and its cold counterpart La Niña are known to alter global climate patterns whenever either one is present.... Full Story
Category: Weather
(Ag Professional) - Some of the most important U.S. crops, from wheat to soybeans, are at risk of... Full Story
(Agrimoney) - Argentina's flood-threatened soybean hopes received a triple downgrade, with the... Full Story
(Inside Futures) - Grain markets are mixed after the long holiday weekend with weather on the minds of most traders. Outside markets will continue to focus... Full Story
Category: Grains, Miscellaneous, Policy, Technology, Weather
(Agriculture.com) - One of our most popular and favorite posts to write is the annual look at key questions facing production agriculture in the coming year. There are always a number of important... Full Story
(Agriculture.com) - The Chicago Board of Trade is closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in the U.S. Overnight trading resumes at its normal time this evening. Specs boost net-long in wheat to largest since 2014 as plantings fall to 107-year low. Speculative investors held the biggest net-long... Full Story
(Reuters) - U.S. wheat held steady on Thursday, lingering near a one-week low, as forecasts for crop friendly weather continued to weigh on prices ahead of a widely watched U.S. Department of Agriculture report later in the session... Full Story