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File photo of the Hernando de Soto Bridge as viewed from the Mud Island River Park at Memphis. (Akrassel/iStock/Getty Images)

U.S. barge backup worsens as Mississippi River shut near Memphis

Chicago | Reuters — A traffic jam on the lower Mississippi River swelled to 771 barges on Thursday as a fractured bridge near Memphis closed the waterway that is crucial for U.S. crop exports. The shutdown fueled concerns about shipping U.S. grain and soy to export markets at a time when global inventories are slim […] Read more

CBOT May 2019 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on trade deal hopes

By P.j. Huffstutter March 4, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures climbed on Monday amid news reports that Beijing and Washington are close to settling a lingering trade dispute, a breakthrough that could boost China’s demand for U.S. soy and other agricultural products. Corn also rose, pulling away from a three-month low struck in the previous session. Wheat prices […] Read more

This map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen across the Prairies so far this growing season (April 1 to Aug. 27). You can see just how dry it has been this year across the southern and central Prairies. A large part of this region has seen less than 250 millimetres over this five-month period, with large parts of Saskatchewan and southwestern Alberta seeing less than 200 millimetres. The only ‘wet’ area is in northwestern Saskatchewan and  north-central Alberta where precipitation amounts are in the 400- to 500-millimetre range.

Weather

There are extreme rains, and then the deluge caused by Harvey

Some parts of Texas received more rain in 24 hours than  Prairie centres have seen in their wettest-ever month 

By Daniel Bezte September 15, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes As fairly quiet weather continues across the Prairies, the big weather story recently has been Hurricane Harvey, which came ashore in Texas late on Aug. 26. Harvey rapidly strengthened in the 12-hour period leading up to landfall and came ashore as a borderline Category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 210 kilometres per hour. It wasn’t […] Read more

CBOT weekly outlook: Analysts await USDA crop estimates

CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle firm on scarce supply and firmer cash markets

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CBOT weekly outlook: Analysts await USDA crop estimates

CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle firm on scarce supply and firmer cash markets

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U.S. barge backup worsens as Mississippi River shut near Memphis

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on trade deal hopes

There are extreme rains, and then the deluge caused by Harvey

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