Insights and Stories on Cereals

Oats’ buyers, sellers far apart on price

Mar. 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm CST

CNS Canada — Farmers with oats to sell and end-users willing to buy them are far apart in terms of price right now, limiting how much business is actually taking place. Major U.S. customers are well covered for the time being, “with enough to last for a few months worth […]

Egypt quarantine authority to ban ergot until new laws passed

Mar. 8, 2016 at 11:46 am CST

By Reuters

Egypt to allow trace ergot in wheat

Mar. 7, 2016 at 5:58 pm CST

By Reuters

Egypt’s Agriculture Ministry to keep sending wheat inspectors abroad

Mar. 4, 2016 at 4:38 pm CST

By maha-el-dahan

Grain consortium lobbying hard for Australia’s biggest wheat exporter

Mar. 4, 2016 at 9:50 am CST

By Cecile Lefort Colin Packham

Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt re-exported to Europe

Mar. 3, 2016 at 5:03 pm CST

Abu Dhabi | Reuters — A shipment of Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt over concerns it contained traces of ergot has been re-exported to Europe after Egypt’s agricultural quarantine rejected a petition from the supplier, trade sources said Thursday. Egypt’s quarantine authority has rejected a series of wheat shipments over […]

By maha-el-dahan

Prairie spring wheat bids drop as loonie rises

Feb. 29, 2016 at 1:32 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Friday, as the strengthening Canadian dollar cut into basis levels. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by about $5-$7 per tonne over the course of the week, according to price […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Cargill joint venture to build grain terminal in Ukraine

Feb. 24, 2016 at 6:41 pm CST

Kiev | Reuters — U.S. agriculture giant Cargill and Ukraine’s MV Cargo said they would build and operate a grain terminal at Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhny under a US$100 million joint venture agreement signed Wednesday. The terminal, near Ukraine’s biggest port city of Odessa, will have an annual […]

By Reuters

Prairie spring wheat bids rise with U.S. futures

Feb. 22, 2016 at 7:22 pm CST

CNS Canada — Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Friday, as U.S. futures moved up and basis levels held reasonably steady. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were up by about $2-$5 per tonne over the course of the week, according […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

PBR breach to cost Saskatchewan seed grower $150K

Feb. 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm CST

A Saskatchewan seed grower will pay $150,000 to SeCan — the largest penalty in the seed company’s history — for breaching SeCan’s plant breeders rights (PBR). Harvey Marcil of Pasqua Farms near Moose Jaw, Sask., has also agreed to stop making unauthorized seed sales and was expelled from SeCan’s membership, […]

By Allan Dawson