Insights and Stories on Cereals

U.S. wheat up with short-covering, but more downside possible

Jan. 8, 2016 at 6:38 pm CST

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures hit contract lows over the past week, before seeing a short-covering correction in recent days. However, with ample world supplies and poor export demand, the path of least resistance likely remains lower, according to market participants. The fundamentals are pretty bearish for wheat, but […]

Genetic codebreaking on wheat years ahead of schedule

Jan. 6, 2016 at 7:55 pm CST

By Staff

Egypt’s new wheat requirement could delay supplies

Jan. 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm CST

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Ardent restarts Illinois flour mill after flooding

Jan. 5, 2016 at 6:01 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

Prairie spring wheat bids down with U.S. futures

Jan. 4, 2016 at 6:33 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Floods close two Ardent flour mills

Dec. 30, 2015 at 5:48 pm CST

Reuters — Two Illinois flour mills near the Mississippi River and operated by Ardent Mills were shuttered because of flooding this week, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. Ardent, the largest U.S. flour miller, operated jointly by Cargill, ConAgra Foods and CHS Inc., said the mills in Chester and Alton […]

By Reuters

Flooding in U.S. Midwest threatens winter wheat

Dec. 29, 2015 at 12:49 am CST

Chicago | Reuters — Heavy weekend storms caused flooding in parts of the southern U.S. Midwest, threatening the region’s soft red winter wheat, crop experts said on Monday. A swath of eastern Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and southern Illinois received 7.5 to 18 cm of rain with localized totals of up […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Minogue: Wanna start a cereal seed company?

Dec. 22, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

It’s clear from where the Prairies’ cereal growers’ groups sit that it’s time for farmers to get more involved in wheat and barley breeding — and they have a new report in hand suggesting ways to do so. Options in the report, from the newly-formed Wheat and Barley Variety Working […]

By Leeann Minogue

Russian ministry proposes reducing wheat export tax

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:25 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s agriculture ministry has proposed that the government reduce or cancel its wheat export tax due to rouble volatility and a decline in global wheat benchmarks, the Interfax news agency reported, citing first deputy minister Evgenii Gromyko. The rouble has lost about six per cent against […]

By Reuters

Prairie spring wheat bids down as basis erodes

Dec. 21, 2015 at 5:51 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Friday, as basis levels deteriorated. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by C$1-$5 per tonne during the week, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points across the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin