Insights and Stories on Cereals

CWRS bids down, CPSR bids up across Prairies

Aug. 31, 2015 at 7:36 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat cash bids across Western Canada were steady to slightly lower during the week ended Friday, while Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) bids posted small gains. Average CWRS prices were down by C$1-$4 per tonne across the three Prairie provinces, according to […]

High protein, high yields seen in early malt barley

Aug. 27, 2015 at 8:06 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Barley’s genome now two-thirds sequenced

Aug. 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm CDT

By Staff

Higher-quality wheat likely in store for Prairies

Aug. 25, 2015 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Prairie cash wheat bids mixed

Aug. 24, 2015 at 5:44 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

StatsCan production estimates ‘too low’ for canola, wheat

Aug. 21, 2015 at 10:02 am CDT

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada released its first survey-based production estimates for the 2015-16 crop year Friday morning, with canola and wheat figures coming in at the lower end of expectations. But the grain trade is shrugging off the report, as it believes final production numbers for most crops will […]

By Terryn Shiells

Ardent to buy major Ontario soft wheat mill

Aug. 20, 2015 at 7:44 pm CDT

The owner of Canada’s Robin Hood flour mills is poised to buy the biggest soft wheat milling operation in the country. Ardent Mills, the joint North American flour venture of agrifood giants Cargill, CHS Inc. and ConAgra, announced Thursday it will buy the former Kraft Milling operation in Mississauga, Ont. […]

By Staff

‘Nothing bullish’ in wheat futures

Aug. 18, 2015 at 7:23 pm CDT

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures have moved steadily lower since the beginning of July, and appear poised for more losses as there is little supportive news in the market. “There’s just nothing bullish in the wheat market at the moment,” said Adam Knosalla of Frontier Futures in Minneapolis. He […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Little upside in oats as futures hit five-year lows

Aug. 17, 2015 at 7:11 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Oats futures in Chicago are trading at their lowest levels in five years, and cash bids in Western Canada are also doing little to encourage farmer selling. September oats at the Chicago Board of Trade settled Monday at US$2.2325, the lowest close for the front-month contract since […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Short-term barley prices seen likely to downtrend

Aug. 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Feed barley prices are moving slowly with hand-to-mouth buying as the crop moves into harvest, when already low prices will likely hit a downtrend. However, prices will likely recover into autumn, depending on how farmers choose to act, from where one market analyst sits. “If the farmers […]

By Jade Markus