Insights and Stories on Cereals

Prairie cash wheat bids mixed

Aug. 17, 2015 at 6:54 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat cash bids across Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Friday, with prices edging lower in the eastern Prairies and moving up in Alberta. Average CWRS prices were down by C$2-$4 per tonne in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but up by […]

USDA sees bumper corn, soy crops despite floods

Aug. 12, 2015 at 2:01 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Prairie cash wheat bids edge higher

Aug. 10, 2015 at 7:40 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Measuring your harvest loss is the first step to managing it

Aug. 6, 2015 at 3:42 pm CDT

By Jennifer Blair

Prairie CWRS cash bids soften, durum drops sharply

Aug. 4, 2015 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. spring wheat yield projections highest ever

Jul. 31, 2015 at 8:52 am CDT

Fargo, N.D. (Reuters) — Yield potential for spring wheat grown in the northern U.S. Plains was projected as the highest on record, with the crop benefiting from timely planting and cool weather, according to results from an annual crop tour. Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s three-day tour of North […]

By Julie Ingwersen

29 varieties to be removed from CWRS and CPSR classes

Jul. 30, 2015 at 10:03 am CDT

The Canadian Grain Commission has announced that as of August 1, 2017, 29 varieties will no longer be eligible for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat classes. The list (see below) of 25 CWRS and four CPSR varieties includes formerly popular varieties such as […]

By Staff

Good wheat prospects in central N.Dakota

Jul. 29, 2015 at 3:11 pm CDT

(Reuters) — Spring wheat has good yield potential in west-central North Dakota, aided by early planting, scouts on one leg of an annual crop tour said on Wednesday. Crop scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s tour traveling one route in west-central North Dakota made six stops, mostly in McLean County, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Sask. crops get soaked, but may take yield hit

Jul. 29, 2015 at 3:01 pm CDT

(Reuters) – Two days of rainstorms in Saskatchewan, Canada’s biggest wheat- and canola-growing province, may have done more harm to crops than good, even though farms were parched, a Saskatchewan government official said on Wednesday. Much of the province received rain on Monday and Tuesday, with the capital, Regina, collecting […]

By Rod Nickel

Above-average wheat yields in southern North Dakota

Jul. 28, 2015 at 2:57 pm CDT

Hebron, ND (Reuters) — Spring wheat prospects are above average in southern North Dakota, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday. Crop scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s tour travelling one route in south-central and southwestern North Dakota made four stops and projected an average yield of 45.6 bushels […]

By Julie Ingwersen