Insights and Stories on Cereals

Prairie malt barley crop’s quality still up in air

Oct. 9, 2014 at 3:04 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Questions are being asked over how much barley in Western Canada will be good enough to meet malting standards in 2014-15. This year’s crop was already going to be smaller than last year’s, said Brian Otto, past-president with the Western Barley Growers Association. Statistics Canada estimated overall […]

Tighter supplies of higher-quality durum boosting bids

Oct. 8, 2014 at 12:45 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie cash wheat prices up as U.S. futures move higher

Oct. 6, 2014 at 5:06 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

Farmers in the U.S. Midwest told to get ready for a new “normal”

Oct. 3, 2014 at 11:33 am CDT

By Leeann Minogue

Japan, Korea can stop GMO testing, U.S. wheat group chief says

Oct. 2, 2014 at 5:27 pm CDT

By Carey Gillam

Russia surprises peers with early wheat export market exit

Oct. 1, 2014 at 5:30 pm CDT

London/Moscow | Reuters — Russian wheat has made a surprise early exit from key global export markets, despite the country’s near-record crop, after domestic prices rose in the fallout from the Ukraine crisis. With a bumper crop and the rouble close to historic lows, Russia could reasonably be expected to […]

By Polina Devitt Sarah McFarlane

Prairie CWRS bids up with improving basis

Sep. 29, 2014 at 6:56 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat were firmer across Western Canada during the week ended Friday, lifted by improving basis levels in many areas as quality problems and slow harvest progress remain a concern for the Canadian spring wheat crop. The highest CWRS […]

By Terryn Shiells

Agricorp extends Ont. winter wheat deadlines

Sep. 29, 2014 at 6:02 pm CDT

Ontario’s farm program delivery agency has put a seven-day extension on deadlines for seeding and reporting winter wheat acres in the province’s south. Citing “advancements in farm management techniques and hardier varieties of wheat,” Agricorp on Friday announced a new set of deadlines for winter wheat and organic winter spelt. […]

By Staff

U.S. says unapproved genetically modified wheat found in Montana

Sep. 26, 2014 at 5:50 pm CDT

Reuters — Monsanto’s experimental genetically engineered wheat, never approved for sale, has been found growing in a second U.S. state, and regulators said Friday they could not explain how the plants escaped field trials that ended almost a decade ago. About a year after discovery of the company’s unapproved wheat […]