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Prairie wheat bids follow U.S. futures lower

Sep. 8, 2014 at 5:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) at moved down at most locations across Western Canada during the week ended Friday, despite mounting weather-related concerns across the Prairies, as losses in U.S. futures weighed on prices. The highest CWRS prices were still available in Manitoba, but average […]

East-west rail movement seen hurting Prairie oats

Sep. 5, 2014 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Prairie wheat bids hold steady

Sep. 2, 2014 at 5:36 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Recently-seeded Argentine wheat threatened by rain

Aug. 28, 2014 at 3:24 pm CDT

Prairie CWRS bids firm, CPSR holds steady

Aug. 25, 2014 at 7:04 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

Canadian durum exports still the best, but more consistency needed

Aug. 25, 2014 at 1:23 pm CDT

International durum buyers visiting the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) recently said they are seeing less consistency in their purchases from Canada since the end of single-desk marketing. “Sometimes we see peaks in proteins or test weight,” said Italian broker Miria Filomena Balletta in an interview. “Not just in the […]

By Meghan Mast

GRAINS: Nearby soy rallies on low old-crop supply; MGEX wheat jumps

Aug. 22, 2014 at 4:21 pm CDT

Reuters — Nearby U.S. soybean futures climbed to a one-week high on Friday as U.S. processors scrambled to find scarce old-crop supplies, with the start of the next harvest still at least a month away in the Midwest. MGEX spring wheat futures touched a two-week high amid concerns about excessive […]

By Tom Polansek

CIF Gulf Grain-Nearby soybean basis continue surge on processor demand

Aug. 22, 2014 at 4:06 pm CDT

CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) – U.S. CIF Gulf soybeans nearby basis markets were sharply higher, continuing a trend this week, as processors encouraged farmers to sell any remaining beans left from last year’s harvest to meet their immediate crush needs, traders said on Friday. A slower-than-expected start to the southern harvest, typically the first new-crop […]

By Christine Stebbins

France forced to import wheat as rain hits crop quality

Aug. 22, 2014 at 12:54 am CDT

Paris | Reuters –– France’s rain-hit wheat crop has delivered the first shock of the 2014-15 season: the EU’s top grower and exporter is buying Lithuanian and British milling wheat to mix with its unusually poor-grade crop to meet contracts signed before the harvest. French exports exceed those of Britain […]

By valerie-parent

Big Rock Brewery founder Ed McNally, 89

Aug. 21, 2014 at 5:43 pm CDT

The lawyer and farmer who founded Calgary’s Big Rock Brewery has died at age 89. Ed McNally, who founded what’s now Canada’s second largest Canadian-owned brewery in 1985, had retired as the company’s CEO in 2012, remaining its “chairman emeritus.” The cause of his death late Tuesday was not released. […]

By Staff