Insights and Stories on Cereals

Grainworld: Oats market a ‘trainwreck’

Feb. 25, 2014 at 6:32 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — The oats market in North America is a “trainwreck”, and there’s not much positive in the six- to 12-month outlook, an analyst told the Wild Oats Grainworld conference here Tuesday. “We have got bottlenecks all over the place. We are within an eyelash of shutting […]

CBOT oats run limit-up, hit record high on Prairie rail woes

Feb. 25, 2014 at 3:48 pm CST

U.S. wheat futures entering neutral territory

Feb. 20, 2014 at 1:43 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Trading limits expand for CBOT oats on Prairie rail jams

Feb. 19, 2014 at 4:01 pm CST

Spot bids for Prairie wheat climb with U.S. futures

Feb. 18, 2014 at 6:39 pm CST

By Terryn Shiells

Mexican bakery giant to buy Canada Bread

Feb. 12, 2014 at 4:08 pm CST

The reported frontrunner to buy Canada Bread is now officially the Canadian bakery firm’s buyer of choice. Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy all shares of Canada Bread Co. for $72 per share, or about $1.83 billion, accruing mainly to Canada Bread’s 90 per cent […]

By Staff

Spring flooding not a concern for Prairie winter wheat

Feb. 12, 2014 at 2:45 pm CST

CNS Canada — Some Prairie winter wheat-growing regions may have received large amounts of snow so far this winter, but flooding shouldn’t be a concern this spring. “We’ve run into some problems when we’ve had snowmelt not moving off of fields” in the past, said Bruce Burnett, weather and crop […]

By Terryn Shiells

Prairie wheat bids climb alongside U.S. futures

Feb. 10, 2014 at 3:46 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Western Canadian cash bids for Canada Prairie spring red (CPSR) and Canada Western red spring (CWRS) wheat moved higher, following the sharply stronger U.S. wheat futures markets during the week ending Monday. Average spot bids for CWRS (13.5 per cent protein) across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta came […]

By Terryn Shiells

Wireworm action added to cereal seed treatment

Feb. 8, 2014 at 1:13 pm CST

Bayer CropScience has installed a neonicotinoid wireworm defense in the latest version of its Raxil cereal seed treatment. The company last week launched Raxil PRO Shield, which includes the active fungicides from Bayer’s Raxil PRO formulation, tebuconazole, prothioconazole and metalaxyl. The new product, however, also includes imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide, […]

By Staff

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on profit-taking; corn, soy firm

Feb. 7, 2014 at 3:58 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell on profit-taking on Friday, the day after they hit a 3-1/2 week high on concern about the condition of the U.S. winter crop, traders said. Soybeans rose as traders positioned for a monthly U.S. government crop report due Monday […]

By Julie Ingwersen

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