Insights and Stories on Cereals

CBOT weekly outlook: MGEX wheat spread widens over winter wheats

Jun. 23, 2021 at 2:57 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Hot, dry growing conditions in key spring wheat-growing regions of the northern U.S. and Canadian Prairies have seen Minneapolis (MGEX) spring wheat futures widen their spread over Chicago and Kansas City winter wheat contracts over the past few weeks — with additional strength likely given the current weather […]

Feed weekly outlook: Rains, demand keep bids down

Jun. 17, 2021 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Rising costs cut into cattle profits

Jun. 10, 2021 at 3:20 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Rains, lower demand pressure grain bids

Jun. 3, 2021 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

WTO creates panel in China-Australia barley row

May. 31, 2021 at 3:36 am CDT

By Reuters

Prairie cash wheat: Bids correct higher

May. 29, 2021 at 1:29 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids across Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Thursday, as U.S. futures saw a corrective bounce after falling to their softest levels in over a month. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $8.50-$9 per tonne, according […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Canada’s barley exports show no signs of slowing

May. 28, 2021 at 8:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Tight Canadian barley supplies, due in part to surging export demand, have kept feed grain bids well supported in the Prairies over the past few months. The cupboards, however, are not quite bare, with weekly Canadian barley exports hitting their second-highest level of the crop-year-to-date. Canada exported 175,500 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

IGC expects larger world grain crop but tighter stocks

May. 28, 2021 at 4:12 am CDT

MarketsFarm — World grain production is forecast to hit a new record in 2021-22, but increasing demand should still cause ending stocks to tighten to their lowest level in seven years, according to updated projections from the International Grains Council. Total grain production — which includes wheat, corn and other […]

By MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Saskatchewan barley price spikes, drops

May. 20, 2021 at 3:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — It was a tale of two weeks for Saskatchewan feed barley prices. The high-delivered bid for the crop on May 11 bolted from $6 per bushel to $6.75 in one day, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire data. Saskatchewan’s price spike put the bid only 80 cents behind Alberta’s. […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Last year’s flour output up in most categories

May. 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada reported on Monday that Canadian wheat millers processed 3.267 million tonnes of all wheat in 2020 — a slight increase of about 2.1 per cent over 2019, keeping flour processing on the rise over the last four years. There were also year-to-year increases in the other […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm