Insights and Stories on Cereals

Researchers breed barley for climate change

May. 14, 2021 at 9:30 am CDT

As climate change creates hotter, drier weather in southern latitudes and pushes agriculture north, a team of barley researchers has harnessed genetic tools to help producers adapt. Magnus Göransson from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the Agricultural University of Iceland looked at 84 spring barley lines from northern […]

Feed weekly outlook: Falling futures suggest first cracks in lofty market

May. 13, 2021 at 5:22 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

USDA expects record world wheat crop in 2021-22

May. 12, 2021 at 5:01 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Morocco reimposing 170 per cent duty on hard wheat

May. 10, 2021 at 4:46 pm CDT

By Reuters

Feed weekly outlook: Drought, demand deplete southern Alberta stocks

May. 6, 2021 at 7:53 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Solid exports support domestic barley market

Apr. 29, 2021 at 7:00 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canada has already exported more barley through the first two-thirds of the 2020-21 marketing year than in any full crop year in over a decade. That solid export pace is keeping domestic prices well supported, with an increase in seeded area in 2021-22 expected. Export data from the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Prices taper off ahead of report

Apr. 23, 2021 at 6:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While prices for feed wheat and feed barley in Western Canada remain substantially higher than one year ago, the past month has seen slight declines. As of Wednesday, high-delivered bids for feed wheat were at least $7.25 per bushel, more than $1.50 higher than last year according to […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie cash wheat: Bids soar after weather events

Apr. 16, 2021 at 7:29 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Cash bids for Prairie wheat jumped as wintry weather made its way across the Prairies and U.S. northern Plains during the week ending Thursday. Wheat futures in the U.S. rose due to spillover from soybeans. However, a stronger Canadian dollar tempered Prairie wheat prices. Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grains firm, watching new-crop weather

Apr. 15, 2021 at 4:56 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Tight barley supplies in Western Canada continue to keep the feed market underpinned, with gains in the U.S. corn market also providing support to grain markets in general. “We’re starting to see a bit of an early weather market in the U.S.,” Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Spring wheat slowly regains premiums

Apr. 7, 2021 at 9:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Nearby Minneapolis spring wheat contracts have historically traded at a premium compared to their Chicago and Kansas City soft wheat counterparts. And after a winter during which that premium had all but disappeared, spring wheat has so far made gains in 2021. Since the start of the year, […]

By Adam Peleshaty