Insights and Stories on Cereals

Feed weekly outlook: Prices dropping off over past month

Apr. 1, 2021 at 4:22 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While prices for Canadian feed grains are quite higher than they were a year ago, high-delivered bids for feed grains have seen a slight drop-off over the past month. “Demand has just fallen off a little bit,” Glen Loyns, general manager of JGL Commodities at Moose Jaw, said. […]

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed as loonie jumps

Apr. 1, 2021 at 4:05 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed with falling futures, weaker loonie

Mar. 26, 2021 at 8:31 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Prices to remain strong in spring

Mar. 25, 2021 at 6:26 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Wheat stocks should limit barley’s further upside

Mar. 18, 2021 at 7:54 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oats riding high with other crops

Mar. 18, 2021 at 7:13 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Increased demand, both domestically and overseas, has caused the price of oats grown in Western Canada to rise compared to last year. And so far, seeding projections and rising prices for other crops suggest the market for oats won’t go down anytime soon. According to Prairie Ag Hotwire […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Demand from China puts Ukraine barley above top-end milling wheat

Mar. 12, 2021 at 4:35 pm CST

Kyiv | Reuters — Prices for Ukrainian-origin barley from this year’s harvest have exceeded those of high quality milling wheat due to strong demand from China, analysts at APK-Inform said on Friday. Forward contract prices for 2021 harvest barley stood at $220-$230 a tonne c.p.t. (carriage paid to) Black Sea […]

By Reuters

Feed weekly outlook: High barley prices to stay awhile

Mar. 11, 2021 at 7:07 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The price of feed barley in Western Canada, along with those of other feed grains such as corn and wheat, has jumped over the past year and shows no signs of a drop-off. Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities in Lethbridge said international demand — especially in China, Japan […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat at par in Alberta

Feb. 25, 2021 at 5:11 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Prices for feed barley and wheat are running about the same, from where Susanne Leclerc sits at Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. Barley and wheat going into central Alberta were both running at $315 per tonne, she said. “We’re seeing buyer strength gaining coverage for the summer,” she […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Demand strong for Canadian wheat

Feb. 18, 2021 at 7:57 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Domestically-grown feed wheat is seeing stronger prices and increased demand — but unlike other commodities, the demand is coming from Canada itself. Wheat has become a more desirable crop for feed rations in recent months as barley prices have risen due to increasing exports to China. With less […]

By Adam Peleshaty