Insights and Stories on Cereals

China hits Australia with barley tariff

May. 18, 2020 at 9:33 pm CDT

Beijing/Sydney | Reuters — China added to tensions with Australia on Monday by announcing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties totalling 80.5 per cent on Australian barley imports from Tuesday (May 19), which is expected to all but halt a billion-dollar trade between them. China’s ministry of commerce said it had confirmed […]

Prairie cash wheat: Bids weaken with seeding underway

May. 17, 2020 at 10:24 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat holding fairly well

May. 14, 2020 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Overwintered barley beats expectations

May. 7, 2020 at 5:38 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed

May. 1, 2020 at 8:24 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Prairie cash wheat: Most bids see increases

Apr. 24, 2020 at 11:54 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mostly higher for the week ended Thursday. Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats improved and Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) was generally firm. Support came from steady to higher prices in U.S. markets, while a strong […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Slaughterhouse closures lead to adjustments

Apr. 21, 2020 at 6:23 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The closure of one of Canada’s largest beef slaughterhouses will lead to adjustments in the cattle feeding sector, as animals will be fed longer but on different rations. Cargill’s meat processing plant at High River, Alta. slaughters roughly 40 per cent of all the cattle butchered in Canada. […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie cash wheat: Durum holds steady, other spring wheats down

Apr. 17, 2020 at 8:25 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mostly lower for the week ended Thursday, due to declines in U.S. markets. Support came from a weaker Canadian dollar. Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats were lower, while Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) was steady […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Russia will suspend grain exports for six weeks if quota runs out mid-May

Apr. 17, 2020 at 6:52 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, will suspend grain exports until July 1 once its export quota is exhausted, which is currently expected to happen in mid-May, its deputy agriculture minister Oksana Lut said on Friday. Russia last fully banned wheat exports in 2010 when drought […]

By Polina Devitt

Feed weekly outlook: Prices steady, demand quiet

Apr. 16, 2020 at 7:56 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Demand for feed grains has slowed down on the Prairies due to uncertainty in cattle markets posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many cattle processing and packing plants across North America have closed or slowed production due to lack of staff, leading to widespread issues in feed grain supply […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm