Insights and Stories on Cereals

Lots of flour to go around, millers’ association says

Mar. 25, 2020 at 2:53 pm CDT

The grain supply chain is working as it should during the COVID-19 pandemic, says the president of the Canadian National Millers Association. “From the milling industry vantage point, the movement of grain from farm to the producer to the elevator systems to mills is doing extremely well,” Gordon Harrison said […]

North America’s millers, bakers scramble to satisfy bread binge

Mar. 23, 2020 at 7:33 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Rod Nickel

Solid demand, logistics underpin durum bids

Mar. 23, 2020 at 2:54 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie cash wheat: Bids surge on U.S. gains, weaker loonie

Mar. 23, 2020 at 1:38 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Grain prices mostly steady through market turmoil

Mar. 19, 2020 at 12:55 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

GrainCorp’s global malting spinoff gets shareholders’ blessing

Mar. 19, 2020 at 11:55 am CDT

Shareholders in the Australian owner of Canada’s biggest malt company have voted nearly all in favour of a spinoff for their worldwide malting assets. During their general meeting Monday in Sydney, participating shareholders in GrainCorp voted over 99 per cent in favour of resolutions which will see the company’s malt […]

By GFM Staff

Prairie cash wheat: Weaker loonie battles lower U.S. futures

Mar. 16, 2020 at 2:23 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada for the week ended Thursday saw prices for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat on either side of steady. Prices for Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) saw a greater range of losses and gains, while prices for Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) were […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Seasonal restrictions underpin grains

Mar. 13, 2020 at 7:31 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Seasonal weight restrictions and spring road bans are providing some underlying support for feed grain bids in Western Canada, with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak also being followed closely. “Winter weights are coming off, which is restricting the areas (feedlots) can pull from,” said Allen Pirness, of MarketPlace Commodities […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

New feed and forage barley lines bring high yields, strong standability

Mar. 6, 2020 at 10:11 am CST

New feed and forage genetics are coming down the pipe for cattle feeders. At the end of February, the Prairie Grain Development Committee approved three new feed and forage barley varieties from the Field Crop Development Centre, as well as two triticale varieties that would be suitable for feed and […]

By Jennifer Blair

Feed weekly outlook: Soft demand weighs on prices

Mar. 5, 2020 at 7:31 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices on the Prairies remain soft ahead of spring planting, due to quiet demand from feedlots. “Feedlots are full of grain right now,” Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. said, explaining that there’s currently a lot of grain in feeding pipelines. “Spring replacement into […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm