Insights and Stories on Cereals

Alberta farmers try to wrap up ‘very unusual year’

Nov. 23, 2018 at 8:05 am CST

CNS Canada — As winter approaches, producers in Alberta are still in the fields trying to wrap up the last bit of the 2018 harvest. According to the final crop report issued by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, about six per cent of all crops were still in the field at […]

Winter Cereals Manitoba now in on amalgamation plan

Nov. 23, 2018 at 1:27 am CST

By GFM Staff

Feed weekly outlook: Durum, red spring wheat head to feed market

Nov. 22, 2018 at 8:21 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Positives and negatives both loom in cereal outlook

Nov. 16, 2018 at 8:52 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Sales of used grain dryers in Manitoba not worth the trouble

Nov. 16, 2018 at 2:06 pm CST

By Alexis Stockford

Canada’s malt barley courts two different buyers

Nov. 14, 2018 at 6:17 pm CST

CNS Canada — The rising North American craft beer sector and strong demand out of China are both good news stories for Canada’s malt barley sector. However, those two customers have different needs which can also create some challenges, said industry officials speaking Tuesday at the annual Grain World conference […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Trends stand out in StatsCan crop data: report

Nov. 13, 2018 at 8:08 pm CST

CNS Canada — Second-guessing Statistics Canada’s crop information may be a time-honoured tradition across the Prairies, but there are trends in the data that stand out, according to a recent report from the government agency. Looking at data over the past decade, total seeded canola acres were revised higher in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pre-booked corn pushing barley and wheat out of Alberta feedlots

Nov. 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm CST

CNS Canada – Cattle in “feedlot alley” in Lethbridge, Alta., won’t be seeing corn leave their diets any time soon, according to one feed grain buyer. “The marketplace booked up a fair bit of corn in advance of it, so through September, December and even out into March. So that’s […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Prairie feed grains drying out, influx of U.S. corn continues

Nov. 1, 2018 at 4:07 pm CDT

CNS Canada – While plenty of wheat and barley are being downgraded to feed quality in Western Canada, as harvest nears the end crops are starting to come off dry. “In general, the sunshine and weather has progressed us fairly quickly. Grain toward the end was even coming off dry, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Early winter wheat seeding estimates see reduced acreage

Nov. 1, 2018 at 10:10 am CDT

CNS Canada — Firm numbers for winter wheat seeding on the Prairies are not yet available, but there are firm opinions about how it went. “It’s very difficult to seed winter wheat on land that still has a crop on it,” said Monica Klaas, a contract agronomist for Ducks Unlimited’s […]

By Terry Fries