Insights and Stories on Cereals

Harvest delays prompt questions about malt barley supplies

Oct. 11, 2018 at 10:10 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The long, wet harvest of 2018 has probably spelled the end for most hopes that barley still in fields will meet malting specifications. “I really suspect that anything left in the field now, any barley now, will not be malting quality,” said Jeff Nielsen, a farmer near […]

Vietnam could halt imports of wheat containing thistle seed

Oct. 11, 2018 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Reuters

Feed weekly outlook: Snowy weather makes for larger feed supplies

Oct. 4, 2018 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

World crop briefs: Russia makes wheat pitch to Algeria

Oct. 2, 2018 at 3:07 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

CBOT weekly outlook: USDA reports not expected to shake up markets

Sep. 26, 2018 at 4:43 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Feeder cattle market holding value

Sep. 25, 2018 at 3:27 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were steady to as much as $4 higher while calf values traded within $5 on either side of unchanged. Current feedlot margins are hovering around break-even, but profitability will improve during October and November, given the recent strength in the deferred live […]

By Jerry Klassen

Feed weekly outlook: Cheap corn, Prairie harvest quality weigh on prices

Sep. 20, 2018 at 1:21 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Cheap corn imports and adverse Prairie harvest conditions should mean no shortage of feed grain in Alberta’s feedlot alley this winter — which should also keep prices under pressure going forward. “Anytime you get a ripe crop and you get snow and rain falling on it, it […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Lethbridge feedlots buying U.S. corn

Sep. 6, 2018 at 6:19 pm CDT

CNS Canada — As barley prices climb, feedlots around Lethbridge have found a cheaper feed option: corn from the U.S. “Price has (pushed feedlots to buy corn). Barley, it’s probably $4, $5 a tonne higher than corn price right now. And the cattle feeder can source corn quite easily and […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Russia meets grain traders, sees no need to limit exports

Sep. 4, 2018 at 4:34 am CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s agriculture ministry does not see a need to impose an export duty on grains or to curb grain exports in any other way, it said in a statement after a meeting with exporters on Monday. Chicago wheat prices — a global benchmark for grains — […]

By Reuters

Moving grain south of the border

Aug. 31, 2018 at 3:20 pm CDT

If you had a good arm, you might be able to stand outside the Ceres Northgate Terminal and wing a baseball from Saskatchewan into North Dakota. While the terminal and most of Ceres’ twin-loop track is in Canada, part of the track is south of the border. The facility’s border-straddling […]

By Lisa Guenther