Insights and Stories on Cereals

Feed weekly outlook: Alberta feedlots prepared for supply issues

Aug. 30, 2018 at 10:34 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Many regions of the Prairies expect some feed shortages this year, but Alberta feedlots have plans ready to deal with those issues. Bryan Walton, CEO of the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association, said overall conditions appear decent, although producers in drier areas have silaged barley rather than wait […]

Wheat trade hoping for big export year

Aug. 23, 2018 at 7:37 am CDT

By Terry Fries

Russian ag minister sees no need for wheat export duty, for now

Aug. 21, 2018 at 11:58 am CDT

By Reuters

Manitoba winter wheat yields down

Aug. 17, 2018 at 9:26 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Durum markets rattled as harvest set to start

Aug. 16, 2018 at 5:36 pm CDT

By Terry Fries

Feed weekly outlook: Shortages expected for Prairie barley

Aug. 16, 2018 at 4:23 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Sales have slowed for feed grain buyers in Western Canada, as concerns continue to mount about feed shortages. “The confidence from the farmer is not (there anymore). He just wants to see some crop come into his bin. So we’ve definitely slowed in our buying,” said Brandon […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Some North Dakota wheat rejected for ergot, merchants say

Aug. 14, 2018 at 2:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Elevated levels of the grain fungus ergot are showing up in spring wheat being harvested in south-central North Dakota, prompting grain elevators to impose discounts and even turn some truckloads away, grain merchants said Tuesday. Ergot is a common grain fungus but some major buyers, including […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Drought slashes EU wheat, export surplus to be cut

Aug. 10, 2018 at 4:57 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters – Drought and a heatwave that scorched fields in northern Europe may cut the European Union’s wheat export surplus and the bloc will need to consume more of its own grains, experts said on Friday. French analysts Strategie Grains forecast a 10 percent smaller EU soft wheat […]

By Gus Trompiz Michael Hogan Nigel Hunt

Early harvest pressures Prairie barley prices

Aug. 9, 2018 at 3:48 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Barley prices in Western Canada are falling as an early harvest is weighing on values. “Prices have moderated here,” said Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities Ltd. Lethbridge, Alta. The surprise rally from last week ended as quickly as it began. Prices which started last week at […]

By Terry Fries

Saudi Arabian agency stops buying Canadian wheat, barley

Aug. 7, 2018 at 4:32 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters – Saudi Arabia’s main state wheat buying agency has told grains exporters it will no longer buy Canadian wheat and barley in its international tenders, European traders said on Tuesday, as a diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalates. Traders said they had received an official notice […]

By Michael Hogan