Insights and Stories on Cereals

Feed barley defies expectations as prices rally

Aug. 2, 2018 at 2:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada – Feed barley prices have no business being where they are, based on supply-demand fundamentals, but that hasn’t quelled the rally. With prices for old crop sitting a premium over new crop, most in the industry expected old crop would gradually decline over summer and the two would […]

Saskatchewan harvest underway: Report

Aug. 2, 2018 at 12:55 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn and soy markets awaiting USDA report

Aug. 1, 2018 at 12:01 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Wheat futures climbing higher

Jul. 31, 2018 at 3:46 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie crop tour sees slightly bigger wheat, canola yields

Jul. 26, 2018 at 4:15 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Japan resumes Canadian wheat purchases

Jul. 20, 2018 at 11:08 am CDT

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan’s agriculture ministry said Friday it had resumed purchases of Canadian wheat after testing showed no imports that reached the country included grain containing a genetically modified trait discovered in Alberta last summer. Japan’s agriculture ministry said it was seeking to buy 62,957 tonnes of food-quality […]

By Reuters

Feed weekly outlook: Barley exports could signal market strength

Jul. 19, 2018 at 7:44 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Jeff Nielsen, a director with Alberta Barley, expected barley exports to make a strong showing. Numbers recently posted by the Canadian Grain Commission confirmed the good news he had been waiting for. “We kind of had an inkling they were going to be good and high and […]

By Terry Fries

France to the rescue as drought hits EU barley crop

Jul. 19, 2018 at 5:42 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters — Drought has seriously damaged barley harvests in northern Europe, potentially tightening supplies of animal feed and malt for beer brewing, but a decent crop in France could save the day, experts said on Thursday. “There are painful crop losses in Germany, Poland, Britain and Scandinavia,” one […]

By Reuters

Chinese demand boosting Canadian wheat, barley exports

Jul. 18, 2018 at 9:11 pm CDT

CNS Canada — China is making major moves to import more Canadian wheat and barley this year. Data released by the Canadian Grain Commission show China more than tripled its wheat imports, taking in 979,100 tonnes as of May, up from 295,300 tonnes in the same period of 2016-17 and […]

By Terry Fries

World’s oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

Jul. 16, 2018 at 8:07 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture. No matter how you slice it, the […]

By Will Dunham