Insights and Stories on Cereals

Delivery deadline looms as wheat classes change

Jun. 15, 2018 at 2:52 pm CDT

Western Canadian farmers should deliver certain wheat varieties before July 31 or risk getting a lower price. Starting Aug. 1, 25 wheats in the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) class and four in Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR), move to the Canada Northern Hard Red (CNHR) class (see variety list […]

Japan suspends sale of Canadian wheat

Jun. 15, 2018 at 11:23 am CDT

By Rod Nickel Yuka Obayashi

Feed weekly outlook: Optimism takes pressure off Prairie grains

Jun. 14, 2018 at 8:59 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Unapproved glyphosate-resistant wheat found in Alberta

Jun. 14, 2018 at 2:55 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices feeling some pressure

Jun. 8, 2018 at 8:35 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Ample supply keeps oats under pressure

Jun. 8, 2018 at 8:24 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian oat crops are in reasonably good shape following recent rains, though prices may find themselves under pressure as end-users are well covered for the time being. Farmers planned on seeding about 3.15 million acres of oats in the country in 2018, down only slightly from the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Finding a use for wheat with fusarium

Jun. 1, 2018 at 2:22 pm CDT

Got fusarium? Chances are North West Terminal in Unity, Sask., can use that wheat. Next door to the terminal is a  bioproducts plant, which is run by North West Terminal’s sister company, North West Bio-Energy. Since 2009, North West Bio-Energy has been producing ethanol. Today it also produces industrial-grade alcohol. […]

By Lisa Guenther

Feed weekly outlook: Feed grains slip, but still solid overall

Jun. 1, 2018 at 10:20 am CDT

CNS Canada — Feed barley prices may have come down slightly from their highs earlier in the spring, but remain solid overall, according to an Edmonton-based merchant. Dry weather and the late spring created some uncertainty in the market, and led to opportunities for some growers, said Samantha Metcalfe, a […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Top court in Egypt permits wheat with trace ergot

May. 28, 2018 at 8:10 pm CDT

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s top administrative court has ruled that the country should accept wheat with marginal levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a local newspapers said on Sunday, freezing a lower court order to ban the fungus entirely which had vexed traders. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat […]

By Reuters

Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices hang tight, await new crop

May. 24, 2018 at 7:49 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The thought of sizzling days near the end of May 2017 is helping keep feed barley prices in Western Canada well supported, according to a market-watcher. “There is that memory of last year’s drought and seeing temperatures in the high 20s and 30s at the end of […]

By Dave Sims