Insights and Stories on Cereals

Low-quality feed being dumped on market

Jan. 4, 2017 at 6:28 pm CST

CNS Canada — Prices for feed barley and wheat don’t appear ready to spike anytime soon, as farmers across Western Canada continue to dump supplies containing high concentrations of vomitoxin and fusarium into feedlots. “Steady as it goes here is the tone,” said Allan Pirness of Market Place Commodities in […]

U.S. wheat farmers fret over failing market hedges as incomes slump

Dec. 28, 2016 at 3:29 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Is Canada ready for a world awash in Russian wheat?

Dec. 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm CST

By Gerald Pilger

Tight high-protein supplies underpin Minneapolis wheat

Dec. 15, 2016 at 6:22 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

China shipping wheat flour to Canada

Dec. 7, 2016 at 9:07 pm CST

By Staff

Focus on quality, not quantity following StatsCan report

Dec. 6, 2016 at 6:55 pm CST

CNS Canada –– This year’s Canadian wheat production was up considerably from last year, according to updated estimates from Statistics Canada — but the quality of that crop remains questionable. All-wheat production (spring, winter and durum wheat combined) was pegged at 31.7 million tonnes in 2016-17, which compares with 27.6 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canadian wheat, canola crops seen weathering snow

Dec. 1, 2016 at 7:50 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s wheat and canola crops withstood wintry weather that stalled the autumn harvest, and production topped last year’s output, according to Reuters’ industry survey of 13 analysts and traders. Statistics Canada on Tuesday will issue its final crop production estimates for the 2016-17 marketing year. The […]

By Rod Nickel

ADM sells stake in Canada Malting owner GrainCorp

Dec. 1, 2016 at 7:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. agricultural commodities trader Archer Daniels Midland has sold its 19.9 per cent stake in GrainCorp to underwriters UBS, just three years after a failed bid to wholly acquire the Australian grain handler, ADM said Thursday. The sale to the Swiss bank was valued at A$387 […]

By Karl Plume

A look at G3’s proposed new Vancouver grain terminal

Nov. 25, 2016 at 9:49 am CST

G3’s proposed Vancouver grain terminal will be the most efficient in North America and maybe the world, Doug MacDonald told Prairie farm leaders touring the port Nov. 15. CN’s vice-president of bulk commodities made the comment as the group’s boat cruised by the Lynnterm break bulk terminal on the north […]

By Allan Dawson

Plentiful feed supplies weigh on feed barley prices

Nov. 24, 2016 at 5:10 pm CST

CNS Canada — A steady stream of fusarium-damaged wheat is flooding Alberta feedlots these days, giving ranchers a variety of choices on what they can give to their animals — but also keeping feed barley prices in check. “That has definitely been heavy on the barley,” said Allan Pirness of […]

By Dave Sims