Insights and Stories on Crops

Richardson elevators expanding to feed ‘high-efficiency’ trains

Jun. 26, 2023 at 7:56 pm CDT

Grain handler Richardson International plans to expand rail car spots at eight Prairie elevators on Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) lines as the railway gears up for longer trains with new higher-volume hopper cars. Winnipeg-based Richardson on Monday announced expanded rail car spots for its elevators at Lacombe, Carseland, Provost […]

U.S. grains: Wheat retreats after Russia worries lift market

Jun. 26, 2023 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Analysts expect little change in new StatCan numbers

Jun. 26, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat vaults higher, durum nudges up

Jun. 23, 2023 at 7:31 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans, wheat fall ahead of weekend

Jun. 23, 2023 at 7:17 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Ukraine ‘99.9 per cent’ certain Russia will quit Black Sea deal next month

Jun. 23, 2023 at 1:14 pm CDT

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia is 99.9 per cent certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Feds lift ‘pause’ on increases in crop chemical MRLs

Jun. 22, 2023 at 10:19 pm CDT

Proposals to increase a crop chemical’s maximum residue limits (MRLs) on foods and food crops in Canada can again seek federal approval, after being put on temporary hold two years ago. Among several other changes, a planned new package of federal regulatory amendments will put a gradual end to a […]

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Rains lift interest, prices

Jun. 22, 2023 at 6:01 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — When Alberta was dry, feed prices drew little interest according to Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. But that changed after some timely rains, with prices on the rise. “There’s more demand than we have seen in a while,” Leclerc said. “When crops were looking crappy […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soy, corn down off multi-month highs

Jun. 22, 2023 at 5:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures fell on Thursday, pressured by a round of profit-taking and some weather outlooks that called for relief to drought-stricken crops in the U.S. Midwest, traders said. “The markets have obviously been overbought on the run-up here on weather,” […]

By Mark Weinraub

AAFC’s June supply/demand estimates mostly unchanged

Jun. 22, 2023 at 2:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Monthly supply/demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada were left mostly unchanged in June, as the department awaits updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada at the end of the month. Only corn saw any adjustments in the numbers from May, with a 200,000-tonne increase in 2022-23 exports, now […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin