Insights and Stories on Crops

Feed weekly outlook: Good grain yields seen in Saskatchewan, Manitoba

Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Despite delays in the ongoing barley and wheat harvests across the eastern Prairies, early indications have suggested healthy amounts of grain production. “Eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba still have a bit of harvest to go, but generally the yields are good,” Glen Loyns, general manager of JGL Commodities at […]

Canada to review impact of cannabis legalization four years on

Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:34 pm CDT

By Ismail Shakil

Global wheat production rises, corn drops

Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:25 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat reaches two-month high on Ukraine worries

Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:01 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S, grains: Wheat climbs as Ukraine war escalation feared

Sep. 21, 2022 at 6:22 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: War chatter part of market chaos

Sep. 21, 2022 at 4:35 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With the daily talk about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Scott Capinegro, president of Barrington Commodities at Barrington, Ill., has a special term for its effects on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). “I call it the Putin rally,” he quipped, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but lamenting […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: Seasonal upturn possible for canola

Sep. 21, 2022 at 4:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts may soon be due for a seasonal turn higher as harvest pressure subsides and prices should be looking very attractive to end users. However, uncertain outside influences will still dictate the overall direction. “The field certainly gets muddied by issues of geopolitics,” said MarketsFarm […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Nearly a million people face starvation in hunger hotspots, U.N. agencies report

Sep. 21, 2022 at 2:47 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of aid, as the global food crisis worsens, United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday. Local conflict and weather extremes remain the primary drivers […]

By Maytaal Angel

Sollio to exit southwestern Ontario grain handling

Sep. 20, 2022 at 8:33 pm CDT

One of Canada’s biggest ag co-operatives is moving ahead on plans to “optimize assets” by shedding its stake in grain handling in southwestern Ontario and focusing more closely on retail ag inputs. Sollio Agriculture, the agribusiness arm of Quebec-based Sollio Cooperative Group, on Tuesday announced it will start “an orderly […]

By Dave Bedard

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba peas, dry beans showing good results

Sep. 20, 2022 at 7:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Harvests of Manitoba’s two major pulse crops are already seeing high yields, according to Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers (MPSG) executive director Daryl Domitruk. Despite a wide range of results across the province, Domitruk added that dry field pea yields were respectable in many places and excellent in […]

By Adam Peleshaty