Insights and Stories on Crops

Feed Grain Weekly: Weight issues, low cattle numbers holding prices back

Sep. 26, 2024 at 12:01 pm CDT

Feed grain prices on the Prairies stayed relatively steady for the week ended Sept. 25 as low cattle numbers in feedlots and light test weights for grains limit price gains.

Manitoba Crop Report: Heavy rainfalls slow harvest

Sep. 26, 2024 at 11:37 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola’s turnaround a ‘gift’ says broker

Sep. 25, 2024 at 4:00 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly: Wide-ranging yields for Manitoba dry beans, peas

Sep. 24, 2024 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Western mustard growers get new flea beetle seed treatment option

Sep. 20, 2024 at 2:46 pm CDT

By Alexis Stockford

Canadian purchases of U.S. corn off to slow start

Sep. 19, 2024 at 1:39 pm CDT

Canadian purchases of corn from the United States are off to a slow start in the 2024-25 marketing year, with ample old crop barley supplies likely limiting demand.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Saskatchewan crop report: Combining at about three-quarters mark

Sep. 19, 2024 at 12:27 pm CDT

The harvest in Saskatchewan advanced 13 points for the week ended Sept. 16, at 74 per cent complete, despite rain in some parts of the province. The pace of combining was eight points behind this time last year, but 11 ahead of the five-year average.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Manitoba harvest passes halfway mark: report

Sep. 18, 2024 at 9:48 am CDT

Harvest operations in Manitoba passed the halfway mark during the week ended Sept. 17, with wide ranging yields in the latest provincial crop report.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Largest Canadian chickpea crop in over two decades

Sep. 17, 2024 at 1:39 pm CDT

Canadian chickpea production hit its largest level in over two decades in 2024, although the increased supplies have cut into prices.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Fund traders add to bearish bets in canola

Sep. 16, 2024 at 1:46 pm CDT

Managed money fund traders added to their large net short position in canola in early September, while profit-taking saw a reduction in the bearish bets for soybeans and corn in Chicago, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin