Insights and Stories on Crops

Manitoba crop report: Seeding speeds up to normal pace

May. 15, 2024 at 11:45 am CDT

Planting progress greatly accelerated across Manitoba during the week ended May 12. The province’s crop report released on May 14 showed that seeding was at 30 per cent completion, compared to just four per cent the week before.

Feds invest in research to promote more diverse crop rotations

May. 14, 2024 at 5:02 pm CDT

By Diana Martin

Farmer walks toward an air seeder with a blue sky above.

Seeding in Alberta ahead of pace

May. 10, 2024 at 4:08 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Steady as she goes on wheat seeding rates

May. 10, 2024 at 10:25 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers Lee Hart

Manitoba seeding progress made, but behind average pace

May. 8, 2024 at 12:41 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy, corn futures extend surge on volatile global weather

May. 6, 2024 at 4:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. wheat, soybean and corn futures soared to multi-month highs on Monday on worries about potentially crop-damaging weather in Brazil and Russia. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) July wheat WN24 settled up 26-1/4 cents at $6.48-3/4 a bushel after climbing to $6.50-1/4, its highest level since late December. […]

By Renee Hickman

U.S. grains: Corn hits 3-month high; soy, wheat climbs on weather

May. 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. corn futures rose on Friday to their highest level since January before turning lower and soybeans reached a one-month peak as floods disrupted harvests in top exporter Brazil and disease ate into Argentina’s corn crop, analysts said. Wheat futures hit a one-week high on renewed concerns over dry […]

By Renee Hickman

Building a better canola with broccoli

Apr. 30, 2024 at 3:55 pm CDT

There’s little doubt that canola is a powerhouse crop. Nationwide, it covered nearly 22.1 million acres last year, more than 99 per cent of it on the Prairies. The Canola Council of Canada puts its economic contribution at nearly $30 billion a year. A University of Alberta researcher, backed by […]

By Jeff Melchior

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat rallies for seventh trading day on weather, crop conditions

Apr. 26, 2024 at 4:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat futures turned higher for a seventh trading day on Friday on a weather driven surge that pushed the most-active wheat contract on a continual chart Wv1 to prices not seen since December. Soybean futures inched down, and corn stayed fairly flat, as traders watched […]

By Renee Hickman

Prairie wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

Apr. 26, 2024 at 4:32 pm CDT

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada climbed higher during the week ended April 25, as a rally in United States futures provided support. Chart-based speculative buying was behind much of the strength in the futures, as fund traders bought back some of their large net short position. Declining crop ratings […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin