Insights and Stories on Crops

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola’s slide likely to continue

Jul. 9, 2025 at 3:33 pm CDT

With the speculative fund selling and relatively decent crop conditions on the Canadian Prairies, a broker said canola futures have little option but to continue falling back.

A young farmer kneeling to look at corn in a corn field with combine in the background.

Artificial intelligence put to work on extension

Jul. 9, 2025 at 11:45 am CDT

By Robert Arnason

Manitoba Crop Report: Rains not enough to curb dryness

Jul. 9, 2025 at 10:37 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse Weekly: Conditions vary across Saskatchewan

Jul. 8, 2025 at 3:20 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Barley, oats sustainability quantified by study

Jul. 8, 2025 at 1:27 pm CDT

By Karen Briere

Ceres' northgate facility in Saskatchewan.

Bartlett Grain completes acquisition of Ceres Global Ag

Jul. 7, 2025 at 12:14 pm CDT

Bartlett Grain Company has completed its acquisition of Ceres Global Ag Corp after the deal was approved by shareholders at a special meeting held June 30, 2025.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Overhead shot of a grain cargo ship at a pier.

Bunge charters first Argentine soy meal cargo to China, shipping data show

Jul. 7, 2025 at 10:36 am CDT

Grains merchant Bunge has chartered 30,000 metric tons of Argentine soybean meal cargo destined for China, data seen by Reuters on Monday showed, which would mark the first such soymeal cargo since Beijing approved Argentine imports in 2019.

By Ella Cao Maximilian Heath Reuters

Alberta crop ratings nudge up

Jul. 4, 2025 at 3:40 pm CDT

Alberta saw its overall crop rating improve, but its surface soil became drier, the province’s latest crop report said.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Kochia’s expanding herbicide resistance puts pressure on no-till systems

Jul. 4, 2025 at 2:44 pm CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Kochia’s latest herbicide resistance — this time to Group 14 products — could make weed control trickier, especially for no-till farms. “It means more products; it means a lot more management,” Manitoba Agriculture weed extension specialist Kim Brown says. “Realistically, the sooner we get out in front […]

By Don Norman

Prairie wheat bids strengthen

Jul. 4, 2025 at 10:38 am CDT

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada strengthened during the week ended July 3, as gains in the United States futures and dryness concerns in parts of the Prairies provided support.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin