Insights and Stories on Markets

Flood risk builds, looks to delay seeding

Apr. 6, 2011 at 2:48 pm CDT

Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for seeding. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and […]

Klassen: Feeder cattle prices consolidate

Apr. 5, 2011 at 1:06 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Canola grower group to canvass on using CWB

Apr. 4, 2011 at 11:30 pm CDT

Attention in ICE canola turns to weather

Mar. 30, 2011 at 6:11 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Drozd: Bull market in corn resumes after seasonal downturn

Mar. 30, 2011 at 3:16 pm CDT

By David Drozd

Chickpea market bullish with supply shortage

Mar. 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm CDT

Prices for chickpeas in Western Canada have been moving higher over the past month, as global supplies of the specialty crop have taken hit with poor production around the world. “Around the world, chickpea crops have been a disaster,” said Colin Young, manager of R. Young Seeds at Mortlach, Sask. […]

By Brent Harder

Ruling grants Friends of CWB standing, not much else

Mar. 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm CDT

A pro-Canadian Wheat Board farmers’ group says it’s won the right to take legal action when the federal government imposes changes on CWB director elections. But the Federal Court of Appeal ruling which grants the Friends of the CWB that right has also shot down the group’s appeal of changes […]

Klassen: Feeder cattle trend stalls

Mar. 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm CDT

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices took a break from the upward trend and traded on a softer tone last week. Adverse wet weather in the most regions had buyers discounting the market as they factor in feedlot inefficiencies. At the same time, the Alberta slaughter market was steady to $2 […]

By Jerry Klassen

CWB’s 2010-11 initial payments boosted

Mar. 28, 2011 at 5:46 pm CDT

Prairie growers who’ll have delivered wheat, durum and/or Pool B feed barley to the Canadian Wheat Board between last Aug. 1 and the end of this month are up for adjustment payments of as much as $75 per tonne. The CWB on Monday announced it has received federal approval for […]

Late spring means more feed barley needs for cattle

Mar. 28, 2011 at 4:58 pm CDT

Wet and cool conditions across the Prairies are expected to keep cattle producers buying feed barley, as their livestock will be headed out to pasture later than usual. Jim Beusekom, grain merchant with Marketplace Commodities at Lethbridge, Alta., said that for the time being at least, demand for barley should […]

By Brent Harder