Insights and Stories on Oats

Oats steady and low, but price-wise the worst is over

Oct. 28, 2015 at 10:14 am CDT

Manitoba’s oat market is sitting low and stagnant, but since the commodity traditionally tracks corn futures, prices aren’t likely to depreciate further, says a U.S. analyst. “I think Manitoba farmers were expecting a lot better and Saskatchewan farmers were expecting a lot worse, but really when the combines got in […]

Feed: Frost pressures Australian barley

Oct. 20, 2015 at 3:52 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Gluten-free Cheerios recall not for Canada

Oct. 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm CDT

By Staff

Oat prices remain under pressure

Oct. 6, 2015 at 12:20 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

General Mills recalls 1.8M boxes of gluten-free Cheerios

Oct. 5, 2015 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Anjali Athavaley Ramkumar Iyer

StatsCan comes in at low end of expectations for canola

Oct. 2, 2015 at 10:10 am CDT

CNS Canada — Despite an upward revision of nearly a million tonnes in Statistics Canada’s latest report, most analysts expect canola production will keep climbing further. StatsCan on Friday morning released its updated grain/oilseed production estimates, with data collected through surveys taken between Sept. 3 and 13. Canola production numbers […]

By Dave Sims

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

Sep. 30, 2015 at 4:23 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Yields are generally beating earlier expectations as the harvest progresses across Western Canada, which should lead to upward revisions to canola and wheat when Statistics Canada releases its latest production survey results Friday. However, those numbers still may be underreported, and further revisions are expected in subsequent […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Little upside in oats as futures hit five-year lows

Aug. 17, 2015 at 7:11 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Oats futures in Chicago are trading at their lowest levels in five years, and cash bids in Western Canada are also doing little to encourage farmer selling. September oats at the Chicago Board of Trade settled Monday at US$2.2325, the lowest close for the front-month contract since […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie oats crop off to a decent start

Jun. 8, 2015 at 7:38 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Western Canadian farmers are wrapping up seeding their oats crops, which so far are off to a decent start in many areas. “I know in Manitoba, in the Red River Valley, the oats are off to an excellent start,” said Art Enns, president of the Prairie Oats […]

By Terryn Shiells

CME bars grain traders for years over wash trades, spoofing

Jun. 5, 2015 at 2:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– CME Group said Friday it barred a grain trader from its markets for three years for executing noncompetitive transactions and suspended another for two years for market manipulation. The traders, Aleksey Vsemirnov and Stephen Duggan, could not immediately be reached for comment. Vsemirnov executed numerous non-competitive […]

By Reuters