Insights and Stories on Oats

Gluten-free Cheerios recall not for Canada

Oct. 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm CDT

Gluten-free Cheerios or Honey Nut Cheerios in bilingual English-French packaging aren’t affected by a recent recall over undeclared wheat ingredients, the cereal’s manufacturer says. General Mills Canada said Wednesday that the products it sells in Canada aren’t included in the recall announced Tuesday in the U.S. General Mills recalled several […]

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

By Dave Sims

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

Sep. 30, 2015 at 4:23 pm CDT

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

Gluten-free claim allowed on some oat products

May. 29, 2015 at 8:32 pm CDT

Celiac sufferers needing foods free of gluten will now be able to get certain oat products with a “gluten-free” claim. Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose on Friday announced the allowed claim for oat products that are produced and processed to avoid cross-contamination by gluten from other cereals’ grains and products. […]

By Staff

Big oats intentions surprise market

Apr. 24, 2015 at 6:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A surprisingly large increase for oats acres in Statistics Canada’s planting intentions report on Thursday led to a quick drop in prices. However, actual area will likely come in below the early expectations, as declining prices should cause some acres to shift elsewhere. Oats plantings were pegged […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin