Insights and Stories on Winter Wheat

Jul. 18, 2014 at 3:36 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell 3.4 per cent on Friday, erasing gains posted a day earlier following the downing of a Malaysian commercial airliner over eastern Ukraine, while Chicago Board of Trade corn futures also declined and soybeans were mostly lower. Investors were worried an escalation of the conflict […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Jul. 18, 2014 at 1:15 pm CDT

Wet weather in eastern Saskatchewan and much of Manitoba means farmers likely have fusarium head blight risk on their minds. But cereal grades are only at stake risk if environmental risks match up with flowering, a crop pathologist says. Vikram Bisht, field crop pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural […]

By Lisa Guenther

Jul. 11, 2014 at 11:33 am CDT

CNS Canada — While many crops in southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are considered a write-off this year due to excessive precipitation and flooding, winter wheat is sitting in an area of uncertainty. “We’re not doing worse than anybody else, let’s put it that way,” said Jake Davidson, executive director of […]

By Marney Blunt

Jun. 19, 2014 at 6:44 pm CDT

Brasilia | Reuters — The Brazilian government plans to reduce to zero the 10 per cent import tariff applied to non-Mercosur wheat for a quota of up to one million tonnes through Aug. 15, a source in the government with knowledge of the plan said Wednesday. Brazil, regularly one of […]

Jun. 6, 2014 at 11:20 am CDT

Six months ago, panic made many farmers jump and sell low-priced grain at historically wide basis levels First, let’s review what was happening six months ago. Cold snowy weather backlogged logistics, but problems started months before that, in late summer and early fall. World buyers were buying little grain from […]

By Brian Wittal