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Egypt raises price paid to local wheat farmers

May. 13, 2014 at 6:52 pm CDT

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, will pay local wheat farmers 500 Egyptian pounds (US$70.87) per Egyptian ardeb, the equivalent of around 150 kg, according to a statement posted on the finance ministry’s official Facebook page. Last year the government raised the fixed price it pays […]

Prairie winter wheat in good shape, analyst says

May. 13, 2014 at 4:57 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. wheat futures still rising, but ‘getting tired’

May. 5, 2014 at 6:06 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie winter wheat looking good, but damage still possible

Apr. 15, 2014 at 5:23 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

Weather, Ukraine boost U.S. wheat futures

Apr. 14, 2014 at 5:21 pm CDT

By Marney Blunt

U.S. wheat futures entering neutral territory

Feb. 20, 2014 at 1:43 pm CST

CNS Canada — All three U.S. wheat futures markets have posted good gains in recent weeks, after touching contract lows at the end of January. With improvements of 80 cents to a dollar per bushel off of the lows for Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago futures, wheat is now in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Mexican bakery giant to buy Canada Bread

Feb. 12, 2014 at 4:08 pm CST

The reported frontrunner to buy Canada Bread is now officially the Canadian bakery firm’s buyer of choice. Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy all shares of Canada Bread Co. for $72 per share, or about $1.83 billion, accruing mainly to Canada Bread’s 90 per cent […]

By Staff

Spring flooding not a concern for Prairie winter wheat

Feb. 12, 2014 at 2:45 pm CST

CNS Canada — Some Prairie winter wheat-growing regions may have received large amounts of snow so far this winter, but flooding shouldn’t be a concern this spring. “We’ve run into some problems when we’ve had snowmelt not moving off of fields” in the past, said Bruce Burnett, weather and crop […]

By Terryn Shiells

Prairie wheat bids climb alongside U.S. futures

Feb. 10, 2014 at 3:46 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Western Canadian cash bids for Canada Prairie spring red (CPSR) and Canada Western red spring (CWRS) wheat moved higher, following the sharply stronger U.S. wheat futures markets during the week ending Monday. Average spot bids for CWRS (13.5 per cent protein) across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta came […]

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. wheat futures correct higher

Feb. 4, 2014 at 5:27 pm CST

CNS Canada — All three U.S. wheat futures markets are finally seeing a corrective bounce, after declining steadily since October. While how much higher wheat futures can move remains to be seen, the sharp gains this week could be seen as a sign that the downtrend is over for the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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