Insights and Stories on Alberta

Hay-starved Prairies fertile ground for online scammers

Oct. 14, 2021 at 7:35 pm CDT

High demand, scarce supplies and rising prices for hay and other feeds due to this summer’s drought on the Prairies have made a market for online scammers, RCMP warn. The urgency driving such transactions may cause ranchers, farmers and farm workers to make purchases “without taking time to properly verify […]

Klassen: Demand for feeder cattle eases

Oct. 11, 2021 at 9:55 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Prairie cash wheat: Bids rise with U.S. futures

Oct. 8, 2021 at 7:44 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Feeder market continues consolidation

Oct. 5, 2021 at 1:00 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed as harvest comes to close

Oct. 1, 2021 at 7:00 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Klassen: Feeder market holds value

Sep. 28, 2021 at 8:42 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets traded $2-$4 on either side of unchanged; calf prices held value, but there were pockets like Lethbridge where values were $2-$4 higher. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis in the range of $156-$158. If an Alberta feedlot booked […]

By Jerry Klassen

G3 planning two more Prairie elevators

Sep. 27, 2021 at 6:15 pm CDT

Grain handler G3 has added a pair of new grain elevators — one in Alberta’s Peace region, the other in northeastern Saskatchewan — to its drawing board. The Winnipeg-based company announced Monday it will build new facilities at Rycroft, Alta. and Melfort, Sask., with construction starting later this year on […]

By Dave Bedard

Buyers found for five Prairie pulse plants

Sep. 25, 2021 at 5:58 am CDT

Three separate buyers are poised to take up the Prairie assets of ill-fated W.A. Grain and Pulse Solutions, pending an Alberta judge’s approval. An application went Thursday for approval before Justice Corina Dario of Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary, from BDO Canada, the receiver for the Alberta-based grain […]

By Dave Bedard

Prairie cash wheat: Gains in prices vary by type

Sep. 24, 2021 at 7:27 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Bids in Western Canada for the week ended Thursday were higher for Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD), Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats. Gains in most of the U.S. wheat markets led to the increases, which were tempered somewhat by a stronger […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Harvest lowers wheat, barley prices

Sep. 23, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With the hot and dry summer of 2021 now in the rearview mirror, the higher-than-normal prices for Alberta feed wheat and barley are starting to taper off as combining nears completion. “I think what we’ve been seeing for feed barley prices in (southern Alberta) is anywhere from $380 […]

By Adam Peleshaty