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Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

Aug. 29, 2025 at 3:34 pm CDT

As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.

barley field in Sundre, Alberta. File Photo

Feed Grain Weekly: Barley seeing low prices, demand

Aug. 21, 2025 at 12:48 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed grains weekly: USDA ups global coarse grain estimate

Aug. 14, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Close up on a white steer poking its head through the fence at a feedlot in Alberta.

Feed Grain Weekly: Barley, wheat competing with U.S. corn

Aug. 7, 2025 at 11:24 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed Grain Weekly: Rain weakens Alberta prices, rest of Prairies remains firm

Jul. 31, 2025 at 3:59 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed Grain Weekly: Buyers holding off from making purchases

Jul. 24, 2025 at 11:43 am CDT

Weak demand continues to hamper prices for feed barley and wheat, said Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices in a slow decline

Jul. 10, 2025 at 1:02 pm CDT

Seasonal weakness and recent rains across the Prairies pressured feed grain prices according to a Moose Jaw-based trader.

By Adam Peleshaty

Barley, oats sustainability quantified by study

Jul. 8, 2025 at 1:27 pm CDT

The carbon footprint of oats and barley grown in Saskatchewan is lower than the same crops grown elsewhere, according to new study from the Global Institute for Food Security.

By Karen Briere