Insights and Stories on Barley

Canada to harvest less wheat than expected due to drought

Aug. 29, 2023 at 5:14 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers will harvest less wheat than expected after dry conditions in parts of the Prairie provinces shrunk yields, a government report showed on Tuesday. Drought is expected to send global wheat stockpiles for major exporters to the lowest levels in more than a decade, a […]

Klassen: Calf numbers down in Western Canada

Aug. 29, 2023 at 5:21 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices now steady

Aug. 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Australian wine industry faces hangover from China’s tariffs

Aug. 20, 2023 at 2:18 am CDT

By Praveen Menon

Bureau won’t challenge takeover of Canada Malting parent

Aug. 17, 2023 at 6:21 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Market steady in face of harvest, U.S. corn imports

Aug. 17, 2023 at 5:01 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The feed grain market in Western Canada is holding reasonably steady as harvest operations progress and corn imports continue to come up from the United States. Anecdotal harvest reports were varied so far, with surprisingly positive results from some growers and others who missed out on showers ending […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Crop conditions, barley demand lower

Aug. 10, 2023 at 6:59 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As combining operations begin, dryness continues to plague crops in many parts of Saskatchewan. But while crop conditions aren’t as bad as they were during the drought of 2021, according to trader Evan Peterson from JGL Commodities in Saskatoon, crops are still very parched. “Southern and western parts […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Klassen: Upward momentum in feeder market eases

Aug. 8, 2023 at 7:12 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets were relatively unchanged. Higher-quality groups of yearling heifers appeared to trade steady to $2 higher on average while steer markets traded $3-$4 higher to $2 lower. Calf prices are unchanged from seven days earlier. The rally in deferred live cattle futures […]

By Jerry Klassen

Organic price quotes: Late July

Jul. 31, 2023 at 4:20 pm CDT

RELATED: Weather, rising conventional prices affecting organics

By OrganicBiz

Feed weekly outlook: wheat, barley prices still on the rise

Jul. 27, 2023 at 5:10 pm CDT

Marketsfarm – Variable crop conditions in Alberta and Saskatchewan are contributing to rising feed grain prices on the Prairies just weeks away from harvest. Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. in Stony Plain, Alta., said while conditions in the northern half of Alberta are good in some places, areas […]