Insights and Stories on Cereal Crops

AgGronomyTV: Did your winter wheat survive the cold?

May. 1, 2025 at 9:48 am CDT

Choosing the best seed of your preferred winter cereal crop for fall planting is a great way to help ensure it will come alive and thrive once spring arrives, but how do you know if it has survived the winter cold? Anne Kirk, cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, shows […]

How Prairie cereals have reduced their carbon footprint

Apr. 25, 2025 at 10:30 am CDT

By Don Norman

(Left to right) Elaine Sopiwnyk, vice-president of technical services at Cereals Canada, with Cereals Canada chief executive officer Dean Dias and Winnipeg South MP Terry Duguid at the Cereals Canada pasta lab in Winnipeg Oct. 15. PHOTO: DON NORMAN

Federal funds announced for Cereals Canada

Oct. 15, 2024 at 3:23 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Cereal leaf disease minimal in Alberta but be aware of blown-in stripe rust

Jul. 26, 2024 at 4:10 pm CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Steady as she goes on wheat seeding rates

May. 10, 2024 at 10:25 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers Lee Hart

Positives and negatives both loom in cereal outlook

Nov. 16, 2018 at 8:52 pm CST

CNS Canada — There was a mix of good and bad from two senior market analysts when it came to their outlook for cereal crops. Jonathon Driedger and Neil Townsend, both with FarmLink Marketing Solutions, gave their thoughts about the global markets for wheat, durum, feed barley and oats Wednesday […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Lightest harvest in years expected for Germany

Aug. 10, 2018 at 9:39 am CDT

CNS Canada — Drought and heat continue to pound Germany’s crops and analysts now expect the lightest harvest in 24 years, the association of German farm co-operatives DRV said in an Aug. 8 harvest report. The harvest for all grains is expected to decline to about 36.3 million tonnes, a […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Trade sees record Canadian canola acres as possibility

Apr. 17, 2017 at 3:59 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers could be set to seed record-large canola acres in 2017, while wheat area is generally expected to be down on the year when Statistics Canada releases its first survey-based acreage estimates of the year on Friday. From a purely economic standpoint, “canola is historically the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Winter cereal acres unclear due to wet conditions

Nov. 7, 2016 at 3:42 pm CST

Commodity News Service Canada/Winnipeg – Variable conditions across Manitoba and Saskatchewan have made it difficult to estimate winter cereal acreage, the head of an industry group says. But crops that are in the ground have seen mostly favourable weather. Jake Davidson, executive director of Winter Cereals Canada Inc., said he’s […]

By Jade Markus

Trends for 2016: Pulses expected to steal acres from cereals

Dec. 23, 2015 at 1:07 pm CST

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are expected to seed more pulse crops at the expense of cereals in 2016, according to early projections from industry experts looking at current market trends. “Definitely we’ll see an increase in pulse crop acreage,” said Bruce Burnett, weather and crop specialist at G3 Canada. […]