Insights and Stories on Crop Conditions

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 […]

ICE weekly outlook: Canola prices ‘cheap’ but rangebound

Aug. 9, 2023 at 7:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Manitoba’s crops continue to hold up

Aug. 2, 2023 at 11:56 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

At Ag in Motion: World may face wheat shortage this year

Jul. 20, 2023 at 8:58 pm CDT

By Sean Pratt

Weather Brief: In Prairie crops, results may vary

Jul. 20, 2023 at 10:15 am CDT

Flax production to drop with fewer acres, dry conditions

Jul. 18, 2023 at 6:03 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As with other crops on the Canadian Prairies, flax has been struggling with the hot and dry conditions across the region. That said, Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada at Yorkton, Sask. noted there’s very little doubt when it comes to flax prices increasing during the course of […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Much of Canada abnormally dry or in moderate drought

Jul. 10, 2023 at 7:57 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — In a stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, a wide swath of Canada was contending with dryness, according to the latest report from the Canadian Drought Monitor. As of June 30, about 60 per cent of the country was abnormally dry to being in a moderate […]

By MarketsFarm

Manitoba sunflowers doing well with fewer acres

Jul. 10, 2023 at 3:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Despite fewer acres under hot and dry conditions, things are going well for Manitoba’s sunflower crop. Out of the 88,000 acres planted for sunflowers across Canada, 77,000 of them are in Manitoba, according to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) principal field crop acreage estimates released June 28. Both figures represent […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn drop on improved crop weather

Jul. 7, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Friday as recent welcome rains across the Midwest farm belt, and forecasts for more next week, aided crops that had been suffering under an early season drought. Soybeans, which notched a four-month high on Monday, ended down 1.9 per […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Wheat surges on slow harvesting, poor crop conditions

Jul. 5, 2023 at 5:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged on Wednesday as slow winter wheat harvesting and deteriorating spring crop conditions fuelled buying and short covering that lifted prices from 2-1/2-week lows. The wheat rally pulled corn up from 2-1/2-year lows despite expanded plantings and recent rains that lessened concerns about […]