Insights and Stories on Export

Pulse weekly outlook: Canada’s lentils face competition

Feb. 2, 2021 at 7:16 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Acreage and production of lentils in Canada are expected to mostly remain the same for the 2021-22 crop year. While strong demand during the COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered prices over the past year, increased production from competing exporters may cut into that buying interest going forward. Elyce Simpson […]

Feed weekly outlook: Offshore demand still lifting Prairie barley

Jan. 21, 2021 at 4:23 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall, pressured by fund selling

Jan. 20, 2021 at 5:51 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

Argentine farmers end sales strike as corn export cap pulled

Jan. 13, 2021 at 11:52 pm CST

By Maximilian Heath

Argentina lifts corn export ban

Jan. 11, 2021 at 2:34 am CST

By Maximilian Heath

U.S. grains: Wheat soars as Russia eyes export curbs

Dec. 11, 2020 at 8:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged on Friday on concerns about thinning global supplies after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) slashed its grain stocks outlook and as top supplier Russia pondered export curbs. Corn and soy futures also rose as tightening supplies, particularly of soybeans, and lingering […]

By Karl Plume

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids firm as feeders seek coverage through spring

Nov. 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed barley bids held firm through November in Western Canada, with higher prices for deferred delivery as feedlots work to secure supplies in the face of solid export demand. Spot feed barley bids in the Lethbridge, Alta. area have held in the $270-$275 per tonne range through November, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Prices gain strength

Sep. 3, 2020 at 3:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Harvest activity in the western Canadian Prairies had depressed feed grain prices at the end of August, but prices have recovered slightly. “There’s been a bit of a break in harvest activity,” Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge said. Producers in southern Alberta had been harvesting […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures extend gains on China demand

Jul. 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and corn futures rose on Friday, with soybeans hitting a one-week top as a pick-up in export demand for both crops, primarily from China, sparked speculative buying and short-covering, analysts said. Soybeans got an additional boost from surging palm and soyoil futures. But forecasts […]

By Julie Ingwersen

China suspends beef imports from Cargill plant

Jul. 6, 2020 at 3:33 pm CDT

China has temporarily suspended imports of beef from Cargill’s major beef packing plant at High River, Alta., part of a long list of meat plants blocked in the last half of June. The Reuters news service on Monday published a list of meat packing plants from around the world which […]

By Dave Bedard

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