Insights and Stories on Exports

Tight supplies underpin oat bids with demand rationing expected

Sep. 2, 2021 at 7:27 pm CDT

Corrected, Sept. 3 — MarketsFarm — Canadian oat prices should remain well supported over the next year given the smaller crop, but some demand will likely back away as buyers look for cheaper alternatives. While most of his customers were still taking delivery on existing contracts and not yet in […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end up off six-session skid

Sep. 1, 2021 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans sag on export worries after Ida

Sep. 1, 2021 at 6:40 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans, corn looking past hurricane

Sep. 1, 2021 at 2:43 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Tight Canadian supplies to cut into exports

Aug. 31, 2021 at 7:59 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Ag department lowers crop production, export estimates

Aug. 26, 2021 at 6:38 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian crop production will be down significantly in the 2021-22 marketing year, cutting into exports for all of the country’s major grains, oilseeds and pulse crops. That’s the estimation from the latest supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released Thursday. Total field crop production for all […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: No surprises in latest barley numbers

Aug. 26, 2021 at 4:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Following the release of monthly supply and demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Thursday, Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. wasn’t surprised at how low the numbers dropped, particularly for barley. Motz commented the harvest hasn’t been as good as initially thought, noting the […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Argentina forms agency to manage cargo river, grain exporters worry

Aug. 25, 2021 at 5:45 pm CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina said on Wednesday it had formed a new government agency to manage dredging operations needed to ensure navigation of the Parana River, which carries about 80 per cent of the country’s grains exports from the Pampas farm belt out to sea. For decades, cargo […]

By Hugh Bronstein Maximilian Heath

StatsCan sees higher cattle, hog inventories at July 1

Aug. 23, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

Nationwide head counts of livestock from the “early stages” of Western Canada’s ongoing drought won’t yet show the weather’s full impact, but showed slightly larger herds heading into this summer compared to last year. Statistics Canada on Monday reported the first year-over-year increase in the size of the country’s cattle […]

By Dave Bedard

Tax, competition expected to prolong Russian wheat export season

Aug. 23, 2021 at 3:40 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Exports of Russian wheat will stretch well into the second half of the season as Moscow’s export tax and tough competition with Ukraine and Romania slow sales until the end of 2021, traders and analysts said. Russia, the world’s largest exporter of wheat, generally sells most […]

By Polina Devitt