Insights and Stories on Feed Markets

Jan. 17, 2019 at 8:21 pm CST

With the mild winter Western Canada has been experiencing, feed grain buyers expect prices should stay quiet for the next while. “I would say the buyers have adequate coverage for January, February, even a bit of March. And I would say we maybe have seen the (barley) price soften up […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Aug. 2, 2018 at 2:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada – Feed barley prices have no business being where they are, based on supply-demand fundamentals, but that hasn’t quelled the rally. With prices for old crop sitting a premium over new crop, most in the industry expected old crop would gradually decline over summer and the two would […]

By Terry Fries

Jul. 5, 2018 at 4:35 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Western Canadian feed grain buyers aren’t concerned if they’ll have crops to buy at the end of the summer, but they are concerned what the quality of those crops will be. “At this point it’s a weather market. So we kind of wait and see as it […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Nov. 24, 2016 at 5:10 pm CST

CNS Canada — A steady stream of fusarium-damaged wheat is flooding Alberta feedlots these days, giving ranchers a variety of choices on what they can give to their animals — but also keeping feed barley prices in check. “That has definitely been heavy on the barley,” said Allan Pirness of […]

By Dave Sims

Aug. 30, 2016 at 3:49 am CDT

Comments from the country this week suggested the market was slightly firmer than week-ago levels. However, market reports stated prices were relatively unchanged and actually softened late in the week. The old saying that even a priest lies about his car’s gas mileage applies to overly optimistic cattlemen trying to […]

By Jerry Klassen