Insights and Stories on Manitoba

At Ag in Motion: Significant Prairie yield drop expected

Jul. 20, 2023 at 1:50 pm CDT

MarketsFarm has released its first yield estimates for Western Canada’s crops and the outlook is grim. Analyst Bruce Burnett just recently completed a crop tour covering most of Saskatchewan. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of good news on the crop front,” he told growers attending the Ag in Motion […]

Prairie Forecast: Summer heat to build back in

Jul. 19, 2023 at 8:31 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

At Ag in Motion: Soybean proponents still eye western expansion

Jul. 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Alex McCuaig

Klassen: Feeder market continues climb

Jul. 18, 2023 at 1:26 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Prairie Forecast Update: Low pushes southeast instead

Jul. 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Feed weekly outlook: Dryness helps push up grain prices

Jul. 13, 2023 at 7:55 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As dry conditions continued to take root across much of the Canadian Prairies, feed grain prices have for the most part been climbing, according to Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. “The futures are coming up on quite a few commodities, so the prices have been […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Weather outlook not great for Prairie crops

Jul. 13, 2023 at 7:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Just when crops across the Canadian Prairies need rain, the outlook to the end of July according to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. pointed to conditions getting hotter and drier. “It does not look really good at the moment. We are going to see below normal rainfall […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Prairie Forecast: Large Hudson Bay low dominates

Jul. 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm CDT

As the weather models correctly predicted, a large and extremely strong area of low pressure formed over Hudson Bay during the last forecast period, bringing the expected cool and unsettled weather to the eastern half of the Prairies. Over the western half of the Prairies a weak upper-level ridging brought, […]

By Daniel Bezte

Klassen: Feeder market consolidates at historical highs

Jul. 11, 2023 at 12:11 pm CDT

For the week ending Saturday, western Canadian yearling steer prices were quoted $2-$4 higher; yearling heifers traded $2 higher to $5 lower. Calves were relatively unchanged although volumes were limited. Larger groups of quality genetics were well bid while second tier cattle were marginally discounted off the highs. Some ranches […]

By Jerry Klassen

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