Insights and Stories on Manitoba

Prairie cash wheat: Bids correct higher

May. 29, 2021 at 1:29 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids across Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Thursday, as U.S. futures saw a corrective bounce after falling to their softest levels in over a month. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $8.50-$9 per tonne, according […]

Klassen: Feeder market heating up

May. 24, 2021 at 8:50 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Prairie growers on lookout as insects seize opportunity

May. 20, 2021 at 1:23 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Manitoba cautions on manganese in well water

May. 19, 2021 at 4:14 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas, beans hold up in dry Manitoba

May. 18, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Drier conditions will influence feeder market

May. 18, 2021 at 1:21 pm CDT

The feeder market was hard to define this week. The quality of yearlings was quite variable. Fleshier types were heavily discounted while quality packages were unchanged from seven days earlier. Calf prices were mostly unchanged; however, values were down $4-$6 in drier pockets of southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Southern […]

By Jerry Klassen

Forecast, flea beetles complicate canola timing

May. 14, 2021 at 7:20 pm CDT

Drought conditions, and the odds of more to come, have some Prairie canola growers pondering when to roll the dice on seeding, if they want to do more than feed the flea beetles. Small-seeded crops, such as canola, have garnered particular concern from agronomists and producers worried about germination, given […]

By Alexis Stockford

ADM to crush soybeans in North Dakota

May. 12, 2021 at 8:36 pm CDT

A former malt processing plant in eastern North Dakota is set to be the site of the state’s first soybean crushing plant. U.S. ag processor ADM, the ‘A’ of the four ‘ABCD’ companies that dominate global grain trading, announced Monday it will spend about US$350 million to develop a dedicated […]

By Dave Bedard

Klassen: Stronger fed cattle prices underpin feeder complex

May. 11, 2021 at 4:56 am CDT

Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a dressed basis in the range of $265-$270 delivered this past week, up $3-$5 from seven days earlier. Live prices were quoted at $159-$162 delivered using a 60 per cent grading. If the feedlot operator booked their feed grains earlier in winter, live […]

By Jerry Klassen

‘Extreme drought’ expands in Prairies

May. 10, 2021 at 5:41 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The newly released map from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Canadian Drought Monitor (CDM) shows the Prairies’ ongoing drought getting worse. According to AAFC’s nationwide map released on Friday, southwestern Manitoba, parts of southern Saskatchewan and the southeast corner of Alberta are under CDM’s classification of Extreme (D3) drought […]

By Adam Peleshaty