Insights and Stories on Manitoba

StatsCan shows corn, soy output down across board

Dec. 10, 2019 at 7:07 am CST

Despite increases in Ontario’s harvested acres for both soybeans and corn, the province’s production of both crops in 2019 followed the rest of Canada’s lower in Statistics Canada’s latest estimates. StatsCan’s November estimates for production of principal field crops, released Friday, dropped Canada’s production of soybeans to six million tonnes, […]

Prairie cash wheat: CWRS prices up, durum largely down

Dec. 6, 2019 at 3:59 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Prairie cash wheat: Improved basis underpins bids

Nov. 29, 2019 at 7:11 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Difficult Manitoba harvest nearing its end

Nov. 6, 2019 at 4:56 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Manitoba agriculture merged into new provincial ministry

Oct. 23, 2019 at 8:23 pm CDT

Manitoba beef sector faces tight feed situation

Oct. 22, 2019 at 4:13 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — An early snowstorm may have been the last straw for Manitoba livestock producers looking to put up feed ahead of winter. While the foot or more of heavy snow that blanketed much of the province over the Thanksgiving weekend has melted, saturated fields continue to limit corn silage […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Manitoba’s sunflower crop under threat from weather

Oct. 21, 2019 at 2:54 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Manitoba’s sunflower crop has been compromised by the snow that fell over Thanksgiving weekend, but it’s not yet clear what percentage of the crop will be impacted. Before the snow fell, windy and rainy weather took a toll on the sunflower crop. The soil was oversaturated to the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Early snow hurts edible bean prospects

Oct. 16, 2019 at 8:54 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — An early snow storm hit key edible bean growing regions of Manitoba and the northern U.S. hard, with a large portion of the crop in the region now facing an uncertain future. “It is unprecedented what’s happened at this point,” said Tim Courneya, executive vice-president of the Northarvest […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola values stay rangebound

Oct. 16, 2019 at 8:33 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — One canola trader wouldn’t go so far as to calling the canola market lifeless, but it has remained rangebound for most of the week. That’s mainly due to pressure from harvest activity, which has carried on at an impressive pace on the Canadian Prairies despite being mired with […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Wet fall raises risk of Manitoba spring flood

Oct. 12, 2019 at 12:58 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Manitoba’s Red River Valley is very wet heading into the winter freeze, but it’s still too early to say if the saturated soils will lead to flooding in the spring, according to provincial forecasters. The Manitoba government on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of opening the Red River […]

By MarketsFarm Team