Insights and Stories on Markets

Klassen: Feeder market to start 2023 on firm tone

Jan. 3, 2023 at 1:48 pm CST

There were no market reports last week due to the holiday season; however, I still received a few calls from cattle producers regarding the feeder market outlook for the first quarter of 2023. The feeder market finished 2022 at 52-week highs. Steers averaging 500 lbs. were readily trading over the […]

Prairie cash wheat: Bids lower despite supportive factors

Dec. 30, 2022 at 8:04 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Grain, price movement ongoing over holidays

Dec. 30, 2022 at 7:46 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Klassen: Historically high deferred live cattle futures support feeder complex

Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:08 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

ICE weekly outlook: Markets rangebound into the New Year

Dec. 28, 2022 at 6:33 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Grains show strength as 2022 comes to close

Dec. 28, 2022 at 5:53 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite lighter trading on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) due to the holiday season, grain markets were still on the move before and after Christmas. Ryan Ettner, a commodity broker for Allendale Inc. at McHenry, Ill., said that while most high-volume traders will still be away for […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mostly higher

Dec. 27, 2022 at 1:16 am CST

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada saw some mixed activity during the week ended Thursday (Dec. 22), with small losses reported for red spring wheat in Manitoba, while prices were up in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly: Canola regains strength after days of declines

Dec. 21, 2022 at 7:11 pm CST

MarketsFarm — After a losing string of four straight sessions, the ICE Futures March canola contract regained some strength on Wednesday. Limited and choppy trading in nearby soybean contracts had pulled down canola for most of the week, according to Winnipeg-based independent trader Jerry Klassen. “When the March got up […]

By Adam Peleshaty

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. winter wheat to feel the cold

Dec. 21, 2022 at 6:46 pm CST

MarketsFarm — With frigid weather coming out of the Arctic, across the Canadian Prairies and into the U.S., there has been an upswing in wheat prices at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Prior to Christmas Day, temperatures are expected to fall as cold as -40 C in the northern […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Ford hikes price of cheapest F-150 electric truck variant

Dec. 15, 2022 at 3:59 pm CST

Reuters — Ford Motor Co. has raised the price of the cheapest variant of its F-150 Lightning electric truck by nine per cent, to US$55,974, the company’s website showed on Thursday. The automaker has raised prices for its electric pickup trucks twice in a span of three months, as it […]

By Reuters