Insights and Stories on Oats Acres

Demand pushes up cash prices for oats

Jun. 8, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While scarcity of oats on the Prairies has pushed up cash prices, there has been a drop in futures prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), two buyers said. “The weakness in the futures definitely has nothing to do with cash prices in the country,” said Scott […]

Large oat production won’t move prices

Aug. 29, 2019 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Cash oats steady despite climb in futures

Jan. 25, 2018 at 5:25 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oats buyers filled for now, watching weather

Jul. 6, 2017 at 8:19 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie oats at tipping point

May. 17, 2017 at 6:23 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Wheat disease risk sees farmers looking to oats

Feb. 27, 2017 at 6:41 pm CST

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are showing an increased interest in seeding oats this spring, despite a lack of activity from a pricing standpoint, as quality concerns in wheat and barley have growers looking to other cereals. “We are seeing a huge influx of acres into oats,” said Scott Shiels, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oats’ buyers, sellers far apart on price

Mar. 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm CST

CNS Canada — Farmers with oats to sell and end-users willing to buy them are far apart in terms of price right now, limiting how much business is actually taking place. Major U.S. customers are well covered for the time being, “with enough to last for a few months worth […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Insights and Stories on Oats Acres

Demand pushes up cash prices for oats

Large oat production won’t move prices

Cash oats steady despite climb in futures

Oats buyers filled for now, watching weather

Prairie oats at tipping point

Wheat disease risk sees farmers looking to oats

Oats’ buyers, sellers far apart on price

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