Insights and Stories on Planting

Plenty of plantings, bids scarce

Jun. 2, 2023 at 1:56 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty Glacier FarmMedia staff While organic growers are busy planting their crops, buyers are having a wait-and-see attitude before putting forward any price bids. Warm and dry weather on the Prairies has helped spring seeding advance quickly over the past month and growers are hopeful that recent conditions […]

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba crops get good start but need rain

May. 30, 2023 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat up off two-year low, pulls corn higher

May. 23, 2023 at 6:46 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: North Dakota corn growers switch to soy, sunflower

May. 17, 2023 at 5:46 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat up on Black Sea deal doubts

May. 4, 2023 at 4:15 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison

Rapeseed production expected down in EU

May. 3, 2023 at 3:26 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Rapeseed production in the European Union (EU) is expected to see a small decrease in the 2023-24 marketing year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) European Union attaché in Vienna. In a Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report released Wednesday, the EU’s 2023-24 rapeseed crop is […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Seeding to start in Manitoba, Saskatchewan

May. 2, 2023 at 1:35 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With the calendar turning to May and temperatures expected to surpass 20 C this week, pulse seedings are set to begin for parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. “Right now, we’re still in a bit of a holding pattern,” said Manitoba provincial pulse specialist Dennis Lange. “We haven’t really […]

By Adam Peleshaty

ICE weekly outlook: StatCan’s canola area estimate questioned

Apr. 27, 2023 at 3:27 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada on Wednesday released its first survey-based seeding intentions report for the 2023-24 marketing year, reporting an anticipated 0.9 per cent rise in canola acres, to 21.6 million. The figure occupied the lower end of trade expectations, but StatCan recently adopted a new methodology of conducting the […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Grain area to increase this year

Apr. 27, 2023 at 3:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Early signs point to increased Canadian feed grain production in 2023-24, with record corn acreage intentions and increases in both barley and wheat area on the year, according to the latest estimates from Statistics Canada. Planted corn area in the country is forecast at 3.725 million acres in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. rain, StatCan report biggest influences

Apr. 26, 2023 at 4:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The three to five inches of rain received Wednesday in Kansas and Oklahoma have put pressure on Kansas City and Chicago wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to broker Ryan Ettner of Allendale Inc. Added to that, Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) report on prospective plantings, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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