Insights and Stories on Prices

Dry weather may cut into Canadian crop prospects, AAFC says

May. 21, 2021 at 9:25 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Dry weather conditions across Western Canada could cut into production prospects in the region, according to updated supply/demand tables released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. “Extremely dry conditions prevail in large parts of Western Canada, allowing for rapid seeding progress which is trending ahead of normal; however, […]

India’s federal police probe bosses of two fertilizer companies

May. 20, 2021 at 3:37 pm CDT

By rajendra-jadhav

Feed weekly outlook: Saskatchewan barley price spikes, drops

May. 20, 2021 at 3:11 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures up with cash markets

May. 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Tensions build over Argentina’s beef export ban

May. 19, 2021 at 1:41 am CDT

By nicolas-misculin

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

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures fall on long liquidation

May. 13, 2021 at 6:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures fell 2.5 per cent on Thursday, following broad declines in grain and livestock markets that analysts attributed to fund-driven long liquidation and technical selling after recent highs. “It seems it was a risk-off day all across the board… It was more of […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Feed weekly outlook: Falling futures suggest first cracks in lofty market

May. 13, 2021 at 5:22 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A sharp drop in corn and wheat futures prices at the Chicago Board of Trade over the past week could be the sign of the first cracks in the western Canadian feed grain market. That said, tight supplies and uncertainty over new-crop grain production remain supportive. “With the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures end mixed

May. 12, 2021 at 9:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed mixed on Wednesday, with the benchmark June contract easing in a light round of profit-taking while robust beef prices continued to underpin the market, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange June live cattle futures settled down 0.025 cent at 118.6 cents/lb., retreating […]

By Julie Ingwersen

ICE weekly outlook: Rain needed to bolster canola crop

May. 12, 2021 at 6:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm | Rain — specifically, the lack thereof — is quickly becoming the key issue for canola values, according to Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg. Until now, dry conditions across much of the Prairies have not been much a factor in canola prices, he said. “We’ve got to […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm