Insights and Stories on Prices

Klassen: Feeder cattle divorce from futures’ direction

Apr. 26, 2021 at 9:55 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were relatively unchanged. Higher-quality yearlings and calves were steady to $4 higher in Alberta and Saskatchewan; in Manitoba, yearlings traded $2-$4 lower while calves were $3-$5 higher. Domestic cattle markets appeared to divorce from feeder and live cattle futures. June live […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb on USDA report

Apr. 26, 2021 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

More canola, less wheat expected ahead of StatsCan report

Apr. 23, 2021 at 7:08 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Prices taper off ahead of report

Apr. 23, 2021 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures sag on technical selling

Apr. 21, 2021 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Klassen: Feeder cattle markets experience volatility

Apr. 20, 2021 at 7:29 pm CDT

Compared to the previous week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3-$4 on either side of week-ago levels. Prices were quite variable across the Prairies with four main factors influencing buyer sentiment. First, the eastern Prairie regions experienced adverse winter weather. Auction barns in Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan had smaller […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Cattle bounce after eight-session skid

Apr. 20, 2021 at 7:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed higher on Tuesday for the first time in nine sessions as brisk demand for beef and a rally in lean hog futures prompted a round of bargain-buying, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange June live cattle settled up 0.6 cent at 119.2 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

More flax expected in 2021

Apr. 20, 2021 at 2:50 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Flax prices in Western Canada have remained strong and are down little off their recent highs, according to Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada Corp. at Yorkton, Sask. Shiels believes those good prices will lead producers to plant more acres of flax this spring — but not the […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grains firm, watching new-crop weather

Apr. 15, 2021 at 4:56 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Tight barley supplies in Western Canada continue to keep the feed market underpinned, with gains in the U.S. corn market also providing support to grain markets in general. “We’re starting to see a bit of an early weather market in the U.S.,” Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn futures retreat from peak above $6

Apr. 15, 2021 at 4:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures closed mixed on Thursday, with the most-active contract easing on pressure from commercial hedging after spiking above US$6 a bushel for the first time since June 2013 during overnight trading. But concerns about seeding delays due to cold weather in the U.S. Midwest […]

By Mark Weinraub