Insights and Stories on Prices

Feed weekly outlook: Bids hold firm in West

Oct. 2, 2020 at 2:33 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in Western Canada remain firm at the beginning of October, with a lack of significant farmer selling keeping the market underpinned as harvest wraps up across the Prairies. The barley harvest is mostly complete across the Prairies, but total yields and production remain to be […]

ICE weekly outlook: Canola rebounds on U.S. futures support

Sep. 30, 2020 at 5:40 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas, lentils see some strength

Sep. 29, 2020 at 3:58 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder market

Sep. 28, 2020 at 8:57 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Low acreage buoys mustard seed prices

Sep. 28, 2020 at 7:39 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed, reacting to futures and loonie

Sep. 25, 2020 at 9:43 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Thursday, as losses in U.S. futures were countered by support from a weakening Canadian dollar. The currency lost roughly a full cent during the week. Average Canada Western Red Spring (13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain prices on rise despite harvest

Sep. 24, 2020 at 12:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Feed barley and wheat prices in Western Canada have been showing some unusual strength in late September, with prices rising despite seasonal harvest pressure. “Right now we’ve been seeing a lot of talk about exports and the need for feed at feedlots,” said Erin Harakal, senior trader at […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea production expected up in 2021

Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:16 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Following an expected 11.4 per cent drop in Saskatchewan’s chickpea harvest this year, provincial pulse specialist Dale Risula is expecting an increase in 2021. In Statistics Canada’s most recent field crop report, issued last week, chickpea production in Saskatchewan was estimated to have dropped from 224,600 tonnes in […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Prices stronger after harvest

Sep. 17, 2020 at 3:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been higher as the harvest has concluded across most of the Canadian Prairies. “It feels like last week and this week, the harvest has wrapped up in many areas,” said Allen Pirness, a trader with Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. “That should switch the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Saskatchewan lentil crop projections raise skepticism

Sep. 17, 2020 at 3:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There’s a little skepticism towards Statistics Canada’s projections for this fall’s lentil crop in Saskatchewan. The federal agency on Monday pegged the province’s 2020 lentil crop to come in at around 2.61 million tonnes on about 3.73 million acres. That’s almost a 26 per cent jump in production […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm