Insights and Stories on Prices

ICE weekly outlook: Canola futures at two-year highs

Sep. 16, 2020 at 5:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts climbed to their strongest levels in two years during the week ended Wednesday, but could be nearing their highs for the time being as harvest pressure should start weighing on values. “We’re running into the top end on the monthly and weekly charts,” said […]

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil crop expected to spike in Alberta

Sep. 15, 2020 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Fababeans staying on field

Sep. 10, 2020 at 4:19 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Klassen: Yearling markets mixed

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:35 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. grains: Chinese buying, crop doubts push soy to two-year high

Sep. 4, 2020 at 5:06 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Feed weekly outlook: Prices gain strength

Sep. 3, 2020 at 3:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Harvest activity in the western Canadian Prairies had depressed feed grain prices at the end of August, but prices have recovered slightly. “There’s been a bit of a break in harvest activity,” Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge said. Producers in southern Alberta had been harvesting […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Large Canadian crops expected

Sep. 1, 2020 at 8:27 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canada will have grown a record-large pea crop in 2020 and possibly the second-largest lentil crop ever, according to preliminary estimates from Statistics Canada, released Monday. Using satellite imagery and model-based yield estimates, the government agency pegged the 2020-21 Canadian field pea crop at 4.996 million tonnes. That […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Live cattle consolidate up off one-month low

Sep. 1, 2020 at 7:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Tuesday rose for a second consecutive session as the market consolidated after touching a one-month low on Monday, brokers said. Weakness in the cash market for U.S. cattle has hung over futures prices recently, but some traders said they […]

By Tom Polansek

Organic price quotes: Late August

Sep. 1, 2020 at 2:45 pm CDT

Read more: Organic crops in good shape ahead of harvest

By OrganicBiz

Organic crops in good shape ahead of harvest

Aug. 31, 2020 at 1:16 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass Glacier FarmMedia staff Organic commodity producers are expecting large crops in good condition ahead of the 2020 harvest season. “I’m hearing most crops are very good, especially the cereals,” said Laura Telford, organics sector development specialist with the government of Manitoba. Recent dryness in Manitoba won’t have […]

By OrganicBiz