Insights and Stories on Prices

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices steady into harvest

Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:56 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The chickpea harvest is underway in some areas of the Prairies, including southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, where pulse crops were planted earlier due to drier spring weather. So far, the chickpea crop has seen co-operative weather conditions. “As we go along with this sunshine and heat, the […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise with U.S. beef prices

Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:27 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Canadian canola prices spike as shippers find back door to China

Aug. 10, 2020 at 2:25 pm CDT

By Hallie Gu Rod Nickel

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids drop ahead of harvest

Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:08 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea market under pressure

Aug. 4, 2020 at 9:48 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Belated new crop props up barley

Jul. 16, 2020 at 7:41 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Delayed spring seeding means new-crop feed barley has a few more weeks left in the field, which is keeping old-crop prices strong into summertime. “We were expecting new-crop barley in the end of July, but with the later seeding date this year we’re not expecting to see new […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Green Plains sues ADM, alleging ethanol market manipulation

Jul. 15, 2020 at 5:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Green Plains Inc., one of the biggest U.S. ethanol producers, sued Archer Daniels Midland on Tuesday, accusing the global grain trader of manipulating the price of the biofuel to profit from its positions in the derivatives market. Green Plains filed the proposed class action with the […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures drift lower on beef demand worries

Jul. 14, 2020 at 7:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Live cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) fell on Tuesday for a second straight session on weak wholesale beef prices and worries about consumer demand, given uncertainty about the health of the U.S. economy, traders said. CME August live cattle futures settled down 0.85 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Feed weekly outlook: Prices to soften as new crop year nears

Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:00 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Prices for feed barley and wheat will decline as the new crop year gets closer, according to Erin Harakal, senior trader with Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. Harakal said the new crop should start coming off of the fields around the end of August and the beginning of […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil prices off pandemic peak

Jul. 7, 2020 at 10:45 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Lentil prices received a bit of a bump earlier in the year from peak pandemic panic-buying, but have subsided in recent weeks. “At the beginning, a lot of people were buying, which led to a spike in prices,” explained Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. “That scarcity […]

By MarketsFarm Team