Insights and Stories on Production

Canola crop expectations vary ahead of StatsCan report

Aug. 26, 2020 at 7:22 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada is due to publish its first production estimates for Canada’s 2020 growing season on Monday (Aug. 31). Late-season hot temperatures and a lack of rain may cause Canada’s canola production to be lower than originally expected, according to some market participants. Earlier in the growing season, […]

Red Deer hog plant books first COVID case

Aug. 18, 2020 at 8:22 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

ICE weekly outlook: Canola facing resistance ahead of harvest

Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:28 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. farmers to harvest record-large corn crop, second-largest soy crop, USDA says

Aug. 12, 2020 at 12:37 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: WASDE largely neutral for soy, corn

Jun. 11, 2020 at 5:34 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

COVID concerns weigh on chicken farmers, processors

Jun. 6, 2020 at 3:04 am CDT

Ottawa — Chicken Farmers of Canada say they’ve faced a “sharp decline” in sales as a result of a significant drop in food services, which represents roughly 40 per cent of their market. CFC chair Benoît Fontaine warned federal MPs as much during a virtual meeting of the Commons standing […]

By D.C. Fraser

U.S. livestock: June live cattle limit up on soaring beef prices

May. 12, 2020 at 7:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed higher on Tuesday, with nearby contracts rising the daily maximum, as surging wholesale beef prices and expectations U.S. beef and pork production would drop spurred speculative buying, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) June live cattle futures settled up 4.5 cents, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Global wheat, corn, soy production expected to increase

May. 12, 2020 at 3:45 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Global crop production in the latest monthly supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to increase for wheat, corn and soybeans. USDA released its world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) on Tuesday. The expectation is that global wheat production will be […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. corn production expected way up in USDA’s May WASDE

May. 12, 2020 at 3:12 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There will be sharp increases in the United States’ 2020-21 corn production — and especially in ending stocks, according to the latest monthly supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department issued its latest world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) on Tuesday. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia.

Global grain production to exceed 2.2 billion tonnes, IGC predicts

May. 1, 2020 at 8:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The International Grain Council (IGC) has revised its latest monthly forecast of global grain production down slightly. The IGC projected global production in 2020-21 to hit 2.218 billion tonnes its April 30 report, for a drop of five million tonnes from its March estimate. The reduction was due […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm