Insights and Stories on Saskatchewan

Klassen: Larger supplies of backgrounded cattle weigh on feeder complex

Feb. 7, 2023 at 2:14 am CST

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets traded steady to $3 lower. Calf prices were quoted $5 lower to $3 higher. Backgrounded cattle appeared to have a softer tone as more numbers come on the market. Usually, the bulk of the volume for backgrounded cattle are animals over 850 […]

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat bids edge higher

Feb. 3, 2023 at 8:11 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie markets hold steady

Feb. 2, 2023 at 8:04 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Feeder market percolates higher amid finicky buyers

Jan. 31, 2023 at 8:05 pm CST

By Jerry Klassen

Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Jan. 31, 2023 at 3:55 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed as U.S. futures rise

Jan. 27, 2023 at 8:30 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canada Western Red Spring and Canada Western Amber Durum wheat prices declined while bids for Canada Prairie Spring Red rose during the week ended Jan. 26. Wheat futures in the U.S. fell Monday, with the March contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) dropping 21 to 29 […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices continue downward

Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:17 pm CST

MarketsFarm — As colder temperatures descend onto the Prairies, buying activity for feed barley and wheat was just as frigid. “A lot of guys are fairly caught up with purchasing,” said Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities Inc. in Lethbridge. “You see the prices of wheat and barley start to trickle […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Saskatchewan holds Crown grazing rents at last year’s levels

Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:00 am CST

Cattle producers leasing Crown land for grazing in Saskatchewan won’t see a rate hike this year and may be eligible for a significant rate cut. The provincial government announced Wednesday it has frozen the rates charged to producers who lease Crown grazing land in 2023 at their 2022 level. The […]

By Dave Bedard

Mosaic says stockpiles too high to restart Saskatchewan mine

Jan. 25, 2023 at 5:39 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. does not currently see the right market conditions to restart its idled Saskatchewan potash mine, with high inventories in the U.S. and Brazil and cold weather slowing trains from Canada, CEO Joc O’Rourke said Wednesday. Mosaic curtailed potash production in December at […]

By Rod Nickel

Prairies’ warmer spell to be usurped by arctic front

Jan. 24, 2023 at 2:03 pm CST

MarketsFarm — While the Prairies have so far this month experienced rather non-January-like temperatures, a cold front coming south from the Arctic will soon descend on the region, according to Scott Kehler, president and chief scientist of Weatherlogics in Winnipeg. “What we are seeing is a big change in the […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm