Insights and Stories on Wheat Acres

Food production in Syria reported at all-time low

Nov. 15, 2016 at 2:13 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — Food production has dropped to an all-time low in Syria where millions of hungry civilians are struggling through their sixth winter in a war zone, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. Many farmers have had to abandon their land, unable to afford the soaring cost of seeds, […]

U.S. farmers surprisingly boost corn plantings, soy acres at record

Jun. 30, 2016 at 1:55 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Canada’s canola, pulse acres rise at grains’ expense

Jun. 29, 2016 at 10:45 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

Jun. 24, 2016 at 7:26 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

Jun. 9, 2016 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Erin DeBooy

Saskatchewan wheat crop enters crucial phase

May. 13, 2016 at 4:16 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Freezing temperatures are raising tensions for wheat growers in Saskatchewan as this year’s crop looks to survive a late blast of winter weather. The mercury dipped below 0 C in Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and Friday morning. Speaking Thursday afternoon, a regional crop specialist with the Saskatchewan […]

By Dave Sims

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

Apr. 22, 2016 at 12:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Increased durum acres in Canada may limit the upside potential as far as prices are concerned, but smaller spring wheat plantings will also limit the downside, according to a durum trader. Statistics Canada on Thursday pegged intended durum acres at 6.12 million acres, which would be up […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

Apr. 21, 2016 at 5:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers will be seeding record acres of peas and lentils this spring, as expected, but the increases to pulse crops are coming at the expense of canola — which saw acres come in below expectations in a report out from Statistics Canada. In its first acreage […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

Apr. 21, 2016 at 9:34 am CDT

Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola than expected, and will sow record-large areas with pulse crops, according to the government’s first farmer survey of crop sowings for 2016, released on Thursday. Wheat seedings are also expected to decline, but not as much as traders and analysts expected on […]

By Rod Nickel Simon Doyle

North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

Apr. 6, 2016 at 7:02 pm CDT

CNS Canada — North Dakota farmers will be seeding less spring wheat this year — but the acreage may not be down by as much as the U.S. Department of Agriculture now forecasts. In its Prospective Plantings report, released last Thursday, USDA forecast North Dakota spring wheat area for 2016 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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