Insights and Stories on Wheat Harvest

Dec. 4, 2023 at 9:35 am CST

Canadian farmers will harvest more wheat and canola than was expected several months ago, as crops rallied from dry conditions that threatened yields, a government report showed on Monday.

By Reuters, Rod Nickel

Aug. 23, 2023 at 10:06 am CDT

MarketsFarm – Dry conditions across crop-growing areas in Manitoba helped the province’s annual harvest get off to a good start during the week ended Aug. 20. Much of the eastern, southern and central regions received two millimetres of precipitation at most during the week with several locations receiving no rainfall […]

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm

Jun. 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm CDT

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will create a global wheat shortage for at least three seasons by keeping much of the Ukrainian crop from markets, pushing prices to record levels, Ukraine’s agriculture minister told Reuters. Ukraine, sometimes known as Europe’s breadbasket, has had its maritime grain export […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Aug. 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are sitting on a very large wheat crop this year, but the moisture that helped boost yields also caused disease issues and supplies of higher-quality wheat may still be in short supply. While the spring wheat harvest is just getting started and it’s hard to […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oct. 1, 2015 at 7:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers are in the final stages of harvesting the 2015 wheat crop, and while yields continue to beat earlier expectations, there’s a distinct quality difference between crops harvested early and those harvested late. “In our country, all of the grain was top grade, but anything that […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin