Insights and Stories on Winter Wheat

U.S. grains: Wheat nears four-week low on weak export demand

Oct. 9, 2017 at 4:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures fell to a near four-week low on Monday on plentiful global inventories and weak demand for U.S. supplies, analysts said. Soybeans turned down after touching a two-week high and corn drifted lower on a day when U.S. government offices, including the Department of […]

Winter cereal growers in holding pattern as clouds loom

Sep. 14, 2017 at 7:55 pm CDT

By Terry Fries

Prairie wheat, barley commissions’ single checkoffs set

Jul. 7, 2017 at 2:49 pm CDT

By Staff

Early U.S. winter wheat harvest supports low-protein fears

May. 30, 2017 at 2:49 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Mixed conditions loom over Manitoba winter cereals

Apr. 12, 2017 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on outlook for Plains rains

Mar. 20, 2017 at 6:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Monday, led lower by a 1.9 per cent drop in K.C. hard red winter wheat amid forecasts for improving weather for crop development in key U.S. growing areas. “The U.S. Plains were dry over the weekend, but the next precip(itation) chance […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. wheat market watching weather closely

Mar. 14, 2017 at 6:44 pm CDT

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures posted sharp losses over the past few weeks, but values found support on Tuesday as weather forecasts provide nearby direction, according to an analyst. Minneapolis and Kansas City wheat contracts lost roughly US30-40 cents per bushel over the past month, as ample world supplies […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. farmers cut winter wheat acres to 108-year low

Jan. 12, 2017 at 12:56 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — U.S. farmers slashed their winter wheat plantings to the lowest in more than a century as supplies of the grain ballooned to a 29-year high, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday. USDA also dialed back its harvest estimates for the U.S. soybean and corn crops but […]

By Mark Weinraub

Greig: Lessons learned from Ontario crops’ pest pressures

Jan. 9, 2017 at 4:45 am CST

The warmer winter and subsequent drought defined the 2016 cropping season in Ontario, resulting in more disease and insect pressures and then challenges managing them. Three agronomists gave an overview of the 2016 cropping season at the SouthWest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, outlining challenges and wins for the year. Leanne […]

By John Greig

MGEX spring wheat futures pull away from winter wheat

Oct. 4, 2016 at 3:16 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Minneapolis spring wheat futures are pulling away from their winter wheat counterparts, as quality issues with the North American spring wheat crop bring in protein premiums, according to an analyst who said there was more room to the upside in spring wheat. Kansas City and Chicago winter […]