Crops & Crop Production Guide

AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 3 hours ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made only a handful of alterations for its November report on principal field crops. The only changes AAFC made were with all wheat and durum exports plus domestic use for all wheat and corn in the estimates released on Nov. 24. The report had been initially scheduled for Nov. 19, but AAFC said they chose to delay it until after the United States Department of Agriculture issued its November supply and demand estimates following the U.S. government shutdown.

Cereals, Markets, News, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

USDA predicts more wheat in Australia, smaller crops elsewhere

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 3 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia will grow more wheat in 2025/26 than earlier expectations, but production will likely be down on the year in Turkey and Kazakhstan, according to several attaché reports released by the United States Department of Agriculture on Nov. 20, as it continues to catch up following the federal government shutdown.

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

By Adam Peleshaty 4 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian chickpeas saw stable prices and its largest crop in two decades.

Canola, Markets

Funds held large net short in canola before U.S. shutdown

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 4 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Speculative fund traders were adding to a recently-established net short position in canola at the end of September, said the first Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since the end of the U.S. federal government shutdown.

Crops, Markets, Reuters

IGC raises 2025/26 world wheat, corn crop forecasts

By Reuters 4 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Global stocks of grain are set to increase during the 2025/26 season for the first time in four years, the International Grains Council said on Thursday as it raised its forecasts for both wheat and corn crops.

Canola, Markets, News

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 5 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian canola futures are poised to slip back in the short term, although the oilseed could climb slowly higher in the long term, said Jamie Wilton, trader with R.J. O’Brien in Winnipeg, Man.

Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly: Soybeans watching export news

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 5 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade climbed to their highest levels in a year-and-a-half on Nov. 18, as optimism over increasing sales to China provided support. However, more business will be needed to sustain the upward move, with traders uncertain whether the stated targets will be reached.

Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat mixed, durum lower

By Adam Peleshaty 5 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian spring wheat prices were mixed, while durum prices were down on Nov. 18, 2025.

Crops

Coalition pledges funds for barley variety development

By Geralyn Wichers November 18, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Barley Research Coalition has pledged nearly $1.15 million in funding to work with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada on the development of new barley varieties.

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Brazil to reap record soy crop in 2025/2026, increase exports

By Ana Mano, Reuters November 13, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute Brazil’s Conab said the country will reap a record soybean crop of 177.6 million tons in the 2025/2026 harvest year, according to data released on Thursday.

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