Reading Time: 2 minutes Planting progress greatly accelerated across Manitoba during the week ended May 12.
The province’s crop report released on May 14 showed that seeding was at 30 per cent completion, compared to just four per cent the week before.
Manitoba crop report: Seeding speeds up to normal pace
Pulse weekly: Yellow, green pea prices rise
Reading Time: 2 minutes India’s extension of tariff-free pea imports last month has caused a rise in Canadian prices, according to a Saskatchewan pulse merchant.
Pork market strong despite weak U.S. futures
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fears over avian flu spreading to pigs in the United States and greater hog slaughter are causing lean hog prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to fall to three-month lows, according to a livestock economist.
Tighter stocks, production in USDA report
Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) May World Agricultural Supply/Demand Estimates (WASDE) released May 10 featured the first production and ending stocks estimates for the 2024-25 marketing year.
Oat prices rise to five-month highs
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oats futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) rose to their highest levels in five months in early May as strength in wheat provided support.
CBOT Weekly: Focus on weather interrupted by USDA report
Reading Time: 2 minutes A grain rally at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) during the week ended May 8 has seemed to run out of steam.
Feed grain weekly: Seeding well underway in Alberta
Reading Time: 2 minutes Feed grain bids in the Lethbridge area were finding some support in early May as farmers in the region focus their attention on spring seeding.
Pulse weekly: Moisture needed for Saskatchewan pulse crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute Seeding has already started in parts of Saskatchewan, while many areas are still waiting on more moisture, according to the province’s pulse specialist.
ICE Weekly: Canola rises sharply
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a show of independent strength, canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) had one of its best weeks this calendar year during the week ended April 24.
Canary seed growers optimistic for 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes David Nobbs, chair of the Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan and pulse merchant for Purely Canada Foods, said exports are on pace for 110,000 to 120,000 tonnes in 2023-24, compared to 150,000 to 160,000 in a typical year. Statistics Canada (StatCan) projected 125,000 tonnes of exports for 2023-24, compared to 147,000 the previous year.
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