Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a healthy, high-protein crop option, and some growers in Western Canada have already given quinoa a try, in part because it helps break blackleg and sclerotinia disease cycles in canola. Though while well suited to the Prairie climate, which is similar to its ancestral home in the Andes of South America, hot summer days […] Read more
Prairie producers keen on quinoa
Growers across the Western Canada have been giving the South American import a try
Feed weekly outlook: Markets facing uncertainty
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are facing some uncertainty amid tight domestic supplies and reports of transportation issues bringing up corn from the United States. “It’s very strange,” said Susanne Leclerc of MarketMaster Ltd. in Alberta. “You see stories like that (reporting on feedlots running low on grain), then you talk to […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Status quo for now, but change coming
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Feed grains in Western Canada have been holding close to the status quo for the last little while, but that’s likely to change, according to Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. He pointed to increases in corn and wheat this week in U.S. futures markets, in which corn has gained about […] Read more
Oat prices, acres to rise in 2022, analyst says
Reading Time: 3 minutes MarketsFarm — An independent crop market analyst told Saskatchewan oat growers he is bullish for the crop in 2022. Brennan Turner, founder and former CEO of online crop marketing platforms FarmLead and Combyne Ag, delivered a presentation at the Saskatchewan Oat Development Commission’s (SaskOats) annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Wednesday. Turner, a Foam Lake […] Read more
Prairie cash wheat: Stronger crop prospects, loonie lower bids
MGEX, K.C. wheat down on week
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s projected increases for domestic and worldwide wheat ending stocks, along with a strengthening Canadian dollar, brought pressure onto western Canadian wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. In its monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report on Wednesday, USDA showed a projected 1.78 million-tonne rise in […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Alberta bids see slight gains
Reading Time: 1 minute MarketsFarm — Alberta feedlots are only buying feed barley and wheat on a hand-to-mouth basis as demand remains unchanged, according to a local trader. “A lot of the feedlots we work with are buying what they needed and getting covered,” said Agfinity Inc. senior trader Erin Harakal from Stony Plain, Alta. High-delivered bids are $12.93 […] Read more
Taliban increase payment in wheat as economic crisis deepens
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kabul | Reuters — Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said on Tuesday it was expanding its ‘food for work’ program, in which it uses donated wheat to pay thousands of public sector employees instead of cash as a financial crisis intensifies. Wheat, largely donated by India to the previous U.S.-backed Kabul government, is being used to pay […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Feedlots, elevators filled with corn
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — As 2022 begins, feed grain markets in Alberta have been “status quo,” according to a grain buyer. “There’s a lot of grain that has been pre-contracted in terms of corn coming in from the United States,” said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. “Lots of priority has been towards execution, making […] Read more
Prairie cash wheat: Bids down despite cold weather, Russian tensions
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm – Despite a wide array of factors which would have provided support to prices, Prairie wheat was in the red for the week ended Dec. 30. With areas already experiencing dry conditions, a large cold snap hit both the Prairie provinces in Canada and the Southern Plains in the United States. For the latter, […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Prices to remain steady until spring
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm – Feed grains in Western Canada are seeing limited trading during the holiday season, but the demand for feed remains at feedlots. “The trade has been very slow. We’re kind of just in execution mode right now,” said Evan Peterson, trader for JGL Commodities in Moose Jaw, Sask. “Stocks are tight on the farm, […] Read more
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