Reading Time: 2 minutes Spring wheat and durum cash prices were moderately higher across the Canadian Prairies for the week ended Dec. 19. This was despite losses in Chicago and Kansas City wheat and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada projecting larger all wheat ending stocks for 2025/26. Minneapolis wheat bumped up on the week, lending some support to Canadian cash prices.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices
Feed Grains Weekly: Quieter demand pulls prices down
Reading Time: < 1 minute Feed prices for barley and wheat have pulled back a little following an upward swing that started in November and ended in early December, said Travis Ebens of CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, Alta.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids, U.S. futures down
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian wheat futures were down for the week ended Dec. 9, 2025 due to weaker U.S. futures and a stronger loonie.
USDA sees tighter U.S. corn stocks, soybeans and wheat unchanged
Reading Time: < 1 minute The USDA is forecasting tighter U.S. corn ending stocks for 2025/26 due to increased exports. The supply/demand balance sheets for soybeans and wheat were unchanged.
Feed Grain Weekly: Prices levelling as demand wanes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Soft demand has feed grain prices levelling off, said Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, Alta.
CBOT Weekly: Watching for Chinese soybean purchases
Reading Time: 2 minutes As activity at the Chicago Board of Trade shifts into holiday mode through the New Year, independent analyst Terry Reilly pointed to three things to watch over the next few weeks.
Calling for bigger crops ahead of StatCan report
Reading Time: 2 minutes Statistics Canada will release its first survey-based production estimates for the 2025/26 crop year on Dec. 4, with general expectations for upward revisions to most major crops from the model-based estimates in September. However, as StatCan has shown a tendency to underestimate production in its December reports, many analysts expect actual production may be revised upward in subsequent reports.
U.S. grains: Corn, wheat futures climb on Black Sea tensions
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago corn and wheat futures rose on Tuesday, lifted by worries about tensions in the Black Sea grain export region as well as cold weather slowing grain movement in the U.S. Midwest, analysts said. Soybeans were lower.
Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prices for feed barley and wheat have been trending higher lately, said analyst Jerry Klassen of Resilient Capital in Winnipeg.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring prices vary as durum nudges up
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spring wheat cash prices varied across the Prairies for the week ended Nov. 25, while those for durum were slightly higher. Losses in the United States wheat complex weighed on prices north of the border, while support came from a weaker Canadian dollar.
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