Crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian wheat bids were mostly lower during the week ended Sept. 4, 2025 due to weather and potential high yields worldwide.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Wheat bids pressured on multiple fronts
Conservatives call for approval of emergency strychnine use
Poison used for pest populations of gophers was phased out over the first half of the 2020s.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal Conservatives called for the government to authorize emergency use of the poison strychnine against infestations of gophers.
Saskatchewan harvest advances, but behind five-year pace
Lack of rain spurs progress
Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan farmers advanced their harvest 11 points during the week ended Sept. 1, bringing it to 23 per cent complete. However, that’s still 17 points behind the five-year average despite dry conditions throughout most of the province.
Saskatchewan root researcher honoured by Royal Society of Canada
Reading Time: 2 minutes Leon Kochian, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Global Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan received a fellowship from the Royals Society of Canada. Kochian has spent four decades studying root architecture.
Feed Grain Weekly: Barley prices stay steady for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton said feed barley prices have stayed put over the past week.
Manitoba Crop Report: Harvest nearly one-third complete
Fall rye, winter wheat near completion
Reading Time: 2 minutes Despite varied amounts of rainfall, Manitoba's harvest advanced to 29 per cent as of Sept. 1, 2025.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola looking at C$580
‘Lack of bullishness’ says trader
Reading Time: 2 minutes Without the Chinese market, it’s only a matter of time before canola futures are poised to break below C$600 per tonne in its November contract, said Phil Speiss, trader with RBC Dominion Securities in Winnipeg.
Pulse Weekly: Canadian pulse production to rise in 2025-26
Reading Time: < 1 minute Statistics Canada projected greater production for dry peas, lentils and chickpeas, as well as declines in dry beans, in its satellite/model-based crop estimates released on Aug. 28, 2025.
Alberta Crop Report: Clear weather aids harvest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Clear skies allowed Alberta producers to advance their harvesting operations during the week ended Aug. 26, 2025.
Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back
Expected to drop passed last year’s lows
Reading Time: 2 minutes As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.
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