Reading Time: 2 minutes Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved lower during the week ended April 24, but other wheat varieties held firm despite losses in the United States futures.
CWRS bids dip with U.S. futures, CPSR firm
Spring wheat prices for week ended April 24
Feed Grain Weekly: Prices rise on seasonality
C$3 to C$5/tonne weekly increases reported
Reading Time: < 1 minute Feed prices in the Lethbridge area during the week ended April 24 were slightly higher as growers get deeper into springtime.
CBOT Weekly: Planting pace outweighs Trump comments
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rapid planting paces for major U.S. crops outweighed President Donald Trump's comments on trade with China at the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended April 23.
Feed Grain Weekly: More grain purchased before seeding starts
Reading Time: 2 minutes A tariff reprieve has allowed for more cattle to move freely across the Canada/U.S. border and has necessitated the need for more grain at feedlots.
CBOT Weekly: Easter rains could spring delays on planting progress
Trump a wildcard
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the United States weather forecast calling for rain on April 18 and 21, planting progress could come to a quick stop, said broker Scott Capinegro of AgMarket.net in Chicago.
APK-Inform issues Ukraine forecast for 2025/26
Cold snap halts spring seeding
Reading Time: 2 minutes As spring planting continues in Ukraine, its agriculture ministry and consultancy APK-Inform issued their respective crop forecasts. The reports were issued just as Ukraine was still in a bitter cold snap that brought snow to most parts of the country.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Movement in cash prices mixed
Most spring wheat rises, durum slightly lower
Reading Time: 2 minutes While Western Canadian cash prices for spring wheat were mostly higher during the week ended April 10, those for amber durum eased back.
CBOT Weekly: April S/D report generates few changes
Trump tariffs on, off days prior to report
Reading Time: 2 minutes Very little changed in the monthly supply and demand report from the United States Department of Agriculture on April 10 from its March estimates, including the note at the top stating the data considered the trade policies at the time of publication.
European wheat to benefit from U.S.-China trade war: Strategie Grains
U.S. trade war could make EU wheat more attractive to China
Reading Time: 2 minutes European Union soft wheat is set to benefit from the escalating trade war between the United States and China, consultancy Strategie Grains said, as it raised its output estimates for all major EU cereals this year due to improved growing conditions.
Feed Grain Weekly: Tariff fears on cattle leads to weak demand
Expect slow spring, summer
Reading Time: < 1 minute As tariff issues continue to hover around the globe, there has been a sharp reduction in the number of cattle in Canadian feedlots, said Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge. And that has reduced the demand for feed grains in Western Canada to a trickle.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
