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Prairie wheat weekly outlook: U.S. futures raise Western Canadian bids

Total wheat production expected to increase to 33.3 million tonnes; total wheat carryout to 4.2 million

The relatively low prices created some interest in the export market. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported net wheat export sales of 451,400 tonnes in its weekly report on Jan. 25, down 36 per cent from the previous week but up 45 per cent from the four-week average. Recent severe cold weather in the northwestern U.S. Plains may have also caused some crop damage.



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Farmers demand incentives for environmental changes

A final strategy was to be released in late 2023 but feds now say it will be sometime this year

A federal environmental strategy for the agriculture sector should be viewed through an economic lens, says a report from consultations on the proposed Sustainable Agriculture Strategy.

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Australia achieves average wheat, barley harvests

Total exports down, but percentage going to China increased

Australian wheat and barley came away with average crops for 2023/24, as the threat of dryness caused by an El Niño posed a major challenge, according to the United Stated Department of Agriculture attaché in the country’s capital of Canberra.





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U.S. grains: Corn up 1.3 per cent on South America weather worries, softer dollar

Wheat futures ended up 2.4 per cent on technical buying and weakness in the dollar

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures rose 1.3 per cent on Wednesday as uncertainty about crop prospects in South America and a setback in the dollar triggered a round of short-covering and lifted the benchmark corn contract Cv1 from three-year lows set last week, traders said.

Farmers protesting in Toulouse, France, on January 16, 2024, with tractors bearing placards that read ‘Macron still an effort, soon all farmers will be dead’. Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Reuters

Explainer: Why are French farmers protesting?

Many farmers feeling pinched by costs, imports, environmental regulations and disregarded by French society

French farmers are blocking roads across the country to demand government action to address numerous grievances, as protests in the European Union's agricultural sector spread. Here are some of the issues that have prompted the growing protest movement and how the government could respond.