Cereals & Production Tips

Ample supply keeps oats under pressure

By GFM Network News June 8, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian oat crops are in reasonably good shape following recent rains, though prices may find themselves under pressure as end-users are well covered for the time being. Farmers planned on seeding about 3.15 million acres of oats in the country in 2018, down only slightly from the 3.2 million seeded the previous […] Read more

Distillation towers at North West Terminal's biofuel facility.

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Finding a use for wheat with fusarium

North West Bio-Energy  has been turning wheat  into ethanol since 2009

By Lisa Guenther June 5, 2018

Got fusarium? Chances are North West Terminal in Unity, Sask., can use that wheat. Next door to the terminal is a bioproducts plant, which is run by North West Terminal’s sister company, North West Bio-Energy. Since 2009, North West Bio-Energy has been producing ethanol. Today it also produces industrial-grade alcohol. The distillation process can handle […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Feed grains slip, but still solid overall

By GFM Network News June 1, 2018

CNS Canada — Feed barley prices may have come down slightly from their highs earlier in the spring, but remain solid overall, according to an Edmonton-based merchant. Dry weather and the late spring created some uncertainty in the market, and led to opportunities for some growers, said Samantha Metcalfe, a grain trader with Market Master […] Read more

A science-based grading system is one factor in Canadian wheat and durum’s competitive edge in the world market.

Cereals, Crops, Features

What grain customers want to know about Canadian wheat

From gluten to glyphosate: what end users want to know about our wheat

By Lisa Guenther May 28, 2018

Customers in far-flung places such as Japan may seem far removed from a western Canadian farm. But those customers are keenly interested in how Canadian wheat and durum is grown and handled before it arrives at their mills, bakeries, or other processing facilities. In fact, Japanese bakers are quite aware of different Canadian wheat varieties, […] Read more

Fresh bread in Egypt. (Goldream/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Top court in Egypt permits wheat with trace ergot

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 28, 2018

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s top administrative court has ruled that the country should accept wheat with marginal levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a local newspapers said on Sunday, freezing a lower court order to ban the fungus entirely which had vexed traders. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, baffled grain markets when […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices hang tight, await new crop

By GFM Network News May 24, 2018

CNS Canada — The thought of sizzling days near the end of May 2017 is helping keep feed barley prices in Western Canada well supported, according to a market-watcher. “There is that memory of last year’s drought and seeing temperatures in the high 20s and 30s at the end of May,” said Allan Pirness of […] Read more

Cereals, Features

Niche market wheats are coming soon

Reduced-gluten wheat just the first of several geared to consumer tastes

By Lee Hart May 24, 2018

While your everyday, even high quality, hard red spring wheat isn’t doing so well in the marketplace right now, a biotech company in Davis, California, is launching a new reduced-gluten HRSW. Arcadia Biosciences also has other wheats with distinctive health-benefit traits in its pipeline. Arcadia is hopeful that introducing these non-GMO traits into wheat will […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain prices start to soften

By GFM Network News May 17, 2018

CNS Canada — After a winter with tight supplies leading to a feed grain price rally in Western Canada, prices are starting to back off. “It’s been breaking free a little bit. Kind of surprisingly this year it took till seeding time to see that happen. We’ve seen markets rally right up till May,” said […] Read more

A wall in the medina (ancient city quarter) of Rabat, Morocco’s capital. (Cia.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Morocco gives millers incentives to use domestic wheat

By GFM Network News May 11, 2018

Rabat | Reuters — Morocco on Friday announced a set of incentives for local millers to opt for domestic wheat instead of imports. They include a flat rate subsidy of 10 dirhams (C$1.37) per 100 kilograms of soft wheat to millers using local wheat, the ministry of agriculture said in a statement. The benefits also […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

U.S. wheat stocks bigger than expected, trade watching weather

By GFM Network News May 10, 2018

CNS Canada — A larger-than-expected wheat ending stocks forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture weighed on the country’s wheat futures Thursday, with attention now squarely on weather conditions. The government agency pegged wheat carryout for the upcoming 2018-19 marketing year at 955 million bushels, about 30 million above average trade guesses. Total wheat production […] Read more

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