Cereals & Production Tips

Prairie CWRS bids firm, CPSR holds steady

By GFM Network News August 25, 2014

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) were firmer, while Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat bids were holding steady during the two weeks ended Monday. Average spot bids for CWRS (13.5 per cent protein) across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta came in at around C$197 per tonne ($5.36 per bushel). […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Spring Wheat

Canadian durum exports still the best, but more consistency needed

By GFM Network News August 25, 2014

International durum buyers visiting the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) recently said they are seeing less consistency in their purchases from Canada since the end of single-desk marketing. “Sometimes we see peaks in proteins or test weight,” said Italian broker Miria Filomena Balletta in an interview. “Not just in the same cargo, but in the […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

GRAINS: Nearby soy rallies on low old-crop supply; MGEX wheat jumps

By GFM Network News August 22, 2014

Reuters — Nearby U.S. soybean futures climbed to a one-week high on Friday as U.S. processors scrambled to find scarce old-crop supplies, with the start of the next harvest still at least a month away in the Midwest. MGEX spring wheat futures touched a two-week high amid concerns about excessive rains hurting crops in key […] Read more

Cereals

CIF Gulf Grain-Nearby soybean basis continue surge on processor demand

By GFM Network News August 22, 2014

CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) – U.S. CIF Gulf soybeans nearby basis markets were sharply higher, continuing a trend this week, as processors encouraged farmers to sell any remaining beans left from last year’s harvest to meet their immediate crush needs, traders said on Friday. A slower-than-expected start to the southern harvest, typically the first new-crop beans available to processors and exporters, […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

France forced to import wheat as rain hits crop quality

By GFM Network News August 21, 2014

Paris | Reuters –– France’s rain-hit wheat crop has delivered the first shock of the 2014-15 season: the EU’s top grower and exporter is buying Lithuanian and British milling wheat to mix with its unusually poor-grade crop to meet contracts signed before the harvest. French exports exceed those of Britain and Lithuania on the world […] Read more

Barley, Crops

Big Rock Brewery founder Ed McNally, 89

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 21, 2014

The lawyer and farmer who founded Calgary’s Big Rock Brewery has died at age 89. Ed McNally, who founded what’s now Canada’s second largest Canadian-owned brewery in 1985, had retired as the company’s CEO in 2012, remaining its “chairman emeritus.” The cause of his death late Tuesday was not released. “Ed leaves behind a legacy […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

European quality issues support Prairie durum bids

By GFM Network News August 21, 2014

CNS Canada — Durum bids in Western Canada are showing strength relative to other wheat classes, with premiums for higher-quality supplies expected to remain in place or widen as the industry awaits Canada’s crop. Canada’s 2014-15 durum crop is estimated at 4.9 million tonnes by Statistics Canada, which compares with 6.5 million the previous year. […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Oats, Weather

Oats prices remain steady, crop quality questionable

By GFM Network News August 15, 2014

CNS Canada — While this year’s oats crop in Canada may not be above-average, prices are staying relatively strong in comparison to other crops, from where one southern Manitoba merchant sits. “They’ve held in very strong relative to corn and wheat,” said Ryan McKnight, a grain merchant for Linear Grain at Carman, Man. “Out of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Further losses likely for falling spring wheat futures

By GFM Network News August 14, 2014

CNS Canada — Spring wheat futures at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange hit fresh contract lows over the past week, and are seen as likely to have more room to the downside as North America’s spring wheat harvest is just getting started. However, the Chicago and Kansas City winter wheat contracts are due for a post-harvest […] Read more

A new biocontrol is proposed to use fungal microbes to prevent healthy wheat heads (top) from damage by fusarium head blight (bottom). (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, Crops, Weather

New biocontrol to fight fusarium in cereals

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News August 14, 2014

Using fire to fight fire, a new biocontrol product could be commercialized for use against fusarium head blight in a year or two. Adjuvants Plus at Kingsville, Ont. has reached a licensing agreement with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to use its patented technology — a fungal organism called Clonostachys rosea, strain ACM941 — to […] Read more

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