Cereals & Production Tips

More room to downside for falling wheat futures

By GFM Network News July 8, 2014

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures have posted large losses over the past two months, but could be headed lower still as the winter wheat harvest moves northward and the country’s spring wheat crop is reported to be in good shape for the time being, said an analyst. CBOT soft wheat futures are currently trading […] Read more

Features, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Three ways to sample

If you don’t want any nasty surprises later, make sure your  sample is a good representative of the grain you plan to sell 

By Andrea Hilderman July 7, 2014

Taking representative samples is a critical step to understanding the quality or other characteristics of anything that is tested in some way. Rarely, if ever, is an entire organism, crop or object tested for quality, consistency, disease, protein, etc. A sample is generally taken and the results of the tests on the sample are presumed to […] Read more

Barley, Cereals, Crops, Markets

Barley acres down, but not expected to keep declining

By GFM Network News July 7, 2014

CNS Canada — Canada’s farmers have seeded their smallest barley crop in 50 years, according to Statistics Canada, but an industry official says he doesn’t think it will remain so low in the long-term. StatsCan’s seeded acreage report on June 27 had pegged barley acreage at 6,089,000 acres, down from 7,082,500 acres in 2013. This […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Spring wheat bids decline for fourth straight week

By GFM Network News July 7, 2014

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPRS) continued their downward slide during the week ended Monday, as losses in the U.S. wheat futures weighed on values for the fourth straight week. Average spot bids for CWRS (13.5 per cent protein) across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and […] Read more

Canola, Cereals, Crops

Prairie Pest Monitoring Network weekly update for July 2, 2014

By GFM Network News July 3, 2014

The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network has released its latest report. This week’s issue contains a review of weather for the season so far, and reviews of modelling and control procedures for wheat midge, diamondback moth, bertha armyworm, cabbage seedpod weevil, swede midge and flea beetles. Also provided is a weather synopsis and the accumulated precipitation […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Oats

Shipping delays push oat prices downward

By GFM Network News June 30, 2014

CNS Canada — The backlogged rail system in Canada has slowly started to move for certain commodities, but oats continue to remain on the shipping backburner, pushing prices lower according to some industry participants. While oat prices at larger companies right now are quite poor, bidding at under $1 per bushel, there are some specialty-type […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie CWRS cash bids fall below $5 a bushel

By GFM Network News June 30, 2014

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) moved lower during the week ended June 30, with CWRS bids falling below the $5 a bushel mark. Losses seen in U.S. wheat futures after a bearish U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Monday were responsible for […] Read more

A stretch of the Nile south of Luxor. Egypt today spends more than US$4 billion a year on food subsidies. (Cia.gov)

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Egypt expanding efforts to ease food subsidy costs

By GFM Network News June 25, 2014

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt is expanding its use of modern technology to tackle decades-old problems of corruption and waste in its costly food subsidies system as the government pursues reforms to ease the strain on state finances. Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafi said some 25 million Egyptian families who already have electronic smart cards for […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Winter Wheat

Brazil to open added tariff-free import quota for wheat

By GFM Network News June 19, 2014

Brasilia | Reuters — The Brazilian government plans to reduce to zero the 10 per cent import tariff applied to non-Mercosur wheat for a quota of up to one million tonnes through Aug. 15, a source in the government with knowledge of the plan said Wednesday. Brazil, regularly one of the world’s leading importers of […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Cargill invests $100M to expand Russian wheat milling

By GFM Network News June 19, 2014

Chicago | Reuters — Agribusiness giant Cargill said Thursday it has invested US$100 million to expand its wheat milling at its Efremov, Russia, grain complex, nearly doubling its processing capacity to 500,000 tonnes of wheat a year. The Efremov complex, which employs more than 800 people, produces starches and sweeteners from corn, barley, wheat and […] Read more

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