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CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 12, 2025

Regardless of the United States government shutdown ending soon or not, the Department of Agriculture is set to issue its supply and demand report on Nov. 14. The USDA cancelled its October edition of World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates due to the shutdown and pushed back their November report a few days.

USDA’s spring and winter wheat ratings exceed expectations

Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie CWRS bids rise, other wheats mixed

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 12, 2025

Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat bids across the Prairie provinces saw some strength during the week ended Nov. 11, taking some direction from the United States futures. However, other wheat classes were mixed.

Canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Notable changes in exports to China, India

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 7, 2025

China and India figured prominently in the September export data issued by the Canadian Grain Commission on Nov. 7. For the most part, the CGC’s numbers highlighted issues with grain, oilseed and pulse exports from licensed facilities to those countries.

wheat field in St. Andrews, Manitoba in 2018. Photo: Greg Berg

Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Urea stands tall, production-wise, against ‘alternative’ nitrogen fertilizers

N stabilizers did their job but offered little value to wheat yield, says project lead

By Jeff Melchior October 31, 2025

A two-year Alberta project finds old-school granular urea is still the most effective nitrogen fertilizer source for spring wheat yield when compared to “alternative” forms of granular N, at least at the sites studied.

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Winter Wheat

CBOT weekly: Trade talks in focus

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 29, 2025

Optimism over thawing trade relations between the United States and China gave soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade a boost during the week ended Oct. 29, with the advances in the soy market spilling into corn and wheat.

Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: U.S. futures lift Western Canadian bids

By Adam Peleshaty October 29, 2025

A rally in U.S. soybean futures spilled over into wheat on both sides of the border during the week ended Oct. 28, 2025.

RJ Sigurdson, MLA for Highwood, is sworn in on June 9, 2023 as Alberta’s minister of agriculture and irrigation. (Government of Alberta video screengrab via YouTube)

Canola, Cereals, Markets, News, Pulses

Sigurdson applauds Alberta farmers

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 24, 2025

With Alberta’s harvest virtually wrapped up for 2025, provincial Agriculture Minister RJ Sigurdson offered the government’s congratulations to the province’s farmers.

A field of flax is harvested in southern Manitoba. Photo: Donna Gamache/File

Canola, Cereals, Crops, Forages, Markets, News, Pulses

Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 23, 2025

Manitoba Agriculture issued its final crop report of 2025, showing the overall provincewide harvest at 97 per cent complete as of Oct. 20. Nearly all major crops have finished combining, with 37 per cent of Manitoba’s sunflowers finished, plus 71 per cent of grain corn and small amounts of soybeans and potatoes left to do.

Barley, Corn, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grains Weekly: Prices in holding pattern

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 23, 2025

Feed prices on the Canadian Prairies are likely to remain steady for the time being, said Brandon Motz, a manager at CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, Alta.

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Cereals, Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: China, shutdown guiding the market

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 22, 2025

The United States grain and oilseed markets are currently dominated by two factors, said Ryan Ettner, broker with Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. Ettner said those are the absence of a trade deal with China and the ongoing United States government shutdown.

GFM Network News

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Feed Grain Weekly: Higher export prices could push up those for feed

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