Cereals & Production Tips

Fusarium head blight in cereals (seen here) or sclerotinia in canola are monocyclic, meaning that they infect a host and produce spores just once in a season.

Will 2021’s heat and drought conditions affect this year’s disease incidence?

By Madeleine Baerg May 11, 2022

Last season’s low disease incidence may decrease disease pressure, at least at the beginning of the season. “In much of the Prairies, we’ve had dry conditions for a few years in a row. Generally speaking, dry conditions provide poor environments for pathogens, so going into 2022, there may be a reduced buildup of pathogen inoculum […] Read more

File photo of a wheat field in India. (Sahil Ghosh/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Winter Wheat

India sells record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April

Sales surge on unavailability of Black Sea supplies

By GFM Network News May 11, 2022

New Delhi | Reuters — India exported a record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April, four trade sources said, providing some relief to grain markets as buyers scramble for alternatives to Black Sea supplies hit hard by the war in Ukraine. April is the first month of the fiscal year. India, the world’s second […] Read more

Standing corn north of St. Adolphe, Man. on Sept. 19, 2021. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Corn trading higher than barley

Seeding begins in Alberta

By GFM Network News May 6, 2022

MarketsFarm — Imported corn from the U.S. is still the grain of choice for feedlots in southern Alberta, despite the fact feed barley is at a slightly lower price right now. Corn traded on Wednesday at around $480 per tonne ($12.19 per bushel) in Lethbridge, said Jim Beusekom, president of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. […] Read more

A washout on Manitoba PR 240, about 60 km north of the U.S. border, on May 2, 2022. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Alexis Stockford)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Weather

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. spring wheat seeding near standstill

By GFM Network News May 5, 2022

MarketsFarm — A succession of weather events has pretty much brought spring planting in North Dakota and Minnesota to a standstill, according to analyst Tom Lilja of Progressive Ag at Fargo, N.D. The weekly crop progress report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated nationwide planting of spring wheat at 19 per cent complete […] Read more

A combine unloads wheat on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in western India on March 16, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather, Winter Wheat

Heat wave threatens India’s wheat output, export plans

Thin supplies, rising prices indicate lower output

By GFM Network News May 3, 2022

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s wheat output looks likely to fall in 2022 after five consecutive years of record harvests, as a sharp, sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March cut crop yields in the world’s second-biggest producer of the grain. The drop could curb Indian exports of the staple. Cashing in on a rally […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Weather, loonie raise wheat bids

By GFM Network News April 30, 2022

MarketsFarm — Adverse weather on both ends of the U.S. Plains as well as a weaker Canadian dollar were both supportive factors for western Canadian wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. For the second straight weekend, a Colorado low system hit the northern Plains as well as the eastern Prairie provinces on Sunday and […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Seeding on time in southern Alberta

By GFM Network News April 29, 2022

MarketsFarm — As southern Alberta still reels from the effects of last summer’s drought, one trader expects spring seeding for feed grains to be on time. “I think it should be on schedule this year,” said Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. Planting has already started in some places around […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Red spring falls back, durum rises

U.S. wheat futures down on week

By GFM Network News April 23, 2022

MarketsFarm — Wheat prices on the Prairies during the week ended Thursday incurred moderate losses in Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) while durum (CWAD) pushed upward. Declines in the U.S. wheat complex led the way, with a higher Canadian dollar this week adding more pressure on Prairie wheat prices. […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: U.S. corn imports getting expensive

By GFM Network News April 22, 2022

MarketsFarm — As barley and wheat supplies for feed remain tight, demand for corn imports from the U.S. remains strong — but a rally in corn over the last couple of weeks is putting strain on the market, according to Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. “It is definitely deterring sales and/or purchases […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Market stagnant as U.S. corn imports continue

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News April 14, 2022

MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are holding relatively steady for the time being, as end-users are well covered with corn imports from the United States. “It seems like most buyers have managed to cover themselves well into June with corn,” said Susanne Leclerc, owner of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton, adding that […] Read more

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