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Grain storage at a Russian seaport. (Pridannikov/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Tax, competition expected to prolong Russian wheat export season

Tax complicates forward sales for exporters

By GFM Network News August 23, 2021

Moscow | Reuters — Exports of Russian wheat will stretch well into the second half of the season as Moscow’s export tax and tough competition with Ukraine and Romania slow sales until the end of 2021, traders and analysts said. Russia, the world’s largest exporter of wheat, generally sells most of its crop during the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Big jump for durum

U.S. futures, lower loonie supportive for cash wheat bids

By GFM Network News August 21, 2021

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada for the week ended Thursday were higher for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats, while there were sharp increases for Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD). Gains in U.S. wheat markets supported values, as did a steep drop for the Canadian dollar. Average […] Read more

A barley crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on July 30, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: New crop expected to stabilize feed prices

Drought will drag Prairies' yields much lower

By GFM Network News August 19, 2021

MarketsFarm — New crop is starting to make its way into feed grain bins as the annual harvest gets underway in Alberta. However, due to the drought conditions which have enveloped Western Canada, yields will be much lower than normal. “(The yields are) generally lower than expected and (there’s been) some disappointment,” said Allen Pirness, […] Read more

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Winter Wheat

Russia’s agriculture ministry pauses grain harvesting data

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 18, 2021

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s agriculture ministry has paused its daily publication of grain harvesting data while it refines the reporting format used by the country’s growing regions, the ministry said Wednesday. Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, supplying it mainly to Africa and the Middle East. It competes with the European Union and […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cereals, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: DDGs becoming another feed option

By GFM Network News August 9, 2021

MarketsFarm – As traditional feed grains such as barley and wheat become more expensive due to persistent drought-like conditions in the Prairies, many feedlots are using alternative sources of feed for their animals. Dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGs), the grain by-products which remain after starch has been fermented through the making of alcohol or […] Read more

A sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to drought may force bakers to change how they work with flour. Photo: DanielBendjy/E+/Getty Images

Cereals, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Millers, bakers fret as drought withers North America’s spring wheat

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 5, 2021

Reuters – Millers and bakers are draining wheat reserves and paying more for spring wheat used in baking, as drought shrivels crops across the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Plains that produce more than half of the world’s supply. U.S. and Canadian farmers are bracing for a sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to the […] Read more

Alberta’s barley harvest this year is expected to be ‘fairly light,’ according to one commodity trader. Photo: File

Cereals, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Reduced yields starting to become a reality

By GFM Network News July 30, 2021

MarketsFarm – As old crop stocks of feed barley and feed wheat continue to dwindle, the realization of reduced yields is now supporting bids for new crop. “Down here, there are a few guys that are starting to pull off some barley here in the next little bit. You’re going to find that the barley […] Read more

North Dakota is the biggest U.S. producer of spring wheat, used in artisanal breads, pizza dough and bagels. Photo: Thinkstock

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Southern, eastern North Dakota spring wheat yields hurt by drought

By GFM Network News July 28, 2021

Mandan, N.D. | Reuters – Spring wheat yields in southern and east central North Dakota are well below average as a severe drought slashed production potential in the country’s top producing state, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday. Crop scouts calculated an average spring wheat yield at 29.5 bushels per acre (bpa) […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Durum markets reckon with weather

'There was no wiggle room for a crop problem'

By GFM Network News July 23, 2021

MarketsFarm — The higher temperatures soared and the longer between rains in Western Canada, the lower the yield projections for most crops — and drought-tolerant durum wheat is no exception. With bids already elevated due to a downturn in potential new-crop supply, the price of durum could rise even higher. “There’s not a lot of […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Bids rising in Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News July 23, 2021

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices in Western Canada are continuing their ongoing rise as heat and dryness cover the region. “For feed wheat (on Tuesday), I finally got a bid of $10 per bushel, which is really an amazing bid,” said Dale McManus, broker for Johnston Grains at Welwyn, Sask. The high-delivered bid for feed […] Read more

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