Cereals & Production Tips

Western Canadian wheat bids mostly lower

By GFM Network News October 28, 2019

Wheat bids in Western Canada were mostly lower for the week ended October 24. Losses were observed in Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat (CWRS) and Canadian Red Spring (CPSR), with Canadian Western Amber Durum (CWAD) staying steady to slightly lower. Average CWRS (13.5 per cent) wheat prices were down by C$7 to C$8 per tonne, […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Crop, field conditions to determine what’s feed

By GFM Network News October 24, 2019

MarketsFarm – Given the difficult conditions grain farmers have contended with in 2019, especially the cold, wet conditions that’s drawing out the harvest, it’s hard to say how much wheat and barley will end up as feed, according to one broker. “I really think we don’t know what to expect. There’s wheat coming off even […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Cash wheat bids: Red spring gains, durum eases

By GFM Network News October 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mostly higher for the week ended Thursday. Strong gains were seen in Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPRS) wheats, while Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) was steady to lower. The Canadian dollar gained almost nine-10ths of a cent during the week, closing […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Cash wheat bids: CWRS up with U.S. futures, improved basis

By GFM Network News October 11, 2019

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Thursday, with gains in some classes and losses in others as the domestic market reacted to adverse harvest weather and mixed activity in U.S. futures. Average CWRS (Canada Western Red Spring, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $4-$5 per […] Read more

File photo of wheat under snow. (Ssvyat/iStock/Getty Images)

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Weather

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain market finding a bottom

By GFM Network News October 9, 2019

MarketsFarm — The western Canadian feed grain market is showing signs of finding a bottom, as buyers wait to get a better handle on the quality of grain still unharvested across the Prairies. Feed barley is currently trading at around $200 per tonne in southern Alberta, while feed wheat bids are around $210, according to […] Read more

File photo of a durum wheat field in Idaho. (Craig Morris photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Late North American durum faces quality downgrades

By GFM Network News October 8, 2019

MarketsFarm — Cool and wet conditions delaying harvest operations across North America’s durum-growing regions are cutting into the quality of the crop in both the U.S. and Canada, with widening price spreads likely going forward. “It’s been a challenging harvest,” said Erica Olson, marketing specialist with the North Dakota Wheat Commission. “We did have some […] Read more

Iraqi men carry a coffin of a demonstrator, who was killed during anti-government protests, to bury at the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq on Oct. 7, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Iraq replaces state grain agency’s chief

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 8, 2019

Baghdad/Dubai | Reuters — Iraq, a major Middle East wheat and rice importer, has replaced the head of its state grain buying agency, government sources and a document showed on Tuesday. Naeem al-Maksousi was replaced by Hassanein Mahdi Elwan, a document reviewed by Reuters showed. The reason for the replacement, which comes after a week […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: CWRS down, durum up

By GFM Network News October 5, 2019

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed for the week ended Thursday. Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats saw losses, while Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) saw gains. The Canadian dollar was higher for most of the past week, topping off at 75.55 U.S. cents on Tuesday, […] Read more

These photos, taken on August 15 just west of Edmonton, show classic copper deficiency. The field is a sandy loam soil with five to six per cent organic matter. The roadway, built about 10 years ago, has shoulders made up from deep-dug clay loam piled onto the field from the ditch. This clay loam is low in organic matter, probably one to two per cent or less, but high in available copper (see more below, including video).

Cereals, Columns, Crops

Identifying copper deficiency in wheat

Ieuan Evans looks at 2019 growing conditions, including areas where copper levels are low 

By Ieuan Evans October 4, 2019

In early August in central Alberta I was still seeing yellow fields of canola. Honeybees and mosquitoes were having an extended nectar flowing season. I will stick my neck out as usual and make a few observations and prophecies across the Western Prairies. Crops are late in the northern part of the Western Prairies, but […] Read more

Paterson Grain’s current elevator at Rosser, Man., is the largest in its Prairie primary grain handling network at 121,000 tonnes capacity. (Dave Bedard file photo)

Crops, Oats

Paterson stakes Manitoba site for oat processing plant

By GFM Network News October 3, 2019

Up to a quarter million tonnes of oats per year could find a new end use as a Winnipeg agrifood company sets up a new oat processing plant near its home base. Privately-held Paterson GlobalFoods (PGF) announced Thursday it will start construction “immediately” on the new plant, on part of its 600-acre site next to […] Read more

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Western Canadian wheat bids mostly lower

Crop, field conditions to determine what’s feed

Cash wheat bids: Red spring gains, durum eases

Cash wheat bids: CWRS up with U.S. futures, improved basis

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain market finding a bottom

Late North American durum faces quality downgrades

Iraq replaces state grain agency’s chief

Prairie cash wheat: CWRS down, durum up

Identifying copper deficiency in wheat

Paterson stakes Manitoba site for oat processing plant

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