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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Prices for reds rise, amber eases back

Harvest pressure, Canadian dollar also factors

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MarketsFarm — Wheat on the Canadian Prairies was mixed for the week ended Thursday, with gains for Canada Western Red Spring and Canada Prairie Spring Red wheats, while Canada Western Amber Durum slipped back. Kansas City winter wheat and Minneapolis spring futures were higher on the week to provide support for Canadian cash prices, but […] Read more
Close-up file photo of an alfalfa plant in a Canadian field. (Jennifer Seeman/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Forages

DLF buys Corteva’s alfalfa seed business

Business to be 'fully transitioned' after 2024 season

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International forage and turf seed firm DLF is stretching its reach in the alfalfa market with a deal for Corteva Agriscience’s assets in that business. The Danish firm announced Wednesday it had acquired Corteva’s global alfalfa germplasm and breeding program for an undisclosed sum, including its current commercial alfalfa varieties and their trademarks such as […] Read more
File photo of harvesting near Wymark, Sask., south of Swift Current, on Sept. 8, 2020. (Nancy Anderson/iStock/Getty Images)
Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Harvest pressure keeps lid on prices

Domestic prices seen weighing on corn imports

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MarketsFarm — As the harvest continued across the Canadian Prairies, pressure kept feed grain prices largely in check, according to Crystal Leitch of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. “We don’t see things changing too much because pricing is not what it was. There’s some hope that pricing is going to come back up, whether it […] Read more
CBOT November 2023 soybeans with 20-, 30- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy futures stumble as trade awaits harvest, crop data

U.S. corn harvesting starts early in some areas

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Thursday as grain traders waited for farmers to harvest their fields and the government to release updated crop estimates next week. Most-active soybean futures ended down 16-3/4 cents at $13.59-1/2 a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade (all figures US$). CBOT wheat futures declined 9-1/4 […] Read more
Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

UN working on guarantees for Russia to restore grain deal, Moscow skeptical

Bombing of Ukraine ports, grain facilities erodes other partners' goodwill, Guterres says

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Reuters — The United Nations is “actively engaged” in trying to improve Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports in a bid to convince Moscow to again allow the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. “We believe that it’s necessary to create a system of mutual guarantee,” Guterres told reporters on […] Read more
This photo was taken in 1946 near Saskatoon, Sask. The telephone poles were barely visible.
Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Gone with the wind. Soil erosion by wind mostly history in the Prairies

Soils and Crops: We need to let society know

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Our grandfathers broke the rich prairie sod in the early 1900s. Even then, power and machinery were available to keep the soil free of weeds in the fallow year and pulverize the soil in the process. Serious wind erosion started soon after cultivation, but the “dirty thirties” are best known for land destruction that sent […] Read more
ICE November 2023 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Little downside for canola, trader says

'I wouldn’t look for a big collapse'

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MarketsFarm — After trading rangebound during the week before the Labour Day long weekend, canola started the month of September by taking a tumble. The November canola contract stayed between $800-$821 per tonne from Aug. 24 to Sept. 1, with closing prices between $809-$812/tonne. When ICE Futures resumed trading Tuesday, the price dropped $13.90, to […] Read more
CBOT December 2023 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Weather

CBOT weekly outlook: Poor crop ratings keep soy, corn supported

Major changes not expected in next WASDE

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MarketsFarm — Hot and dry weather conditions cutting into crop ratings for soybeans and corn in the U.S. could see prices for both crops rise above nearby chart resistance levels, although the looming harvest may temper the upside potential. Both soybeans and corn were rated 53 per cent good-to-excellent in the latest weekly crop report […] Read more
CBOT November 2023 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Soy futures jump as heat, dryness hurt crop more than expected

USDA rates soy, corn crops least good-to-excellent since 2012

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures jumped on Wednesday after weekly U.S. government data showed crop conditions deteriorated more than expected during hot, dry weather. Reduced crop ratings fuelled expectations among traders that the U.S. Department of Agriculture may cut its yield forecast in a monthly report due next week. USDA […] Read more
Container ships pass through locks on the Panama Canal in this file photo. (CIA.gov)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Panama Canal water levels at historic lows, restrictions to remain

Lake feeding canal low on rainfall

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Panama City | Reuters — The Panama Canal’s water levels have not recovered enough as the end of the rainy season approaches and limits on daily transit and vessel draft will stay in place for the rest of the year and throughout 2024, the waterway’s authority said on Tuesday. The restrictions, implemented earlier this year […] Read more

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