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Cereals, Markets, News, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

USDA predicts more wheat in Australia, smaller crops elsewhere

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 21, 2025

Australia will grow more wheat in 2025/26 than earlier expectations, but production will likely be down on the year in Turkey and Kazakhstan, according to several attaché reports released by the United States Department of Agriculture on Nov. 20, as it continues to catch up following the federal government shutdown.

Manitoba Agriculture's Manasah Mkhabela at Arborg, Man. in July 2025, discussing trials he's conducting with University of Manitoba soil scientist Mario Tenuta to find the sweet spot for nitrification inhibitors. Photo: Don Norman

Crops

How much nitrogen can farmers really cut?

Manitoba fertilizer trials search for the sweet spot where farmers can cut nitrogen rates, with a nitrification inhibitor, without harm to yield

By Don Norman November 21, 2025

Manitoba fertilizer trials seek a sweet spot where farmers can cut nitrogen rates, with a nitrification inhibitor, without hurting yield and with fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

By Adam Peleshaty November 20, 2025

Western Canadian chickpeas saw stable prices and its largest crop in two decades.

Canola, Markets

Funds held large net short in canola before U.S. shutdown

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 20, 2025

Speculative fund traders were adding to a recently-established net short position in canola at the end of September, said the first Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since the end of the U.S. federal government shutdown.

Crops, Markets, Reuters

IGC raises 2025/26 world wheat, corn crop forecasts

By Reuters November 20, 2025

Global stocks of grain are set to increase during the 2025/26 season for the first time in four years, the International Grains Council said on Thursday as it raised its forecasts for both wheat and corn crops.

Canola, Markets, News

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 19, 2025

Canadian canola futures are poised to slip back in the short term, although the oilseed could climb slowly higher in the long term, said Jamie Wilton, trader with R.J. O’Brien in Winnipeg, Man.

Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly: Soybeans watching export news

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 19, 2025

Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade climbed to their highest levels in a year-and-a-half on Nov. 18, as optimism over increasing sales to China provided support. However, more business will be needed to sustain the upward move, with traders uncertain whether the stated targets will be reached.

Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat mixed, durum lower

By Adam Peleshaty November 19, 2025

Western Canadian spring wheat prices were mixed, while durum prices were down on Nov. 18, 2025.

A sunflower crop in bloom near Rathwell in central Manitoba in late July 2025. Photo: Alexis Stockford

Crops, Features

Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid headed to market

Manitoba Crop Alliance lands U.S. co-operative CHS to commercialize the first confection sunflower variety to come out of MCA’s homegrown breeding program

By Don Norman November 19, 2025

Manitoba’s confection sunflower growers will have a new seed option next spring developed specifically for performance in the province. The pending commercialization of one of its hybrids is a milestone for the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), the commodity group that represents the province’s sunflower growers. The organization has invested in its own sunflower breeding program. […] Read more

Crops

Coalition pledges funds for barley variety development

By Geralyn Wichers November 18, 2025

The Canadian Barley Research Coalition has pledged nearly $1.15 million in funding to work with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada on the development of new barley varieties.

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans higher in technical bounce; wheat firms

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

Crops

USDA predicts more wheat in Australia, smaller crops elsewhere

How much nitrogen can farmers really cut?

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

Funds held large net short in canola before U.S. shutdown

IGC raises 2025/26 world wheat, corn crop forecasts

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound

CBOT weekly: Soybeans watching export news

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat mixed, durum lower

Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid headed to market

Coalition pledges funds for barley variety development

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