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CBOT March 2020 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat surges to five-month high

By GFM Network News November 29, 2019

Corrected, Nov. 30 — Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures exploded to a five-month high on Friday due to threats to global production and as fund scrambled to cover their short positions in the post-holiday market, traders said. The wheat rally gave support to Chicago corn futures, which hit a three-week high on the […] Read more

Unharvested canola under snow in October 2016. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Canola, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Millions of acres of canola freeze, compound ‘harvest from hell’

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News November 15, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — Heavy snow and rain during harvest on the Canadian Prairies have left several million acres of canola buried until spring, the latest blow in a miserable year that may compound farmer problems into 2020. Canola is renowned as Canada’s most profitable crop, exported to China, Japan and Mexico to make vegetable […] Read more

Standing corn west of Giroux, Man. on Oct. 21, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Weather

Corn harvest a struggle for three U.S. states

By GFM Network News November 13, 2019

MarketsFarm — With a significant amount of corn still in the fields on the U.S. northern Plains, the harvest may be grinding to a halt, according to MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett. In particular, Burnett noted, the corn harvest has been further slowed by a propane shortage, which has caused issues for farmers trying to acquire […] Read more

File photo of a sunflower crop in Manitoba. (MysticEnergy/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Manitoba sunflowers not calling it quits just yet

By GFM Network News September 17, 2019

MarketsFarm — Manitoba farmers may have seeded the smallest sunflower acres in eight years this spring, but the crop is in reasonably good shape heading into the harvest later in the fall. “I do expect to see better crops this year than last year,” said Cody Burton, purchasing manager with Nestibo Agra at Deloraine, Man. […] Read more

Harvest weather so far this fall may cost barley end-users seeking malting-grade product this year, the CMBTC warns. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Crops, Markets, Weather

As harvest drags on, malt barley quality uncertain

By GFM Network News September 11, 2019

MarketsFarm — The quality of Canada’s 2019-20 barley crop remains to be seen, as cool and wet harvest conditions across much of the Prairies are raising concerns over how much will meet malt specifications. “We’ll lose a lot of malting barley this year, because of the weather,” said Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian […] Read more

The highlighted spot in this 2017 aerial photo shows the area of expansion at McCain’s potato processing plant at Florenceville, N.B. (CNW Group/McCain Foods)

Crops, Potatoes

McCain to dial up fry production in New Brunswick

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News September 9, 2019

The company behind about a quarter of the world’s frozen French fries plans to ramp up demand from New Brunswick potato growers with a line capacity upgrade at its recently expanded plant there. McCain Foods announced Aug. 27 it will put up another $12 million to add capacity to its Florenceville, N.B. plant’s French fry […] Read more

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas appear OK, but prices soft

By GFM Network News August 27, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canada’s chickpea crop has likely beaten earlier expectations — but poor prices may limit farmer sales come harvest. “We planted the crop in drought conditions” and were preparing for the worst, said Colin Young of Midwest Grain at Moose Jaw, Sask., pointing to the lack of subsoil moisture in key chickpea-growing regions of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Hemp yield uncertain ahead of harvest

By GFM Network News August 27, 2019

MarketsFarm — While Canada’s licensed hemp acreage nearly doubled from 2018 to 2019, yield estimates will remain uncertain until licensed producers report their crops to Health Canada after harvest. “Health Canada, for the first time, will be collecting information on hemp acres that were seeded, rather than hemp acres that were licensed,” said Ted Haney, […] Read more

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

USDA attache to Canada predicts larger wheat crop

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — A new report from the Ottawa-based attache to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has raised its estimate of total wheat production in Canada for 2019. The report Thursday from attache Phil Hayes increases FAS’s estimate of wheat production in Canada for 2019 to 32.65 million tonnes, compared to last […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan)

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan canary seed crops may not recover

By GFM Network News August 15, 2019

MarketsFarm –– Canary seed crop yields may be hampered by dry early summer conditions, and rain that didn’t come quite soon enough. Saskatchewan’s west-central region, home to the lion’s share of the province’s canary seed crops, received very little rain during the spring and early summer. “That area was beyond recovery when the rain finally […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

GFM Network News