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File photo of a Wyoming corn crop. (RiverNorthPhotography/iStock/Getty Images)

Feed weekly outlook: Market steady in face of harvest, U.S. corn imports

Imports weigh on domestic barley values

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News August 17, 2023

MarketsFarm — The feed grain market in Western Canada is holding reasonably steady as harvest operations progress and corn imports continue to come up from the United States. Anecdotal harvest reports were varied so far, with surprisingly positive results from some growers and others who missed out on showers ending up with lower yields, according […] Read more

ICE November 2023 canola with 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola enters volatile harvest period

Outside veg oil markets limit the downside

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News August 16, 2023

MarketsFarm — The looming harvest may keep a lid on the upside in the ICE Futures canola market over the next month as participants wait to get a better handle on the size of this year’s crop. “We’re still at the mercy of trying to determine what size of crop we have,” said MarketsFarm Pro […] Read more

Chickpea curry. (Modesigns58/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea market neither bullish nor bearish

Market players awaiting harvest

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News August 15, 2023

MarketsFarm — Hot and dry growing conditions earlier in the growing season cut into Canada’s chickpea yields in 2023-24, but quality should be good if the weather co-operates through the harvest. Canadian farmers planted 315,600 acres of chickpeas in 2023, which was well above the 233,800 acres seeded the previous year, according to Statistics Canada […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan Crop Report: Dryness continues as harvest begins

Since April 1, the entirety of the province received 200 mm or less of rain

By GFM Network News August 3, 2023

MarketsFarm – With the exception of a handful of areas, most of Saskatchewan remained dry for the week ended July 31 as harvest operations began in the province’s southwest and west-central regions. Areas north of Prince Albert and northwest of Kindersley, as well as inside and around Hudson Bay each saw more than 30 millimetres […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE canola weekly outlook: Prices trending down ahead of harvest

Harvest pressure may not be that large this year says analyst

By GFM Network News August 2, 2023

MarketsFarm – ICE Futures canola contracts lost ground during the week ended Aug. 2, as spillover from outside markets and easing concerns over the state of the crop ahead of the harvest weighed on values. Excessive heat during the flowering period in June and July caused canola prices to climb higher, but the market is […] Read more

Barley, Cereals, Crops, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Saskatchewan crops a mixed bag

Some cereal crops beyond harvesting with plans to salvage for feed

By GFM Network News July 27, 2023

Marketsfarm – There was a wide mixture of the results in the latest crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Parts of the province were hobbled by drought conditions, while other areas received upwards to 40 millimetres of rain following a series of thunderstorms during the week of July 18 to 26. The desiccation of pulse crops […] Read more

Trevor Scherman and Megan Madden hold the sign displayed in front of their ScherGain booth at Ag in Motion on July 20, 2023. Photo: Braedyn Wozniak

Crops, Machinery

At Ag in Motion: Combine settings app makes the world your neighbour

'Oh, have you tried this concave?'

By GFM Network News July 21, 2023

Trevor Scherman and partner Megan Madden are making it easy for farmers to connect during harvest time to get the best settings for their combines. It’s an idea that Scherman says arose from the same philosophy as the ScherGain Solutions System he previously co-founded with his father. That system involves the use of a drop […] Read more

Originally a tow-behind unit that attached to the back of the combine, the newer iteration of the Harrington Seed Destructor is a mill that can be integrated with the combine. (Photo: deBruin Engineering Pty Ltd.)

Crops, Machinery

At Ag in Motion: Harvest weed control still in the mix

'You’re not going to spray your way out of this'

By GFM Network News July 18, 2023

It’s a relatively new solution to the age-old problem of trying to get rid of weeds without broadcasting the seed or using increasingly less effective herbicides — mechanical separation and pulverization of weed seed. Harvest weed seed control might not be a golden bullet to tackle glyphosate-, fluroxypyr- and dicamba-resistant weeds, but according to Agriculture […] Read more

CBOT September 2023 soft red winter wheat with 20-day moving average, MGEX September 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. September 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat surges on slow harvesting, poor crop conditions

Corn hits 2-1/2-year low and ends mixed, soy mostly firm

By GFM Network News July 5, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged on Wednesday as slow winter wheat harvesting and deteriorating spring crop conditions fuelled buying and short covering that lifted prices from 2-1/2-week lows. The wheat rally pulled corn up from 2-1/2-year lows despite expanded plantings and recent rains that lessened concerns about drought-reduced yields. Soybeans firmed on […] Read more

File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Rapeseed production expected down in EU

USDA attache sees more soy, sunflower

By GFM Network News May 3, 2023

MarketsFarm — Rapeseed production in the European Union (EU) is expected to see a small decrease in the 2023-24 marketing year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) European Union attaché in Vienna. In a Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report released Wednesday, the EU’s 2023-24 rapeseed crop is expected to total 19.3 million […] Read more

Daily Network News

FCC raises inflation forecast on surging commodity prices

U.S. urges WTO members to rethink core tariff rule in face of China threat

Speculators add to bullish bets in canola

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