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Standing corn north of St. Adolphe, Man. on Sept. 19, 2021. (Dave Bedard photo)
Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Corn seeing higher prices, transportation delays

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MarketsFarm — Corn has become the primary feed grain in Alberta feedlots due to its lower price compared to barley and wheat. However, rising corn prices in the U.S. and transportation issues are causing some buyers to give pause. “Basic levels are a little bit stronger. (Add in) the exchange rate, there are a little […] Read more
A supplied aerial photo of vehicles blocking through traffic on Feb. 1, 2022 at the Canada-U.S. border crossing between Coutts, Alta. and Sweet Grass, Montana. (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)
Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Alberta blockade affects feed grain deliveries

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MarketsFarm — A truck blockade at a Canada-U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. has caused some headaches for grain buyers in southern parts of the province. Since Saturday, commercial trucks and other vehicles have blocked Highway 4, a 103-km stretch which runs from the border to Lethbridge, to protest COVID-19 health measures. On the U.S. […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed amid conflicting influences

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MarketsFarm — Wheat bids across Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Thursday, as losses in U.S. futures were countered by the supportive influence of a weaker Canadian dollar. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down by $7.60-$11.60 per tonne, according to price quotes from a cross-section […] Read more
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Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Markets facing uncertainty

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MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are facing some uncertainty amid tight domestic supplies and reports of transportation issues bringing up corn from the United States. “It’s very strange,” said Susanne Leclerc of MarketMaster Ltd. in Alberta. “You see stories like that (reporting on feedlots running low on grain), then you talk to […] Read more
CBOT March 2022 oats (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, brown and dark green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Oats

Oat prices, acres to rise in 2022, analyst says

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MarketsFarm — An independent crop market analyst told Saskatchewan oat growers he is bullish for the crop in 2022. Brennan Turner, founder and former CEO of online crop marketing platforms FarmLead and Combyne Ag, delivered a presentation at the Saskatchewan Oat Development Commission’s (SaskOats) annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Wednesday. Turner, a Foam Lake […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Stronger crop prospects, loonie lower bids

MGEX, K.C. wheat down on week

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MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s projected increases for domestic and worldwide wheat ending stocks, along with a strengthening Canadian dollar, brought pressure onto western Canadian wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. In its monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report on Wednesday, USDA showed a projected 1.78 million-tonne rise in […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Alberta bids see slight gains

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MarketsFarm — Alberta feedlots are only buying feed barley and wheat on a hand-to-mouth basis as demand remains unchanged, according to a local trader. “A lot of the feedlots we work with are buying what they needed and getting covered,” said Agfinity Inc. senior trader Erin Harakal from Stony Plain, Alta. High-delivered bids are $12.93 […] Read more
File photo of wheat plants in Afghanistan. (PK Ahmad/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Taliban increase payment in wheat as economic crisis deepens

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Kabul | Reuters — Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said on Tuesday it was expanding its ‘food for work’ program, in which it uses donated wheat to pay thousands of public sector employees instead of cash as a financial crisis intensifies. Wheat, largely donated by India to the previous U.S.-backed Kabul government, is being used to pay […] Read more
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Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Feedlots, elevators filled with corn

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MarketsFarm — As 2022 begins, feed grain markets in Alberta have been “status quo,” according to a grain buyer. “There’s a lot of grain that has been pre-contracted in terms of corn coming in from the United States,” said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. “Lots of priority has been towards execution, making […] Read more

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