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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat bids mixed, durum lower

StatCan raises projections for spring wheat harvest

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MarketsFarm — Bids for Western Canadian spring wheat were on both sides of unchanged while those for durum were lower for the week ended Thursday. Statistics Canada (StatCan) released its model-based principal field crop production estimates on Thursday, presenting a tightening wheat crop compared to that from 2022-23. All-wheat production was projected at 29.8 million […] Read more
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Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: More demand for barley in Alberta

U.S. corn imports still expected to cap barley values

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MarketsFarm — As Alberta’s harvest continued, yields and crop conditions have varied across the province, according to Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. “There has been such a wide range across the map, it really depends on location,” she said. “We’ve seen some areas that are just below average of […] Read more
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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
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
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General, Weather

Prairie Forecast: Summer trying to hang on

Issued Sept. 6, covering Sept. 6 to 13

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The weather models seem to be in good agreement for this forecast period, with no strong storm systems expected to impact the Prairies, making for a fairly high-confidence forecast. This forecast period will start off with a generally west to southwesterly flow across the Prairies. A broad but weak area of low pressure is expected […] Read more
Global sea surface temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius for the week centred on Aug. 30, 2023. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
General, Weather

Rest of September to be warmer than normal for Prairies

Southern Prairies to remain drier than normal

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MarketsFarm — As summer turns to autumn on the Canadian Prairies, the weather outlook for the rest of September is for temperatures to be warmer than normal, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics. One of the factors in those forthcoming temperatures is the El Niño that has been developing over the last several […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Bids, futures take tumbles

Canadian dollar sees slight gain on week

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MarketsFarm — Western Canadian wheat bids were lower throughout during the week ended Thursday, with Canada Western Red Spring wheat seeing the largest declines. Statistics Canada (StatCan) released its first model-based production estimates for 2023-24 on Tuesday. Based on data compiled up to July 31, StatCan estimated total Canadian wheat production at 29.472 million tonnes, […] Read more
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Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Feed barley, wheat prices coming down

Feedlots' use of U.S. corn adds pressure

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MarketsFarm — Despite a hot and dry summer across much of the Prairies, prices for feed barley and feed wheat have fallen off over the past month. The high-delivered bid for Alberta feed barley was $8.06 per bushel, $1.42 less than one month ago, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire. Those in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were […] Read more
ICE November 2023 canola with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Harvest pressure, farmer selling to guide canola

New StatCan figures 'right around expectations'

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MarketsFarm — Any fanfare from the long-awaited production estimates from Statistics Canada released on Tuesday was gone by the next day. ICE canola futures initially jumped by double digits that morning, but throughout that session the gains faded. By the end of Wednesday’s session, canola was down. “The StatCan report came in right around expectations. […] Read more

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