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Cereals, Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Manitoba winter wheat in good shape

Group pushes for national wheat research strategy

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Commodity News Service Canada — Despite heavy rains throughout July, Manitoba’s winter wheat is in good condition moving into desiccation, the head of an industry group says. The Manitoba winter cereals group is also preparing for an upcoming government program by working alongside other Canadian wheat commissions. “Everybody is still pretty happy. The winter wheat can […] Read more
Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie wheat bids tick lower in choppy week

CWRS basis levels across Western Canada range from C$13 to C$27 below the futures

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Commodity News Service Canada — Spring wheat cash bids across Western Canada ended slightly lower for the week ended July 18, tracking choppy action in the U.S. futures. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were one to two dollars per tonne lower, according to price quotes from a cross-section of […] Read more
A wheat crop in standing water. (Colton Yoder photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather

Wet wheat weather watched worldwide

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CNS Canada — Generous rainfall has benefited but also boosted the risk of disease on wheat crops in much of Canada and the U.S., and has also cut into grain quality in parts of Europe. However, according to Drew Lerner of U.S. forecast agency World Weather Inc., conditions during the harvest season will be the […] Read more
The Nile River at Cairo. (CIA.gov)
Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Egypt’s parliament to look into wheat fraud allegations

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Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s parliament has set up a fact-finding commission that will look into allegations of corruption in local wheat procurement. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, this month announced a government-led inspection of wheat silos after an unusually high procurement figure prompted allegations of possible fraud from top industry officials, traders and […] Read more
Three steps to make your best grain grade deal
Cereals, Crops

Three steps to make your best grain grade deal

Here's how you can help maximize your profits when making your next grain sale

Occasionally producers make sales agreements with grain companies, then find their grain downgraded when they deliver it to their buyer later in the year. This can happen for numerous reasons. Grain companies may have aggressively over-bought early in the year, causing them to lose money and readjust their grain grading later in the year. Producers[...]
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Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egypt to allow trace ergot in wheat

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Cairo | Reuters –– Egypt will allow wheat imports with trace levels of the ergot fungus of up to 0.05 per cent, the agriculture ministry said Monday, a day after the head of its agriculture quarantine authority was changed. Former quarantine head Saad Moussa’s zero tolerance policy on ergot had led to shipments to the[...]
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Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)
Cereals, Reuters

Egypt’s Agriculture Ministry to keep sending wheat inspectors abroad

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Abu Dhabi/Reuters – The Agriculture Ministry of Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, said on Friday it would continue to send experts to inspect government wheat purchases at ports of origin. Sources had told Reuters on Thursday that the agricultural quarantine authority was considering halting inspections abroad. “The central administration of the agriculture quarantine will continue[...]
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Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egypt’s ergot saga leaves wheat traders in limbo

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Reuters — One Egyptian official’s tough stance on wheat imports carrying a fungus that wreaked havoc in the Middle Ages is baffling global grain traders and putting a spotlight on policy-making disarray in the world’s biggest purchaser of the commodity. Alarm bells began ringing in Egypt when a 63,000-tonne wheat shipment from France arrived in[...]
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(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

U.S. wheat up with short-covering, but more downside possible

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CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures hit contract lows over the past week, before seeing a short-covering correction in recent days. However, with ample world supplies and poor export demand, the path of least resistance likely remains lower, according to market participants. The fundamentals are pretty bearish for wheat, but the market structure is looking[...]
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(Jack Dykinga photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Spring Wheat

Genetic codebreaking on wheat years ahead of schedule

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Sequencing the infamously complex genome for bread wheat — a game-changing task for wheat breeding that’s been estimated to take four or five more years — may now just take another couple of years, following a milestone announced Wednesday. The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), a team co-led by Canadian researchers, announced Wednesday it[...]
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