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Cattle prices dip but remain far stronger than a year ago

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 26, 2023

Activity is holding up well at Winnipeg Livestock Sales despite some easing in cattle prices, according to field representative Scott Anderson. “The futures have been kind of working their way lower,” he said. The five-day change at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange saw values lose US$1.65 per hundredweight, with the nearby December contract closing on Oct.[...]

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Slaughter prices steady to lower in lone sale

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 27, 2023

Summer is the slow season for Manitoba’s cattle industry and only one auction facility was open during the week of July 14-20. The Grunthal Livestock Auction Mart Ltd. hosted its sale July 18 with 63 head, including only nine feeder cattle. “There’s almost no feeder cattle moving at this time of year. Most markets are[...]

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A look back at grain markets in 2022

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 5, 2023

Optimism is the lifeblood of farming, always looking to the coming year with thoughts that it will be better than the one before. For canola and other crops, pretty much anything was going to be a vast improvement over the drought-stricken harvest of last year, and such was the case. Despite harvest 2022 being modestly[...]

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Cattle movement slow, but steady through the gates

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 30, 2024

Only three cattle auctions were open the week of May 17 to 23 due to a combination of the Victoria Day long weekend and summer schedules.  Winnipeg Livestock Sales was one of them. Its May 17 sale put 160 slaughter cattle and 390 feeders through the rings, virtually the same number it had in the[...]

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Canola choppy following StatCan’s latest report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 7, 2023

As the canola harvest across the Canadian Prairies picked up speed at the end of August, prices for the Canadian oilseed bounced back and forth on ICE Futures. Support came from soyoil on the Chicago Board of Trade, when the commodity was climbing higher, while European rapeseed and Malaysian palm oil provided spillover as well. And as crude oil prices[...]

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Manitoba expected to dodge spring floods

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 4, 2024

Manitoba’s latest flood outlook isn’t flagging major flood issues on the horizon. The February forecast published by the Hydrologic Forecast Centre March 1 put the risk of spring flooding at low to moderate through the province. Fall soil moisture levels sat at normal to below-normal soil moisture at freeze up, the centre noted. That has[...]

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Canola markets in wait-and-see mode

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 3, 2023

Canola prices spent the last full week of July vacillating between increases and decreases as the market shifted into a wait-and-see mode on this year’s crop on the Canadian Prairies. There’s zero doubt the 2023-24 canola harvest won’t make the 18.8 million tonnes projected by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada. Drought and excessive heat across most[...]

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Manitoba cattle sellers in good spirits

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 22, 2024

The Manitoba cattle market remains strong, with good prices for feeder and slaughter cattle, according to Ashern Auction Mart manager Kirk Kiesman. “Everyone who is selling is happy,” Kiesman said about the Ashern auction. “Probably in the last two weeks we have seen the market kind of pick up five to 10 cents more [per[...]

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Cattle moving in greater numbers

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 1, 2024

While there was not much change in cattle prices at the Killarney Auction Mart at its Jan. 22 sale, the number of head sold was slightly more than triple the previous week. There were 1,255 cattle auctioned on Jan. 22, compared to 410 the previous Monday. “Some of those yearlings bought last summer are starting[...]

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Huge canola prices likely finished

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 7, 2022

Barring a major catastrophe in the global oilseed market, the days of canola soaring to $1,200 per tonne are destined for the history books. With trading in the old crop July contract withering, it careened downward by almost $320 after hitting its high of $1,219 per tonne. New crop November canola plummeted nearly $236/tonne, sitting[...]

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Cattle prices dip but remain far stronger than a year ago

Slaughter prices steady to lower in lone sale

A look back at grain markets in 2022

Cattle movement slow, but steady through the gates

Canola choppy following StatCan’s latest report

Manitoba expected to dodge spring floods

Canola markets in wait-and-see mode

Manitoba cattle sellers in good spirits

Cattle moving in greater numbers

Huge canola prices likely finished

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