Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids rise on weather woes, tight old-crop supplies

MarketsFarm -- Tight old-crop supplies and mounting weather concerns over new-crop production are keeping feed grain prices well supported in Western Canada as end-users work to ration supplies. "We've seen a very real weather market emerge in the last few weeks," said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta., pointing to wet conditions hampering[...]

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulses steady in sea of uncertainty

MarketsFarm -- Every spring offers its own mystery of what the growing season will bring, and this year is no different for western Canadian pulse markets. However, while the unknowns are usually linked to the weather or acreage ideas, this year also presents extra challenges for the pulse sector. India remains a major wildcard in[...]


Feed weekly outlook: Western Canadian market stabilizing

MarketsFarm -- Western Canadian feed grain prices have come under pressure over the last month, but appear to be stabilizing as attention turns to spring seeding across the Prairies. "We've been steadily dropping for the past few weeks, and it's leveled out now," said Tracey Green, grain broker with Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. Buyers[...]

Grain World: Canadian canola acres shifting into wheat

Canadian farmers will plant more spring wheat and less canola in 2013, said Brenda Tjaden Lepp, chief analyst with FarmLink Marketing Solutions in a presentation at the annual Wild Oats Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 25.
Factoring in relative returns, rotational issues, and what she was hearing from clients, Tjaden Lepp forecast spring wheat area[...]



Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

CNS Canada -- Canadian farmers planted their largest chickpea crop in more than a decade in 2018, with the bigger crop likely to lead to a wider price spread between larger- and smaller-calibre supplies. Statistics Canada has placed chickpea acreage for 2018 at 468,900 acres, which would be well above the 160,000 acres planted in[...]


Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan acreage ideas hold firm

CNS Canada -- Disruptions in marketing to India may have cut into prices for peas and lentils over the past year, but farmers in Saskatchewan did not shift their pulse acreage intentions for 2018 all that much according to the results of Statistics Canada's latest survey, released Friday. Saskatchewan farmers intend to seed 2.171 million[...]

Chickpeas seen making Prairie comeback

CNS Canada -- Chickpeas should see a resurgence in Western Canada this spring, as farmers who hadn't seeded the crop for a number of years shift some acres back from other pulses. "We sold a sizeable amount of chickpea planting seed," said Colin Young of Midwest Grain at Moose Jaw. After an excellent quality year[...]


Fossil fuels here to stay... for now

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Renewable sources of energy may be the future, but that future is not coming any time soon as fossil fuels will be needed to continue to power the world for generations, according to author and professor emeritus Vaclav Smil, speaking at the Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Nov. 14. “We[...]

ICE weekly outlook: Seasonal uptrend possible for canola

CNS Canada -- ICE Futures Canada canola contracts trended higher over the past month, but appear to be running into resistance from a chart standpoint. Seasonal price trends, however, should see values continue their uptrend over the next month. The most-active November contract has now traded above the $500 per tonne level for five straight[...]