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Feed weekly outlook: Seeding on time in southern Alberta

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News April 29, 2022

MarketsFarm — As southern Alberta still reels from the effects of last summer’s drought, one trader expects spring seeding for feed grains to be on time. “I think it should be on schedule this year,” said Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. Planting has already started in some places around

Flags in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. (Inakiantonana/E+/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

EU crops to face some challenges in 2022-23

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm April 28, 2022

MarketsFarm — Total grain production in the European Union is expected to decrease overall by 2.4 per cent in 2022-23, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture attachés throughout the multi-nation bloc. For the coming crop year, they forecast production to be 286.02 million tonnes of wheat, corn, barley, rye, oats, mixed grains and others. One

A late-spring blizzard and following snowstorm brought close to 60 centimetres of snow near Somerset and half a metre near Miami from April 13-17, according to community precipitation monitor CoCoRaHs.

News, Weather

Late season snow makes for late seeding?

Fertilizer experts John Heard and Don Flaten have some crop nutrient advice

By Allan Dawson April 28, 2022

April really is the cruelest month. Or at least it was in Manitoba this year. Just as some fields, especially in south-central parts of the province, were turning black following Winnipeg’s sixth-snowiest winter on record, an Easter blizzard April 13-15, followed by a second storm days later, buried much of agro-Manitoba under 30 to 85

‘When thinking about replacing the lost grain, we should be clear about when that grain was supposed to be harvested and what humanity intended to do with it.’

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Ukraine grain hard to replace

Large shortfall will increase food prices around the globe

By Hana Trollman April 27, 2022

Ukraine and Russia produce a substantial amount of grain and other food for export. Ukraine alone produces a whopping six per cent of all food calories traded in the international market. At least it used to, before it was invaded by the world’s largest nuclear power. Russia, meanwhile, is the world’s largest exporter of wheat,

Yuri, a Ukrainian farmer, wears his body armour while preparing to work in a field on April 26, 2022 in the country’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Crops

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

By GFM Network News April 27, 2022

Zaporizhzhia | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia, are now wearing body armour to plough their fields. A week after the war started, grad rockets — bombs fired via a truck-mounted multiple-launch system — began falling right next door to the

Markets, News

French seeding down on wheat, up on barley, rapeseed

By Gus Trompiz, Sybille De La Hamaide April 26, 2022

Reuters – Farmers in France, the European Union’s biggest crop producer, are expected to cut back on wheat and sugar sowing for this year’s harvest, but expand barley and rapeseed area, the country’s Farm Ministry said April 12. The ministry pegged the 2022 area of soft wheat, France’s most grown cereal, at 4.79 million hectares

Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan predicts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2022

Lentil, corn, soy acres are also expected up from 2021, barley down

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm April 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers intend to seed more acres to wheat and less to canola in 2022, according to the first survey-based estimates from Statistics Canada for the upcoming crop year released Tuesday. Canola area is forecast at 20.9 million acres by the government agency, which would be down by seven per cent from the

Calves are being sold sooner than expected while cow culling rates are higher than normal. Photo: Thinkstock

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Adverse weather tempers feeder cattle market

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen April 26, 2022

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3-$4 on either side of unchanged. Southern Alberta experienced severe wind and dust storms last week which softened buying interest from a large portion of feedlot operators. At the same time, grass conditions are quite variable across the Prairies despite the recent precipitation. Cooler temperatures

Crops, Markets

Drought fears, fertilizer may affect Canadian acreage estimates

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News April 23, 2022

MarketsFarm — Traders and analysts awaiting Statistics Canada’s first survey-based acreage report for the 2022-23 crop year on Tuesday believe competition amongst crops — as well as their dependence on fertilizer, and the possibility of another drought this summer — will be determining factors. Canola stands as the best representation of traders’ concerns. Despite reaching

The UN says that the price of food could rise by up to 20 per cent as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, raising the risk of increased malnutrition.

News

Food prices hit record high in March, UN agency says

Ukraine conflict driving commodity price hikes

By Gus Trompiz April 22, 2022

Reuters – World food prices jumped nearly 13 per cent in March to a new record high as the war in Ukraine caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils, the UN food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food

Daily Network News

USDA defends $12 billion subsidy amid farm economy challenges

Canada December retail sales down 0.4 per cent; seen up 1.5 per cent in January

Feed Grains Weekly: Domestic prices remain flat

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