CBOT December 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with MGEX December 2022 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybeans, corn fall on demand concerns

CBOT December wheat touches four-week low

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, corn and soybean futures fell on Tuesday on concerns that overseas buyers will turn to alternative supplies to meet their import needs, traders said. “Consistently high prices are slowly doing their job of eroding demand across the board, with Brazil in particular among a group of global players that

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Feds back Montreal port grain terminal for upgrades

CanEst crop container terminal funded for equipment, capacity improvements

CanEst Transit’s grain container terminal at the Port of Montreal is putting $8 million in federal funding toward new equipment and improvements to current infrastructure. Transport Canada, in a release Wednesday, said the goal of the terminal project is to “increase the number of containers stored onsite, improve the quality of the grain-cleaning service, optimize


CBOT December 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (black line), MGEX December 2022 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybean futures end firm

Chicago December corn weakens

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures ended slightly higher on Monday but closed well off their session peaks as traders monitored developments in efforts to keep a Black Sea shipping lane open for Ukraine grain exports. Corn futures sank on seasonal harvest pressure while soybeans firmed on bullish export data, traders said. Wheat surged

File photo of a sunrise over an Alberta barley crop. (MNphotography/iStock/Getty Images)

Alberta issues final crop report for year

Harvest over 98 per cent done by region and crop type

MarketsFarm –– For the second year in a row the Alberta harvest wrapped up well ahead of the five-year average. With a gain of three points for the week ended Tuesday, Alberta Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development (AFRED) pegged the combining of major crops at 99.2 per cent complete. That’s 22 and a half


A man looks through piles of trash on a stream in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Oct. 13, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo)

Haiti gang blockade causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. says

Situation "close to breaking point," WFP rep says

Miami | Reuters — Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, U.N. officials said on Friday, with more than four million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of gangs has prevented the distribution of diesel and gasoline for over a month to protest a plan to cut fuel subsidies.

CBOT December 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2), MGEX December 2022 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on firm dollar, hopes for Black Sea talks

Lower wheat, dull demand weigh on corn, soybeans

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Friday, surrendering all the prior session’s gains on a stronger dollar and hopes of progress in negotiations to maintain a Ukrainian Black Sea grain export corridor. Corn and soybeans followed wheat lower, weighed down by lacklustre demand and pressured by lower energy and equities markets. On


Alex Griffiths from DUC provides on-farm winter wheat advice.

Winter cereals stuck in catch-22 this fall

Conditions were ideal but the timing was off, despite grower interest

Conditions were nearly perfect for seeding winter cereals this fall but poor timing will likely temper the growth of seeded acres. Manitoba Agriculture cereals specialist Anne Kirk says seeded acres of winter cereals increased last year but it’s difficult to know whether the trend will continue. “I think that conditions would have been good for

Crop quality ‘complete turnaround’: Cereals Canada

Crop quality ‘complete turnaround’: Cereals Canada

Good harvest conditions have delayed Cereals Canada’s Harvest Assessment Program

Preliminary estimates suggest better cereal crop quality this year compared to 2021, says Elaine Sopiwnyk, vice-president, technical services for Cereals Canada. Formal results from the organization’s harvest assessment program are not yet available, but estimates from Cereals Canada’s weekly calls with the exporters that participate in the program suggest things look good. “What we’ve heard


“These regulatory updates have been made to reflect and keep pace with the current operational realities of grain handling and delivery in Canada.” – Canadian Grain Commission.

Grain commission changes advance grading dispute timeline

Producers have a week to ask the CGC to intervene if they want to challenge their initial grain grade

Grain farmers have a larger window in which to ask the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) for a second opinion if they want to dispute the grade they get at the elevator. The commission announced Oct. 3 that producers will have a week past their delivery date to ask that a sample be submitted to the

Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn at Abbotsford, B.C. are rescued on Nov. 16, 2021 by people in boats and on a jet-ski after rainstorms lashed the province, triggering landslides and floods and shutting highways. (File photo: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)

Drought-stricken B.C. bracing for floods when rains return

Reuters — British Columbia on Thursday warned residents to prepare for flooding when rains eventually return after a prolonged drought exacerbated by climate change that has raised concerns about long-term damage to ecosystems ranging from glaciers to salmon rivers. The usually rainy western province has experienced weeks of record-breaking warm fall temperatures and minimal precipitation