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CBOT March 2023 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (green line), MGEX March 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. March 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Futures slip on rail strike threat, EU wheat talk

U.S. winter crop ratings at lowest since at least 1986

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter November 23, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain futures fell on Tuesday, amid growing concern over a possible U.S. rail strike and market speculation that U.S. grain buyers were purchasing European Union wheat, traders said. French wheat sales to China and the prospect of Polish or German wheat being booked in the United States

Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Bids steady following Ukraine volatility

U.S. wheat futures up on week

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News November 18, 2022

MarketsFarm — A roller-coaster type of week for grain markets, fuelled by the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, ended with slightly higher bids for western Canadian wheat for the week ended Thursday. As optimism grew over the renewal of Russia’s agreement to allow Ukrainian grain shipments on the Black Sea, wheat futures on the

File photo of a snow-topped field in Alberta. (Don White/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

Cold, snowy start seen to Prairies’ winter

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2022

MarketsFarm — Although the official calendar start to winter isn’t until Dec. 21, conditions on the Canadian Prairies are now winter-like, according to Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler. “For the month of November, it looks like we’re off to a cold start for most of the Prairies. The western Prairies… had quite a significant winter

Rick Andrews and his wife Judy at the DUC land dedication event.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

DUC honours conservation leader

Long-serving staff member recognized his love for nature at an early age

By Don Norman November 7, 2022

As a child, Rick Andrews could see the future. “I was one of those very fortunate people who knew what I wanted to do at a very young age,” he says. By the time Andrews was in his pre-teens, he had become enamoured with the outdoors and knew he wanted to work in conservation and

Aphids were once again a problem to contend with this year.

News

It’s a wrap on harvest 2022

Late seeding, wet conditions affected almost all aspects of this year’s crop

By Don Norman October 31, 2022

Despite normal or slightly above average crop quality and yield, it was far from a typical year for most farmers. For the province’s roll call of extension specialists, it wasn’t a typical year either. The extreme weather swing this year compared to 2021 left grain farmers fighting late seeding, different staging for insects and disease pressure but yields

Gary Millershaski, a farmer and scout on the Wheat Quality Council’s Kansas wheat tour, inspects winter wheat stunted by drought near Syracuse, Kansas, this past spring. Worries are already mounting there may be a repeat.

News, Weather

U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust

Analysts say despite historically high prices for time of year, acreage could fall

By Julie Ingwersen October 31, 2022

Reuters – With planting roughly halfway complete, as of Oct. 17, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. Planting plans may be scaled back in the U.S. breadbasket despite historically high prices for this time of year, reflecting

Grain Markets, Markets

Bullish signals loom large over rangebound canola trade

Supplies in the commercial pipeline remain large for now

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 27, 2022

The ICE Futures canola market held rangebound during the week ended Oct. 20, with historically wide crush margins and supportive underlying fundamentals still not enough to break values out of their sideways pattern. However, there were some bullish technical signs hinting a turn higher could be in the works. Intermonth spreading accounted for much of

Table 1: Percentage Harvest Completion by Crop and Region to Oct. 25, 2022.

Crop Report, Crops, News

Harvest in Manitoba 95 per cent complete, fertilizer applications ongoing

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 25, October 25, 2022

By Manitoba Agriculture October 25, 2022

Overview Harvest progress sits at 95 per cent complete across the province. Harvest is wrapping up or done in most parts of southern Manitoba, and significant amounts of fall fieldwork, and surface drainage cleanout have been completed. Fall fertilizer application is generally behind last year’s pace. Fall anhydrous ammonia application continues as soils cool, but

A wheat field near the village of Zhovtneve, Ukraine in 2016. Photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko/File

Cereals, Crops

Ukraine keeps 2023 winter wheat sowing area forecast unchanged despite delays

By GFM Network News, Pavel Polityuk October 25, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine is keeping its forecast of the winter wheat sowing area for the 2023 harvest unchanged at 3.8 million hectares despite a delay caused by unfavourable weather, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy told Reuters on Tuesday. Ukraine sowed more than 6 million hectares of winter wheat for the 2022 harvest, but

Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Bids dip with U.S. futures

Loonie down 0.4 U.S. cent on the week

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin October 23, 2022

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Thursday, as losses in U.S. futures and a firmer tone in the Canadian dollar weighed on values. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down $2-$4.50 per tonne during the week, according to price quotes

Daily Network News

Court finds Sunterra liable to U.S. lender

Prairie forecast: Above-average temperatures across Prairies

Prairie CWRS wheat bids mixed to start February

Winter wheat