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A Ukrainian farmer sows his fields wearing a military helmet and body armour.

PHOTOS: Unsupplied farmers, risky seeding and blocked shipping lanes

Raging war in Ukraine is set to play havoc with global food supplies

By Ihor Pavliuk May 4, 2022

In early April, Ukrainian soldiers expelled Russian invaders from the northern regions of Ukraine: Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The wounded enemy left, leaving behind burned-out war machines and the unburied corpses of soldiers. However, the invaders managed to do a lot of damage. Many of you are probably aware of the atrocities uncovered after

Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Weather, loonie raise wheat bids

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News April 30, 2022

MarketsFarm — Adverse weather on both ends of the U.S. Plains as well as a weaker Canadian dollar were both supportive factors for western Canadian wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. For the second straight weekend, a Colorado low system hit the northern Plains as well as the eastern Prairie provinces on Sunday and

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

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat futures fall after rains

Chicago soybeans, corn flat

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 30, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to three-week lows on Friday, led by hard red winter wheat contracts after showers in key growing parts of the U.S. Plains provided a much needed boost to soil moisture, traders said. Corn futures ended unchanged after spiking to their highest in nearly 10 years for the

Markets, News

U.S. planting delays, Ukraine war prop prices

By Naveen Thukral April 28, 2022

Reuters – Chicago corn was largely unchanged on Wednesday and near a decade high, scaled in the previous session, as traders fretted over planting delays in the United States and a lack of supplies from wartorn Ukraine. Soybeans and wheat, meanwhile, inched higher. The most active corn contract, Cv1, was unmoved at $7.9975 a bushel,

For many farmers, who have already been pushing their rotations to the limit, stronger competition from other crops will likely limit any acreage increase for canola.

Grain Markets, Markets

Old- and new-crop canola values continue climbing

Traders aren’t yet counting on a sea of yellow on the Prairies this summer

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 28, 2022

Another week, another round of fresh highs in canola futures as the bullish uptrend in the market showed no signs of subsiding. A profit-taking correction always remains a possibility, but as traders like to say, ‘the trend is your friend… until it’s not.’ The new-crop November contract posted the biggest gains during the week ended

CBOT July 2022 soyoil (candlesticks, right column) with July 2022 soybeans (yellow line, left column). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soyoil futures rally to record high

Corn hits highest since August 2012

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 27, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soyoil futures surged to a record high on Wednesday after Indonesia broadened its export ban on raw materials for cooking oil to fight food inflation, traders said. “The move dramatically tightens an already tight global supply of edible oils that saw global prices surge when the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: CBOT soyoil futures fall from highs; pull soybeans lower

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 25, 2022

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures fell on Monday, retreating from all-time highs after Indonesia’s agriculture ministry said that crude palm oil shipments would be excluded from a planned palm oil export ban. The weakness in soyoil pressured soybeans and soymeal, which also faced bearish headwinds from a sharp drop in

Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Red spring falls back, durum rises

U.S. wheat futures down on week

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 23, 2022

MarketsFarm — Wheat prices on the Prairies during the week ended Thursday incurred moderate losses in Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) while durum (CWAD) pushed upward. Declines in the U.S. wheat complex led the way, with a higher Canadian dollar this week adding more pressure on Prairie wheat prices.

Critics of the existing regulatory framework say cereals productivity has lagged, while others say the numbers don’t support this assertion.

Cereals, News

Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

Seed firms may not like the rules, but they don’t seem to have much sense of what they’d like to see replace them

By Allan Dawson April 22, 2022

Three meetings, over three weeks, and a total of nine hours later, Brett Halstead says he still doesn’t know what regulatory changes the seed industry wants. “I still haven’t really heard what the problems are,” the Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission said during the final online Seed Summit meeting Feb.

Emerging winter wheat plants. (File photo by Laura Rance)

Crops, Weather

Not warm enough yet for accurate read on Ontario winter crops

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm April 22, 2022

MarketsFarm –– The crop report on Wednesday from Ontario’s ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs (OMAFRA) notes a lack of temperatures warm enough to accurately assess winter crops and/or to begin spring planting. OMAFRA determined winter wheat that was seeded on time looks healthier than what was planted later in the fall. Also, water

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

Winter wheat

PHOTOS: Unsupplied farmers, risky seeding and blocked shipping lanes

Prairie cash wheat: Weather, loonie raise wheat bids

U.S. grains: Wheat futures fall after rains

U.S. planting delays, Ukraine war prop prices

Old- and new-crop canola values continue climbing

U.S. grains: Soyoil futures rally to record high

U.S. grains: CBOT soyoil futures fall from highs; pull soybeans lower

Prairie cash wheat: Red spring falls back, durum rises

Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

Not warm enough yet for accurate read on Ontario winter crops

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