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“There is still a pile of corn going into southern Alberta,” says one trader at Eagle Commodities Ltd. Photo: MaksymTopchyi/iStock/Getty Images

Feed weekly outlook: Decline in feed grain prices anticipated

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News June 29, 2022

MarketsFarm – Much-needed rains falling onto most parts of Alberta have created ideal growing conditions for feed grains in the province, which has already created a slight decline in prices. “Southern Alberta has been very, very dry, but we’ve had anywhere from four to six inches of rain over the last three weeks,” said Mike

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Argentina’s Bioceres says GMO wheat gets OK from U.S. FDA

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek June 27, 2022

London/Chicago | Reuters – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded a review of Argentine biotechnology firm Bioceres’ BIOX.BA genetically modified (GMO) wheat without further questions, a “key step” to commercializing it in the United States, the company said on Monday. While corn and soy crops used predominantly to feed livestock are commonly planted with

Price movement for both feed barley and feed wheat in Western Canada have been mixed. Photo: Canada Beef Inc.

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Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices starting to soften

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News June 23, 2022

MarketsFarm – It appears that the days of feedlots on the Prairies primarily using corn may be coming to an end. After nearly a year of feedlots importing corn from the United States, due to tight supply and higher prices for feed barley and feed wheat in Western Canada, demand has mostly turned towards cereal

A stand of kernza, a perennial distant relative of wheat.

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How scientific minds changed toward perennial grains

Early boosters were voices on the fringe: Today, perennial crops are sought by researchers worldwide — including Manitoba

By Geralyn Wichers June 16, 2022

In the early days of kernza — a perennial grain crop related to wheat — plant breeders at The Land Institute in Kansas couldn’t get a government grant to save their lives. “We got very nice compliments on our writing of the grant proposals and harsh criticism on the value of actually doing the work,”

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The (wheat) wonder Down Under

Australia set for third year of bumper wheat harvests, easing world supply woes

By Naveen Thukral June 15, 2022

Reuters – Australia is poised for a third year of near-record wheat production in 2022 as good weather boosts planting across its Grain Belt, easing concerns over tight global inventories. World wheat supplies have tightened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year cut off shipments from one of the top exporting regions, sending grain prices sharply higher and

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

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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.

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Seed regulation discussion has a long history

This conflict has been raging for years with few answers

By Allan Dawson April 22, 2022

Questions about what seed companies want aren’t new. Multinational firms have pushed for less regulation for years. The issue came up at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale’s (PRCWRT) meeting back in February 2013, in Saskatoon. “What is the one thing you think we should stop doing?” Stephen Fox, who at the

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Feed weekly outlook: Market stagnant as U.S. corn imports continue

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 14, 2022

MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are holding relatively steady for the time being, as end-users are well covered with corn imports from the United States. “It seems like most buyers have managed to cover themselves well into June with corn,” said Susanne Leclerc, owner of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton, adding that

“Canada’s variety evaluation, registration and classification system is world class as is the quality of milling wheat producers deliver into the system... ” – Gord Harrison, CNMA.

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Canadian millers loyal to Canadian wheat

Russian wheat is arriving in Canada as part of finished food products

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2022

Canadian millers are not importing Russian wheat, but it’s possible Russian wheat is an ingredient in some manufactured foods imported by Canada. That’s according to Canadian grain industry officials, reacting to a recent Globe and Mail story. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the bread we buy in Canada contains Russian wheat,” Sylvain Charlebois,

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Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat nudges higher, durum dips

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 25, 2022

MarketsFarm — Wheat prices on the Prairies during the week ended Friday saw moderate gains in Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheats while Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) eased slightly. The war in Ukraine continued to play havoc in the markets. After strong increases at the start of the

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U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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Feed weekly outlook: Decline in feed grain prices anticipated

Argentina’s Bioceres says GMO wheat gets OK from U.S. FDA

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices starting to soften

How scientific minds changed toward perennial grains

The (wheat) wonder Down Under

Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

Seed regulation discussion has a long history

Feed weekly outlook: Market stagnant as U.S. corn imports continue

Canadian millers loyal to Canadian wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat nudges higher, durum dips

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