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Numbers Don’t Add Up

March 3, 2011

I can’t understand why Jack Pawich only received $2.45 for his No. 1 Red Spring wheat (Manitoba Co-operatorFeb. 17.) After reading his letter in your paper, I went and added up all my tickets for 2009 wheat, from initial up to final payment and we got $5.81 per bushel net after all elevator and freight

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Price Of Wheat Is Too Low

February 24, 2011

Concerning the No. 1 wheat Jack Pawich of Cartwright sold for $2.45 per bushel (Manitoba Co-operatorFeb. 17), I had some No. 1 wheat and No. 2 wheat and averaged $5.03 per bushel.

Crops

McKnight Farms Wins Corn Competition Again

By Allan Dawson February 17, 2011

McKnight Farms of Roland has won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s (MCGA) annual corn yield contest for the second year in a row with a yield of 245.29 bushels an acre. That’s almost five per cent higher than McKnight’s 2009 winning yield of 198.17. It was with the same corn hybrid, Pioneer Hi-Bred’s 39D97, grown

Cereals, Crops

Growers Favour Barley Over Wheat

By Brent Harder February 10, 2011

With wheat showi ng strong returns across Western Canada, it appears producers are showing more interest in wheat than barley “Wheat is garnering a significant portion of the acre increase, barley a little less so at the moment,” said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis with the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg. Bill

Crops, Oilseeds

Higher Prices Ration Flaxseed Demand

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 13, 2011

High flaxseed bids are causing end-users to ration demand, slowing the reduction of Canada’s tightening supplies. Flaxseed bids as high as $15.75 per bushel, f.o.b. farm, can currently be found in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to the latest Prairie Ag Hotwire data. Market participants said prices were hitting $16 per bushel in some limited cases.

Cereals, Crops, News

Wheat May Peak Near $11 In 2011 On Weather

By Karl Plume January 13, 2011

U.S. wheat prices will rise above $8.50 a bushel this spring and may approach $11 if adverse weather damages the crop in the United States and other top growing nations, said an analyst who was the second closest in predicting prices in a Reuters poll last year. Worries about snug global supplies of milling wheat

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Dec. 9, 2010

December 9, 2010

Winter wheat breeder heads south:Francois Marais, a visiting scientist at Winnipeg’s federal Cereal Research Centre, has picked up a new post at North Dakota State University’s plant sciences department as a winter wheat breeder and geneticist. Marais, who has a doctorate in cereal technology from NDSU and degrees in genetics from South Africa’s Universiteit Stellenbosch,

News, Oilseeds

Manitoba Produces Record Soybean Crop

By Brent Harder December 9, 2010

Manitoba producers planted a record number of soybean acres in 2010, and the result was a record crop. “The soybean crop seemed to handle the excess moisture as good as any crop did, and the growing conditions were such that it allowed that type of plant to produce well,” said Roger Kissick, a product manager

Grain Markets

Flax Price Seen Hitting Peak Soon

By Brent Harder November 11, 2010

The price for flaxseed has been steadily increasing across the Prairies, but one industry participant thinks the bullish days may be coming to an end in the near future. Ben Friesen, commodity purchasing manager with Keystone Grains at Winkler, said although elevators aren’t saying it, the price flax has been at $15 per bushel for

Grain Markets, Pulses

CWB Pool Forecasts

November 4, 2010

No. 1 CWRS 13.5 No. 1 CWRS 12.5 No. 2 CWRS 13.5 No. 1 CWHWS 13.5 No. 1 CPSR No. 1 CPSW No. 1 CWRW No. 1 CWES No. 1 CWSWS No. 1 CWAD 13.0 October PRO 2010-11 308 293 296 308 255 252 249 278 250 September PRO 2010-11 300 286 288 300 247

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