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CWB’s 2009-10 Malt Barley Initials Raised

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2010

Prairie barley growers will get a raise on initial payments on malting barley delivered to the Canadian Wheat Board for the 2009-10 crop year. The federal government approved and the CWB announced on March 12 that the 2009-10 initial payments for all grades and classes of designated barley will increase by $26.50 per tonne, effective

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

By Karl Plume March 25, 2010

“(Russia is) essentially taking bushel for bushel market share away from the U. S. while we are focused on burning our food (as biofuel).” – BILL LAPP, ADVANCED ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS U. S. wheat production and slumping exports will continue to fade in coming years due to increasing competition in the global marketplace from lower-cost producers

Crops, Dairy cattle, Oilseeds

U. S. Crops, China Becomes Top Soy User

By Charles Abbott March 18, 2010

U. S. farmers will grow the second-largest corn and soybean crops on record this year – 13.134 billion bushels of corn and 3.213 billion bushels of soybeans, just below the records set in 2009, said a University of Missouri think-tank March 9. The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute also said U. S. wheat production

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Grain Stockpiles Swell As Sales Slow

By Charles Abbott March 18, 2010

U. S. corn and wheat stockpiles will swell to their largest size in years as corn exports slow and Americans use less flour, the government said on March 10 in a report likely to influence planting this spring. Record crops, despite last year’s rain, flooding and snow, are still in the marketing stream. The supplies

News

McKnight Wins 2009 Corn Yield Competition

By Allan Dawson February 18, 2010

“Our organization is strong, growing, there’s a lot of interest in corn.” – MURRAY PRITCHARD Harry McKnight of Roland is the winner of the 2009 corn yield competition organized by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA) with a yield of 198.17 bushels an acre. McKnight grew Pioneer Hi-Bred’s 39D97 in 30-inch rows. The crop had

Crops, News

MASC Explains “Grade Factor” Math

By Allan Dawson February 18, 2010

“Probably the biggest part of our problem was we included an example in there.” – DAVID VAN DEYNZE MASC says an example used in a letter to corn growers last fall to help explain changes to how it would calculate insurance claims created confusion that left some farmers feeling misled. “Probably the biggest part of

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Analysts Weigh In With New-Crop Prices Forecasts

By Kevin Hursh January 21, 2010

It’s refreshing to see an analyst come up with actual price forecasts, rather than just dancing around all the issues. What numbers should a producer pencil in for crop prices in the new crop year? That was the multibillion-dollar question for the thousands of producers attending Crop Production Week and the Western Canadian Crop Production

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

USDA Shakes Markets, Highs Likely Behind Us

By Don Bousquet January 21, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Jan. 15 lower, with canola seeing the biggest slide. Canola was pressured down by the weakness in the Chicago soy

News, Oilseeds

Grain Volatility To Stay High In 2010

By Karl Plume November 12, 2009

Prices of agricultural commodities will remain volatile in 2010 due to supply constraints, volatile shipping costs and a constant demand pull from new demand sources like biofuels, North American Export Grain Association president and CEO Gary Martin said Nov. 3. “In the last three years, volatility in this industry has increased and it’s likely to

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Reports Suggest Poorer 2009-10 Price Outlook

By Don Bousquet September 17, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 11 lower. Canola was undermined by the weak tone in the Chicago soy complex, the advancing harvest, favourable weather and no significant frost threat.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures mixed ahead of Thanksgiving holiday

Pulse Weekly: Looking for trade deal to benefit Canadian growers

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans firm as traders hope for more Chinese buying

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