Barley Outlook Poor Despite Small Crop

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. 3 lower, with big declines in canola. Canola was undermined by weakness in the Chicago soy complex, the beginning of the harvest, favourable weather

Big U. S. Soy, Corn Crops May Deflate Price Boom

U. S. farmers this year will reap their largest soybean crop ever and their second-largest corn crop, mammoth harvests that will deflate an ethanol-fuelled price boom, the government said Aug. 12. In its first estimate of the fall harvest, the Agriculture Department estimated the soybean crop would be a record 3.199 billion bushels, up eight


USDA Shocks Markets, But What’s Changed?

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 July 3 mixed. Canola was lower in the old crop as demand slowed and liquidation of July contracts sent prices down. Bearish technical signals weighed

Canola To Top $500 In 2009-10

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 June 12 lower. Canola was undermined by losses in the Chicago soyoil market and the absence of fresh demand. China has withdrawn from the market


Grain Markets Turning Increasingly Bullish

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 May 14 mixed. Canola was higher, supported by strength in the U. S. soy complex. Canola was also lifted by a strong export lineup, favourable

U. S. Soybean Stockpile Reduced

U. S. soybean exports will hit a record 1.21 billion bushels this marketing year, helping whittle the U. S. stockpile to 165 million bushels, the smallest in five years, the government forecast on April 9. “That is a tight number,” Don Roose, analyst for U. S. Commodities, said of the stockpile, roughly a three-week supply.


Grain Markets Turning Friendly Despite Flu

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 May 1 higher, with gains in the U. S. markets giving a boost to Winnipeg prices. The gains, however, were offset by a rally in

Weekend Storms Bring Cheer To U. S. Wheat Farmers

Oklahoma wheat farmer Keith Kisling had two words for the late winter snowstorm that swept across the U. S. Plains over the weekend: “Perfect timing.” After an extended run of an extremely dry winter, farmers throughout key winter wheat-growing U. S. states largely welcomed the several inches of snow, ice and rain that hit March


Weather Becoming Market Focus

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended April 9 mainly lower. Canola saw small losses, undermined by slowing demand and the large available canola supplies still on-farm in Western Canada. Canola declined

Oilseed Markets Under Pressure For Now

Large global oilseed supplies, a lack of economic confidence, and expectations for increased world oilseed production, should all serve to keep U. S. soybean and Canadian canola markets under pressure through the first half of 2009, according to a U. S. analyst speaking at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld Conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 23.