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Pinto beans. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba has an OK dry bean crop

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 5, 2021

MarketsFarm — As with the great majority of field crops this year in Manitoba, dry beans have seen production fall due to excessive heat and severe drought, according to provincial pulse specialist Dennis Lange. “Dry beans usually do fairly well on drier years, but this year has been extremely dry for a lot of the

Crops, Markets, Weather

Prairie quinoa yields likely to be down this year

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 5, 2021

MarketsFarm — Shortly before the harvest of this year’s quinoa crop in Western Canada is about to start, expectations are for yields to be down from last year, according to Liam O’Halloran of the Northern Quinoa Production Corp. (NorQuin) in Saskatoon. “As well as everything else we had some areas that had a little bit

(Photo courtesy Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Canary seed prices rise as production drops

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 4, 2021

MarketsFarm — This year’s canary seed crop in Canada will be smaller than expected, according to Darren Yungmann, board chair of the Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan. “Overall, canary seed is one of the most susceptible to the drought when compared to other crops,” he said, noting it’s shallow-rooted and could not access any

File photo of a canola crop south of Ethelton, Sask. in 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Canada’s drought forces canola importers to turn elsewhere

'Importers...are going to be left out in the cold'

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel October 4, 2021

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s smallest canola harvest in 13 years, resulting from severe drought, is forcing importers like Japan and Mexico to pay more or scour other countries for the yellow-flowering oilseed. With the scant available Canadian canola fetching high prices, customers of the world’s biggest canola exporter are leaning more heavily on smaller-producing

A grain train pulls up alongside a cargo vessel at the Alliance Grain Terminal at Vancouver on Oct. 6, 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Canola exports down 72 per cent through eight weeks

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin October 2, 2021

MarketsFarm — Canadian canola and wheat exports continue to run well behind the year-ago pace, with movement of all crops down 34 per cent through the first eight weeks of the 2021-22 crop year. Total exports of all of the major grains, oilseeds and pulses as of Sunday, at 4.714 million tonnes, are down by

News, Other

Drought conditions raise stakes on fall weed control

Weeds threaten to reduce already low moisture reserves

By Alexis Stockford October 1, 2021

The province’s top weed expert is expecting to see lots of sprayers this fall, with many producers hoping to preserve every drop of water left in their soils. Late-summer rains broke Manitoba’s months-long dry spell for many regions, “but it’s still not nearly enough, so we’re going to have to be really careful,” said Kim

Crops, Markets

Tight U.S. soybean, corn stocks still beat expectations

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm September 30, 2021

MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn ending stocks in the U.S. may have been down sharply from the previous year, but still came in above trade expectations in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly stocks report. That data in turn weighed on futures prices at the Chicago Board of Trade. Soybean stocks in the country as

CBOT December 2021 wheat (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat futures surge as supplies drop to 14-year low

CBOT soybean futures hit lowest since Dec. 29

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter September 30, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures surged on Thursday, after the federal government reported that U.S. supplies of wheat have fallen to their lowest level since 2007 — and that the wheat harvest is the smallest seen in 19 years. At the same time, the country ended the Sept. 1 crop year with slightly

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. spring wheat crop down sharply in 2021

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 30, 2021

MarketsFarm — Spring wheat production in the United States was down sharply in 2021, according to the latest annual small grains report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Total spring wheat production was pegged at 9.01 million tonnes by the government agency, down 44 per cent from the 15.99 million tonnes grown the previous year.

Prices are high, but production is down. For farmers who signed forward pricing contracts that’s a difficult position. A different strategy might have given them the same protection with less risk.

Markets, News

Avoiding the grain contract blues

Delivery contracts aren’t the only game in town when it comes to managing price risk

By Allan Dawson September 30, 2021

The old saying goes “you’ll never go broke selling crops for a profit,” — but you could be in a financial pickle if you don’t deliver what you sold. That hard financial reality has put the long tradition of forward pricing contracts under the microscope this year. It’s prompting questions about the responsibility farmers and

Daily Network News

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

Record large Canadian wheat and canola crops: Statistics Canada

Tag Archives Drought

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba has an OK dry bean crop

Prairie quinoa yields likely to be down this year

Canary seed prices rise as production drops

Canada’s drought forces canola importers to turn elsewhere

Canola exports down 72 per cent through eight weeks

Drought conditions raise stakes on fall weed control

Tight U.S. soybean, corn stocks still beat expectations

U.S. grains: Wheat futures surge as supplies drop to 14-year low

U.S. spring wheat crop down sharply in 2021

Avoiding the grain contract blues

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