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Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices hang tight, await new crop

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 24, 2018

CNS Canada — The thought of sizzling days near the end of May 2017 is helping keep feed barley prices in Western Canada well supported, according to a market-watcher. “There is that memory of last year’s drought and seeing temperatures in the high 20s and 30s at the end of May,” said Allan Pirness of

A wheat crop in progress on May 24, 2016 north of London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat hits 10-month high on weather, turns lower

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume May 24, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures eased from 10-month peaks on Thursday as profit-taking eroded early gains stemming from dry weather in the U.S. Plains and other major growing areas around the world. Soybeans slipped from three-week highs as hedge-related selling offset earlier support from signs of renewed export demand from top buyer China.

Other, Weather

Is the ‘D’ word rearing its ugly head?

Agricultural Manitoba is going into seeding with below-average precipitation in the bank

By Daniel Bezte May 14, 2018

After a dry to very dry winter and spring across agricultural Manitoba, there comes a time when we have to begin talking about the dreaded “D” word: drought. Looking up some definitions of drought, here is what I have found: In the most general sense, drought originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended

Manitoba cattle producers are hoping for rain to reinvigorate dry pastures after a late spring.

Livestock, Local news, Other

Livestock producers ponder pasture stocking

Livestock operations are topping off feed supplies or looking  to stretch what they have as a late, dry spring has pastures lagging

By Alexis Stockford May 14, 2018

Manitoba’s cattle producers find themselves facing a serious hangover after a lingering winter and extremely dry start to the spring. They’re making tough decisions about whether or not to put cattle onto pasture now, with scant regrowth, or to keep their animals on feed. Darren Chapman, Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association chair, is among those

Markets, Weather

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Prices of Canadian farmland were seen rising in 2017, with most sales happening in the first half of 2017 before interest rate increases and the drought in Western Canada hit. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report released Monday by Farm Credit Canada (FCC), based on 90 per cent of farmland

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat at one-week low on wetter U.S. outlooks

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 13, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Friday to a one-week low, pressured by forecasts for much-needed rain late next week in the southern Plains winter wheat belt, analysts said. Corn followed wheat lower amid a lack of fresh supportive news, and soybeans turned down, erasing early advances, as nervous traders booked profits

A gaucho drives a carriage through the pampas (lowland plains), a primary farming and ranching region of Argentina. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Weather

Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein March 12, 2018

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Hope has withered for any recovery in Argentine soy yields hit by a four-month drought that shows no signs of abating, farmers and analysts said Monday, prompting China to step in to fill the gap in soymeal exports from the world’s No. 1 supplier. The dryness that has blighted the

Crops, Weather

Late-season snowstorm brings Prairies moisture

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — After a winter spent waiting for snow, farmers across the southern Prairies were happy when the forecast was right and Western Canada received a late winter snowstorm. “We’ve heard moisture’s coming before and it doesn’t show up or it goes around us. So when it started snowing and it started adding up

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat eases on stable crop conditions after price surge

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer March 6, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. winter wheat futures fell on Tuesday as crop conditions stabilized in the dry Plains growing region and buying interest waned following a surge that brought prices to an eight-week high last week, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade May wheat futures eased 2-1/4 cents to $5.07 per bushel, trimming declines

Hard white winter wheat growing in North Carolina in 2010. (Dave Marshall photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat notches fifth day of gains

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub February 28, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures jumped 3.3 per cent on Wednesday to their highest level in more than seven months, breaking through key technical barriers on support from concerns about crop development in the U.S. Plains, traders said. The gains in the wheat market spilled over into

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Wheat futures slide on rising world production estimates

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs mostly up

CBOT weekly: Sideways trade likely through holidays

Tag Archives Drought

Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices hang tight, await new crop

U.S. grains: Wheat hits 10-month high on weather, turns lower

Is the ‘D’ word rearing its ugly head?

Livestock producers ponder pasture stocking

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

U.S. grains: Wheat at one-week low on wetter U.S. outlooks

Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

Late-season snowstorm brings Prairies moisture

U.S. grains: Wheat eases on stable crop conditions after price surge

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat notches fifth day of gains

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