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CWB Raises Wheat Export Target Again

January 13, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board on Jan. 4 raised its 2010-11 grain export target for the third time since midsummer, but bigger shipments from Western Canada will do little to ease global worries about a shortage of high-quality milling wheat. Too much rain last summer in Western Canada and during the current harvest in eastern Australia

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Bullish Grain Market Tone Continues Into The New Year

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 6, 2011

Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada platform moved higher during the thin Christmas/New Year’s period, as many participants moved to the sidelines. Farmers had generally shut their bins ahead of the new tax season, helping exaggerate the upward move. Dryness in Argentina, bullish technicals, steady domestic crusher demand, and a rally in CBOT

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

CGC Continues Researching Machines To Help Grain Grading

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2011

Someday distinctly green kernels in canola and sprout damage in wheat may no longer be grading factors. The hope is instruments in elevators will be able to precisely measure the chlorophyll content in canola and the falling number in wheat. Those are the real degrading factors end-users are trying to uncover by counting distinctly green

Crops, Pulses

Special Crops Estimates Increased

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 6, 2011

Ending stocks of the seven major pulse and special crops in Canada at the close of the 2010-11 crop year are expected to be higher than earlier expectations, according to updated supply-demand tables from Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada Market Analysis Division released mid-December. Ending stocks of the seven major special and pulse crops for

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Australia Wheat Quality Slumps In Bittersweet Harvest

By Bruce Hextall January 4, 2011

Up to half of Australia’s current wheat harvest could be downgraded to animal feed or low-grade milling grain, raising concerns for a severe global shortage of higher-quality wheat and marring the nation’s biggest crop in eight years. Crop analysts and farmers told Reuters that up to 50 per cent of the 2010-11 crop would be

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Freedom Cry No Excuse For Dishonest Deliveries

By Les Mcewan December 16, 2010

Alot can be learned while waiting in line at the elevator. One day I observed elevator employees climbing up on the top of a large semitrailer to probe a load of wheat for samples. For most small elevators, this would be considered unusual since the typical load is sampled as it is dumped into the

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Firm Demand, Tight Supply Support Canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 16, 2010

The ICE Futures Canada canola market hit some fresh contract highs during the week ended Dec. 10, but also ran into profit-taking that limited the upside. While market participants were still digesting the larger-than-expected production numbers put out by Statistics Canada on Dec. 3, those supplies are also being met with some pretty solid demand

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

By Carey Gillam December 16, 2010

U.S. wheat experts are growing increasingly concerned about the new winter wheat crop in parts of top producer Kansas and other Plains states, as persistently dry conditions erode production potential. Drought conditions are plaguing the entire western third of Kansas, which routinely is the top U.S. wheat-growing state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a

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,

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

It’s Your Business

By MarketsFarm Team December 9, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Canada trading platform posted some modest advances during the week ended Dec. 3, with some of the upward momentum coming from the general strength displayed by the outside oilseed markets. CBOT soybean and soyoil values both posted some significant advances on the week with new contract highs also established in

Daily Network News

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

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