(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Wheat trade hoping for big export year

CNS Canada –– Canadian wheat growers could find themselves popular with international buyers this winter, as world wheat stocks hit lows not seen for a decade. Marlene Boersch, managing partner at Mercantile Consulting Venture, said the present 26-day wheat supply available to world markets, once China’s stockpiles are removed from the equation, should boost prices






Dried Ear of Cereal crop in studio isolated against white background.

Prairie wheat bids march higher

As weather concerns continue to mount, prices head upwards

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada continued their climb upwards for the week ended Aug. 2. Heat and dryness concerns throughout Europe, the Black Sea region, and Australia continued to drive the United States futures markets higher during the week. Average Canada Western Red Spring (13.5 per cent CWRS) wheat prices were up

Wheat and US dollars

World weather concerns send Prairie wheat bids higher

Several key regional production estimates have been lowered

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada climbed higher during the week ended July 27, as heat and dryness concerns in a number of key wheat-growing regions of the world sparked a rally in the United States futures. Production estimates out of Europe, the Black Sea region, and Australia were all seeing downward revisions,



Western Canada’s wheat bids gain with U.S. futures

Western Canada’s wheat bids gain with U.S. futures

September MGEX, CBOT and K.C. wheat rose by between three and four per cent on the week

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada generally moved higher in most locations during the week ended July 20, tracking gains in the U.S. futures. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down by $9 per tonne in northwestern Saskatchewan but up by $9-$11 per tonne in most


Farmer Darrin Eck with his tractor and cotton planter near Harper, Kansas, May 11, 2018.

King Cotton makes a comeback

U.S. farmers in the southern plains are piling into the textile crop after souring on wheat

Farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma are planting more land with cotton than they have for decades as they ditch wheat, attracted by relatively high cotton prices and the crop’s ability to withstand drought. A 20 per cent increase from last year marks a sharp turnaround for the crop that once dominated the Mississippi Delta into