Wittal: CWB and open market need deliveries

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. Markets were down overnight, but as the day markets opened things seemed a little more optimistic and markets bounced up off of […] Read more

Wittal: grain futures catch swine flu

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. Swine flu! Who knew? Major market reaction or over-reaction to the swine flu outbreak sent grains tumbling today. Concerns that a drop […] Read more


Wittal: StatsCan canola acreage surprise

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. The Stats Canada seeded acreage report had a few surprises today from what I thought the acres might be. Canola coming in […] Read more


Market Report

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. It was a quiet day over all as outside financial markets in China and Japan showed some weakness overnight and that carried over into […] Read more


Wittal: purchases and weather bring some recovery

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. A little good news always helps ! Reports of China buying beans and Pakistan buying Canadian canola today helped  oilseeds to regain most […] Read more

Wittal: Crop futures follow financial markets down

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. A lack of any new good news on the financial front convinced traders it was time to take profits after last week’s […] Read more

Wittal: Weather outlook pressures corn futures

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 17 — The markets over all seem to have turned more positive this past week on continued talk that maybe we […] Read more


Wittal: USDA reports seen neutral to bullish

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 8 — Financial markets were able to settle back down and actually show small gains today which hopefully they can hold […] Read more

Wittal: Bullish financial markets pressure grains

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. April 7 — Financial markets are slowly giving back the gains from last week. The lack of any news to help build […] Read more