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Prairie Wheat Weekly: Most Western Canadian wheat bids rise

By Adam Peleshaty - Marketsfarm September 6, 2024

Western Canadian wheat bids were mostly higher during the week ended Sept. 5, following the lead of United States wheat futures. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the country’s spring wheat harvest to be 70 per cent complete as of the start of September, matching the five-year average and being two points ahead of last […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Feed Weekly: More grain to enter feed markets

By Adam Peleshaty - Marketsfarm September 5, 2024

Feed barley and feed wheat are in no short supply on the Prairies, according to Jim Beusekom, president of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, Alta. He has recently seen light test-weight barley and wheat coming from various places in Western Canada being shipped to feedlots. Beusekom added the feed grains were coming from “almost everywhere […] Read more

Markets

ICE Weekly: Canola market suddenly in a very bad position

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 4, 2024

China caused a great deal of turmoil in the canola market on Sept. 3, leading prices to tumble on the Intercontinental Exchange. To senior market analyst Mike Jubinville of MarketsFarm, China dramatically changed canola’s outlook in fell swoop. The Chinese government announced that it was launching an investigation into alleged canola dumping by Canada. This […] Read more

Markets, News

CBOT Weekly: Soybeans, corn off lows, sideways trade likely through harvest

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 4, 2024

Soybean, corn and wheat futures in the United States were all showing modest strength in early September, recovering off their August lows as speculators bought back previously sold positions. “We’re seeing a little bit of short covering in these markets and the contract lows, at least over the short term, may be in,” said Terry […] Read more

Crops, News

Australian crop production estimates rising: ABARES

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 3, 2024

Australian wheat and barley production in 2024/25 is expected to be larger than earlier estimates and well above what was grown the previous crop year, according to updated estimates from the Australia’s agriculture department (ABARES). Wheat production was forecast at 31.8 million tonnes in the September ABARES report, which would be up by 2.7 million […] Read more

Markets

Pulse Weekly: Australian chickpea crop sees major expansion

By Adam Peleshaty - Marketsfarm September 3, 2024

Australia will see its largest chickpea crop in nearly a decade, according to winter crop production estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARES) on Sept. 3. The agency forecasted 1.333 million tonnes of chickpea production over a seeded area of 1.900 million acres for the 2024-25 crop year, 70 per […] Read more

News

Ontario fertilizer prices at mercy of outside forces

Rail labour uproar and prospect of U.S. bumper crop make market insights muddy

By Stew Slater September 3, 2024

A railway labour disruption in Canada and the prospect of a massive crop in the U.S. Midwest leave too many questions for clear pronouncements on fertilizer or commodity market directions in Ontario.

Markets

USDA adjusts August supply and demand numbers

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 12, 2024

While the United States Department of Agriculture raised its yield projections for 2024/25 in its latest supply and demand report on Aug. 12, production varied from the July estimates due to changes in the amount of planted acres. The August edition of the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates is its first report in […] Read more

Markets

USDA forecasts record soy, bumper corn crops

By Heather Schlitz August 12, 2024

Reuters – The U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its estimates for corn and soybean production from a month earlier on Monday, adding to expectations of hefty global supplies of both crops. The agency raised its estimate for the 2024/25 soybean crop to a record 4.589 billion bushels, above 4.435 billion bushels seen last month and exceeding 4.469 billion bushels expected by analysts. USDA forecast a […] Read more

Canada supplies a small amount of China’s imports, and therefore has to pay some attention to managing Chinese importers as important customers.

Markets, Markets/Business

Gauging China’s market risk

What does history say about managing China’s market potential and politics?

By Matt McIntosh August 12, 2024

China provides risk and reward for Canadian agriculture exporters. With rhetoric escalating around the world, the risk could become a greater challenge. With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Houthis taking potshots at shipping vessels in the Red Sea, and China increasingly aggressive in the Indo-Pacific, war and near-kinetic levels of conflict have thrown several […] Read more

Tag Archives grain markets — page 4

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Most Western Canadian wheat bids rise

Feed Weekly: More grain to enter feed markets

ICE Weekly: Canola market suddenly in a very bad position

CBOT Weekly: Soybeans, corn off lows, sideways trade likely through harvest

Australian crop production estimates rising: ABARES

Pulse Weekly: Australian chickpea crop sees major expansion

Ontario fertilizer prices at mercy of outside forces

USDA adjusts August supply and demand numbers

USDA forecasts record soy, bumper corn crops

Gauging China’s market risk

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