Winnipeg (CNS Canada) — Following a winter of tight feedgrain supplies that sparked a price rally in Western Canada, prices are starting to back off. “It’s been breaking free a little bit. Kind of surprisingly this year it took till seeding time to see that happen. We’ve seen markets rally right up till May,” said […] Read more
Barley
Prairie feedgrain prices startingto soften
Prices usually hold steady during seeding but that isn’t the case this year
Canola delay highlights regulatory headaches
Monsanto’s recent news release about the pending commercialization of its TruFlex canola looks eerily similar to one issued five years ago. Both releases contain many of the same quotes, but some of them are attributed to different company officials in the latest release. The biggest difference is the initial news release says the company hopes […] Read more
Firm finds way to make digital farming pay off
Farmers can help simplify their decision making process by bringing all farm information into one program
Decisive Farming is a business built at the intersection of product traceability and precision farming. “This is really a way for a farmer to get ahead of the curve on having really good digital records on the farm, and being able to share them efficiently across that supply chain so that they’re able to capture […] Read more
Mega surprise on mega ag mergers
You know there’s something up when you give farmers the chance to complain about grain companies and they don’t take it. I had that experience recently when I ran a Twitter poll asking farmers about their experiences with grain companies and whether that relationship had gotten worse in recent years. To my surprise few farmers […] Read more
On-farm grain stocks higher, says StatsCan report
Rail delays this winter and unfavourable market conditions are said to be the factors behind the higher stocks
Stocks of major crops in storage on prairie farms stood at nearly 29 million tonnes as of March 31, according to Statistics Canada’s Stocks of Grain and Oilseeds report, released May 11. That number included nearly 4.8 million tonnes in storage on Manitoba farms, 14.1 million tonnes in Saskatchewan and 10.2 million tonnes in Alberta. […] Read moreAWC now refunds checkoffs quicker
Alberta farmers who receive check-off refunds for their wheat will now be reimbursed about a month earlier than they previously were, thanks to new regulatory changes. The Alberta Wheat Commission made the changes in late April. It’s the first time the organization has updated its regulations since forming in 2012. Farmers had previously waited longer […] Read more
Exchange’s noble history deserves recognition as it leaves Winnipeg
Winnipeg’s 114-year futures-trading existence is ending much the way the Roman and British empires disappeared: with some nostalgia and regrets, but no panic, and an acceptance that its time was done. Most will never recognize it has happened. Farmers probably won’t be worse off after the Intercontinental Exchange, if it gets needed regulatory approval, takes […] Read more
Barley acreage may not increase
Winnipeg (CNS Canada) — After a slight delay to the start of seeding in southern Alberta, producers are out in the fields and it doesn’t yet look like they have seeded more shorter-season crops, such as feed barley. “Southern Alberta is a little bit later than normal (for seeding). But most areas, they’re kind of […] Read more
Manitoba seeding well underway in dry conditions
Winnipeg (CNS Canada) – While seeding has started across Manitoba, soils are dry and rain is needed to help with germination and emergence, according to the weekly crop report from Manitoba Ministry of Agriculture, released May 6. Spring cereals and peas are being planted throughout most of the province. In the central, eastern and Interlake […] Read more
Barley might be bouncing back from its recent doldrums
This could be the year of the big barley bounce back. It’s too early to tell if farmers were telling the truth to Statistics Canada about their seeding intentions, and weather can always throw honest intentions into a blender and puree them into an ugly mess, but as of early spring farmers said they were […] Read more
