Here are a few tidbits I found particularly interesting from GrainWorld yesterday: 1) The Canadian Wheat Board’s malting barley market analyst for Australia and the Black Sea region, Arvin Pirness, said Greece’s grave fiscal problems, which are undermining the Euro and have helped it drop in value, may weaken European demand for durum. A weaker […] Read more
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Grist from the GrainWorld mill
Western Producer markets reporter Ed White will provide session-by-session coverage of the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference Feb. 22 and 23 on his blog. The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year. Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, […] Read more
Another bubble, anyone?
Western Producer markets reporter Ed White will provide session-by-session coverage of the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference Feb. 22 and 23 on his blog. The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year. Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, […] Read more
How about more of the same wheat prices?
Do you like today’s Pool Return Outlook prices for wheat and durum for the 2009-10 crop year? If you do, you’ll like the 2010-11 PRO, which was just released moments ago here in Winnipeg. It’s today’s PRO prices minus about five bucks. If you don’t like present prices, you won’t like the Canadian Wheat Board’s […] Read more
Trouble in the West
A leading weather analyst is predicting dry weather for the northwest Saskatchewan and central and northern Alberta (including the Peace River country) growing areas this spring. Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri told the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference this morning that he expects “trouble in the west.” That’s because certain […] Read more
Gambling on cheaper fertilizer?
Are you guessing that fertilizer prices might drop going into spring? That’s a gamble that fertilizer industry analyst David Asbridge of NPK Fertilizer Advisory Services wouldn’t join you in. He told attendees at the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg that he expects U.S. prices to move moderately higher moving into spring, so long […] Read more
Gambling on cheaper fertilizer
Western Producer markets reporter Ed White will provide session-by-session coverage of the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference Feb. 22 and 23 on his blog. The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year. Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, […] Read more
Trouble in the West
Western Producer markets reporter Ed White will provide session-by-session coverage of the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference Feb. 22 and 23 on his blog. The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year. Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, […] Read more
How about more of the same wheat prices?
Western Producer markets reporter Ed White will provide session-by-session coverage of the Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference Feb. 22 and 23 on his blog. The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year. Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, […] Read more
Which demand assumptions will the CWB rely upon?
What’s today’s outlook for the 2010-11 spring wheat crop? The best view today is provided by the hard red spring wheat contract on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Here’s a chart: I don’t know about you, but I find that pretty disappointing. Monday we’ll get a much more Canadian prairie-based, longer term outlook for the totality […] Read more
