MarketsFarm — Green and yellow pea seeding is well underway across the Prairies, causing new-crop prices to slide marginally while spot prices hold firm. As Dale McManus, a broker with Johnston Grain at Welwyn, Sask., explained, seeded acres and new crop prices have an inverse relationship: as seeded acres rise, new crop prices fall. Producers […] Read more

Pulse weekly outlook: Planted green, yellow peas lower prices

Prairie winter wheat conditions no cause for alarm, yet
CNS Canada — While it’s been a cold winter with little snow cover, there is still hope for the Prairies’ winter wheat crop as soil temperatures haven’t hit danger levels yet. “I checked the soil temperatures this morning across the Prairies and most of the soils are about -10 C and winter wheat at this […] Read more

Canada seen sowing slightly less canola, more durum
Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers are leaning toward planting slightly less canola and more durum wheat, a Reuters survey of 12 traders and analysts showed on Monday. Farmers still have plenty of time to change plans for seeding, which starts in most of the Prairies by May, but many have already bought some of […] Read more