Wheat production in Germany (pictured here) is down as well as in the rest of Europe, Russia, and Australia. The summer’s price bounce is gone but the outlook for wheat prices remains favourable, say market watchers.

Wheat rally stalls at just the wrong time

Prices are off summer highs but a drop in global production sets the stage for another rally this winter

Reading Time: 3 minutes For much of this year’s hot, dry summer, Alberta wheat growers could look forward to higher prices to offset lower production. But now they can’t even count on that — at least not for the foreseeable future. “We have seen prices pulling back a little bit over the last few weeks,” FarmLink’s senior market analyst […] Read more


Wheat being harvested in northern France last month — an extremely hot, dry summer has analysts predicting production in Europe’s largest wheat-producing country could fall by three million tonnes this year.

This year’s back-up plan could work out nicely

Wheat acres in Alberta jumped this year but the move appears to be well timed

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the shine off pulses and disease issues constraining canola acres, wheat has become the go-to alternative for Alberta farmers this year. StatsCan estimates 6.27 million acres of spring wheat were planted in the province this year — 405,000 more acres than last year and the most since 2013. Add in durum and winter wheat, […] Read more

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Wheat futures climbing higher

CNS Canada – North American wheat prices have rallied sharply over the past few weeks and could have more room to go, especially for higher quality and higher protein wheat. After trending lower for most of June and into early July, the Minneapolis December spring wheat contract settled at US$6.2275 per bushel on July 31, […] Read more