crop production

The much anticipated US Department of Agriculture World Agricultural Supply and Demand estimates took on a bullish tone, especially for corn. In Friday’s WASDE report, the US Department of Agriculture slashed corn yield estimates by 3.8 bushels to 179.3 bushels per acre. The average pre-report trade estimate was 182.7 bushels an acre, indicating global supplies […]

Statistics Canada released model-based projections of production of various crops for each province on Wednesday morning. In Saskatchewan, they expect more canola, durum, lentils, oats, dry peas, and flaxseed to be produced, but less spring wheat, barley, and mustard seed. Production for canola is anticipated to be 10.6 million tonnes this year; spring wheat 11 […]

Statistics Canada boosted 2023 canola and wheat production estimates as crops finished better than expected in part of the Prairies. Crop estimates usually tend to increase in the annual December report, but the numbers for wheat surpassed industry expectations. Timely late summer rains helped revive some crops. StatsCan estimated all-wheat production at 32 million metric […]

Grain markets are showing upward movement following Tuesday’s StatsCan report reflecting lower crop production due to drought. StatsCan estimates the wheat crop at 21.7 million metric tons, down 38 percent and Canola will be the smallest crop since 2010. Canola production is estimated at 12.8 million tons, down 34 percent from last year. P.I. Financial […]

  Stats Can is estimating a sharply reduced crop this fall due to widespread drought. Nationally, wheat production is forecast to drop 35 percent to 22.9 million tons while canola will decline 24 percent to 14.7 million tons. In Saskatchewan, all crops except Mustard are down 20 to 40 percent, Mustard is up 3 percent […]

The chair of SaskWheat says 2020 was an interesting and challenging year. Brett Halstead farms at Nokomis and says grain movement has been going well, partly because of less movement of other freight during the pandemic. He adds grain prices are on the rise. “They definitely have come up since late summer and through harvest,” […]

Agriculture minister David Marit has mixed emotions around the year 2020. Marit says COVID-19 posed some serious challenges but crop production was the second best ever. “We’re over 39 million metric tonnes, the second-highest in history,” said Marit. “The bright spot of it is obviously the quality, it’s very high quality, and the prices have […]