by Breanne Baker | Feb 22, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The price of yellow peas has risen steadily since harvest. The Alberta Pulse Growers publish a bi-weekly newsletter called The Pulse Market Insight. The most recent edition is by Chuck Penner of LeftField Commodity Research. Penner acknowledges that pea prices were...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 16, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
A southern Alberta company called DynAgra has launched a farm risk management and crop marketing service called Know-Risk Farm Management. Remi Schmaltz of DynAgra has some interesting observations on the hesitancy of producers to forward sell the 2011 crop. Many,...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 8, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates
From Western Producer: A farm agronomy advisory company is expanding to include a web-based service that will help farmers market their crops. Know-Risk Farm Management is designed to take some of the emotion out of marketing. The service allows users to closely track...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 4, 2011 | Articles, Crop Marketing, Farm Management
From RealAgriculture.com With the volatility that is in the marketplace it is very critical to try have a handle on your risk management strategy. There are many ways to do this in terms of people and products. Traditionally farmers had to communicate through brokers...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 28, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The Pool Return Outlooks for wheat and durum have seen another significant increase. After deducting average Saskatchewan freight and handling, No. 1 CWRS wheat with 12.5 per cent protein is now expected to have a price of $6.94 a bushel. This surpasses the $6.56 a...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 26, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The price of Canadian durum looks particularly bad right now as compared to what American farmers are being paid. Elevators in Montana and North Dakota are posting cash bids as high as $10 a bushel for top grade durum. Here in Saskatchewan, the expected price for high...