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 There's more market information out there than most of us even dreamed about. Much of it is available on the Internet through the World Wide Web. There is a fee for some information but a great deal is available at no cost. Of course, even Web information that’s free isn’t really free because a computer and Internet connection is needed.
Web site designers are getting better and better all the time. Good sites load quickly, are easy to use and easy to navigate through. Some, however, load slowly and are clumsy to find your way around because they are just plain poorly designed.
Here is a list of some of the many, many Internet Web-sites that provide market or weather information grouped in alphabetical order. There are obviously many, many more I could have listed but “surfing the Web” looking for interesting sites is not as exciting as you'd think. If a Web site has good information, I've listed it, even if it is slow to load or has design problems.
aginfonet Markets – http://www.aginfonet.com
-Click on the Markets tab near the top of the home page for a very large collection of market-related Web links.
Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library – http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/market/contents.htm
-An incredibly large and comprehensive guide to US and world wide market information sources available through the Internet from daily to yearly market and outlook reports, prices, commodities and quotes.
AgManager.info - http://www.agmanager.info/
-Kansas State University’s very comprehensive site devoted exclusively to farm business management. It includes a great deal of detailed information on the U.S. meat, livestock and crops markets including market prices, outlook and marketing strategies. It also includes policy analysis on issues like the U.S. Farm Bill and links to many USDA reports.
-The Crops, Livestock and Meat, Ag Econ News and Policy links on the home page all
offer very useful market-related articles and publications including analysis and
interpretation of recent USDA reports.
-The home page shows links to the most recent articles and publications.
Agri-ville.com - http://www.agri-ville.com/
-the Market News section on the home page includes futures quotes, futures price charts and market commentary.
-Click on Commodity Marketing under Meeting Rooms section to join the marketing discussion
group. There are often very interesting and informative discussions in the meeting rooms.
It is easy to register and join in.
Alberta Agriculture and Food - ROPIN' THE WEB - http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
Alberta Daily Cash Grain Prices - http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app21/grainprices
-Daily closing elevator cash bids for flax, wheat, oats, rye, feed peas and barley and crusher cash bids for canola updated in late afternoon each week day.
-Prices are quoted as averages or ranges for five areas of Alberta.
Alberta Weekly Feed Grain Prices - http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app21/fgrainprices
-Weekly cash feed wheat, oats, barley and feed pea price ranges for the many regions of the province
-Updated each Monday morning except Tuesdays following a Monday holiday.
Grass and Legume Seed Market Update –
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis9787
-a monthly update of grass and legume seed prices with less detail than the “Turf Grass, Forage and Legume seed Market Update” shown below.
Quick Market Update - http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/newslett.nsf/homemain/qmc
-published every two weeks on Mondays.
-gives a detailed analysis of what has happened in farm product markets.
-provides futures quotes for grains, cash bids for the major and special crops and forward contracts prices for canola.
-gives hog and cattle closing futures quotes, Canadian and U.S. slaughter prices and a hogs and cattle market background.
Quick Market Commentary - http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/newslett.nsf/homemain/qmc
-published every two weeks on Friday.
-gives a quick and easy to read update on the crop, cattle and hog markets.
-summary of Canadian and U.S. grains, oilseeds and livestock prices and markets.
Turf Grass, Forage and Legume Seed Market Update –
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/newslett.nsf/all/fsu9724
-detailed market update on the turf or lawn grasses, forage grasses and legume seeds markets.
-published four times a year.
Weekly Grain Price Review -
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sdd6248?opendocument
-A weekly summary of Canadian and U.S. grain futures prices, elevator feed grain bids, special crop bids, world and U.S. cash markets, Canadian and U.S. exports, and Canadian /U.S. canola-soybean crush updated each Friday afternoon.
Weekly Livestock Price Review -
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sdd6247?opendocument
-A weekly summary of Canadian and U.S. cattle and hog market information including futures prices, live and slaughter prices, slaughter numbers, and grades updated each Friday afternoon.
Weekly Special Crops Market Commentary – http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis5229
-A brief weekly summary of the field pea, lentil, chickpea, mustard and canary seed markets including recent prices and market news.
Alberta Daily Beef Market Report, Alberta Beef Producers – http://www.albertabeef.org/
-Daily slaughter and feeder cattle price report - http://www.albertabeef.org/canfaxfullreport.asp or click on Daily Cattle Report on the home page.
Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology, Rainfall Maps –
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/rainmaps.cgi?page=indexa&area=aus
-This site shows precipitation accumulations to date, well as percent of normal and comparisons to the last one, two and three years.
Bi-weekly Bulletin - Agriculture Canada, Market Analysis Division
– http://www.agr.gc.ca/mad-dam/index_e.php?page=intro
-Click on Bi-Weekly Bulletin for market information and in-depth market analysis on specific issues about the Canadian and international markets for grain, oilseeds and special crops.
-Click on Canada: Grains and Oilseeds Outlook or Canada: Special Crops Outlook on left hand side for price outlook as well as supply and disposition forecasts for Canadian grains, oilseeds and special crops.
-Historical outlook documents and historical grain and oilseed production information is also available on this site. Unfortunately historical information, including seeded area and yields for all crops is in metric units.
-Users can subscribe to have reports e-mailed by clicking on Subscription on the left side.
Canadian Grain Commission – http://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/main-e.htm
-General grain market-related information including a list of licensed grain companies; rights, responsibilities and opportunities for western grain producers; grain grading guide; the Canada Grain Act; elevator tariffs; and more.
-There are a significant number of no-cost market-related reports under the Publications link.
Canadian Wheat Board – http://www.cwb.ca/
-This site was redesigned in November, 2006 to be faster for dial-up Internet users. Unfortunately old CWB web site bookmarks no long work.
-Pool Return Outlooks, contract calls (delivery updates), transportation updates, fixed price and basis contract quotes, early payment option quotes, Canadian weather forecast updates, links to other useful sites and much more. You can request email updates by clicking “E-mail updates” in the grey along the top of the home page.
CanFax – Home Page - http://www.canfax.ca/
-Click on Daily Market Report on the left side of the screen for the Daily Market Report from Alberta Beef Producers site.
-Click on Cattle-on-Feed for Alberta-Saskatchewan cattle-on-feed reports.
-Click on Boxed Beef Report for weekly report summarizing average cut-out values and cut prices for Canadian A-grade beef.
-CanFax Weekly Reports and other historical market information in the Members Only section, which requires a password. A password is available by clicking on Get Password at the bottom of the Members Only main page.
Cattle-Fax – http://www.cattle-fax.com/
-Links to many, many USDA and other cattle market reports under the USDA News Reports and USDA Livestock Data on the left side of the home page.
Cattlemen Magazine “Beef Watch”
-Detailed analysis of the Canadian and US beef cattle cycles written by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and Canfax, published in May and November.
-Go to http://www.agcanada.com, click on Canadian Cattleman and then Beef Watch. At the end of August, 2005, Beef Watch had not been updated on the website for some time. It will be updated again following a redesign of the web page that allows graphs and charts to be displayed.
Chicago Board of Trade – http://www.cbot.com/
-Agricultural futures prices and charts – from the home page, click on a commodity on the right side of the home page, and it will take you to the commodity’s 10-delayed futures quotes and charts.
-Midsession and closing US grain and oilseed market commentaries – slide your mouse pointer over the Market Data link and click on Commentaries from the drop down box.
-Ag Fundamental Reports show recent and historic crop production and supply and consumption for U.S. wheat, corn and soybeans at http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,204,00.html .
Chicago Mercantile Exchange - http://www.cme.com
-Delayed futures and options price quotes for live cattle, feeder cattle and lean hogs - http://www.cme.com/trading/dta/del/product_list.html?ProductType=com
-Delayed futures and options quotes for Canadian Dollar exchange rate - http://www.cme.com/trading/dta/del/product_list.html?ProductType=cur&crl=f
-Daily, weekly and monthly futures charts (no-cost password required for access) - http://chartsrdc.cme.com:443/cs/eqindex.html
Environment Canada Weather Forecasts – http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html
-Detailed current weather information and current and extended five-day forecasts
-Alberta weather forecasts - http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/canada/index_e.html?id=AB
FARMCENTRE.COM – http://www.farmcentre.com
- This is the web site for the Canadian Farm Business Management Council.
- Click on Today’s Markets on the left side of the screen, then Multiple Commodities to be directed to a large number of links for market information for various commodities.
Farmdoc - University of Illinois Outlook – http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/
-Click on Marketing and Outlook on the left side of the screen for easy access to all US outlook reports, USDA Reports, historic price charts, good explanations of how US Farm Bill policy works and much more.
FutureSource.com - http://www.futuresource.com/
-FutureSource.com is a very comprehensive futures-related site that gives delayed futures and options quotes and charts, news stories and educational material related to futures trading.
-It is helpful for site users need to know the trading symbols for various futures contracts to access the information much quicker. For example, the symbol “RS” represents WCE canola futures. Trading symbols are available on the site.
-A very good charting service is available by clicking on the Charts tab at the top of the home page or at http://www.futuresource.com/charts/charts.jsp .
Internet Hay Exchange - http://www.hayexchange.com
-Hay for sale and hay wanted, with asking or offering prices, from all over North America and some international locations. Hay is listed by province and state.
Iowa Farm Outlook Newsletter - http://www.econ.iastate.edu/outreach/agriculture/periodicals/ifo/
-Twice monthly livestock and crops market analysis and outlook newsletters emphasizing the US and world situations. These are all in Adobe (pdf) format but there is a link for a free Adobe Reader download.
Kansas City Board of Trade - http://www.kcbt.com/charts.html
-Hard red winter wheat futures and options quotes on a 10-minute deal, as well as market commentary and analysis and futures charts.
Livestock Auction Sale Reports - Alberta
-Balog Auction Service, Lethbridge - http://www.balogauction.com/market-reports.htm
-Beaver Hill Auction Services, Ltd., Tofield – http://www.bidbuytrade.com
-click on Market Reports.
-Burnt Lake Livestock Mart, Ltd, Red Deer - http://www.burntlakelivestock.com/
-click on Market Report under the drop-down menu.
-Calgary Stockyards, Strathmore - http://www.calgarystockyards.com/?q=node/15
-Canadian Satellite Livestock Auction, Red Deer - http://www.cslauction.com/recap.html
-Direct Livestock Marketing Systems - http://www.dlms.ca/Market%20Report.htm
-Fort Macleod Auction, Ltd., Fort Macleod - http://www.livestock.ab.ca/Market%20Reports.html
-Grande Prairie Livestock Market, Grande Prairie - http://www.gplmcattle.com/market.htm
-Highwood Livestock Auction, Ltd., High River - http://www.livestock.ab.ca/Market%20Reports.html
-Innisfail Auction Market, Ltd., Innisfail - http://www.innisfailauctionmarket.com/market.asp
-Medicine Hat Feeding Company, Medicine Hat - http://www.mhfc.ca/nav/market.htm
-Market Master Live Internet Auction –
http://www.onlinemarketmasterauction.com/nbi/MarketReport.aspx
-Nilsson Bros. Inc. - Clyde - http://www.nbinc.com/clyde/index.asp?id=59
-Vermilion - http://www.nbinc.com/vermilion/ then click on Market Report at top
- Market Master Live Internet Auction –
http://www.onlinemarketmasterauction.com/nbi/MarketReport.aspx
-Olds Auction Mart, Ltd. - http://www.oldsauction.com/Market_Report
-Perlich Bros. Auction Market, Ltd., Lethbridge - http://www.perlich.com/market.cfm
-Provost Livestock Exchange, Provost - http://www.plecattle.com/index.asp?id=72
-Rimbey Auction Mart, Rimbey –
http://www.northernhorse.com/auctions/rimbey/calendar/MarketReports.asp
-Schetzsle Marketing Corp, Veteran - http://www.smccattle.com/market.htm
-Sekura Auctions, Drayton Valley - http://www.sekuraauctions.com/sekura_auctions_market_report.htm
-Stettler Auction Mart, Ltd., Stettler - http://www.stettlerauction.ab.ca/Cattle/CattleSoldN.asp
-The Electronic Auction Market (TEAM) –
http://www.teamauctionsales.com/assets/market_report.jsp?tmsid=1054066824057
-Triple J Livestock, Ltd., Westlock - http://www.triplejlivestock.com/markets.asp
-Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co., Ponoka -
http://www.vjvauction.com/vjvold/vjvponoka/pages/market_report.htm
-VJV Foothills Livestock Auction, Stavely –
http://www.vjvauction.com/vjvold/vjv_foothills/pages/foothills_market_report.htm
Livestock Auction Sale Reports – B.C.
-B.C. Livestock Producers Co-op, Kamloops, Okagagan Falls, Williams Lake –
http://www.bclivestock.bc.ca/market.php
-Frazer Valley Auction (1983) Ltd., Langley - http://www.fraservalleyauction.com/marketreport.htm
-McClary Stockyards, Ltd., Abbotsford, BC - http://www.mcclarystockyards.com/msframe.html
-Valley Auction, Ltd., Abbotsford, BC - http://www.valleyauction.ca/marketreport.htm
Livestock Auction Sale Reports – Saskatchewan
-Assiniboia Livestock Auction, Assiniboia - http://www.assiniboiaauction.com/, click on Market Report
-Cowtown livestock Exchange, Maple Creek –
http://www.cowtownlivestock.homestead.com/Livestock_Market_Report.html
-Heartland Livestock Services, Saskatchewan, nine locations - http://www.hls.ca/marketreport.htm
-Johnstone Auction Mart, Ltd., Moose Jaw – click on Auction Results on left side of home page
-Mankota Stockmen’s Weigh Co. Ltd., Mankota - http://www.mankotastockmens.com ,
click on Market Report
-Peterson’s Auction Market Co. Ltd., Kelvington - http://www.petersonsauctionmarket.com/prices.htm
-Saskatoon Auction Mart Ltd., Saskatoon - http://www.saskatoonauctionmart.com , click on Market Report
-Spiritwood Stockyards (1984) Ltd., Spiritwood - http://www.spiritwoodstockyards.ca/report.html
Livestock Marketing Information Center - http://www.lmic.info
-US cattle and hog market information and analysis including detailed charts explaining reports like Cattle-on-Feed and Hog-and-Pigs reports. It includes many links to other market information sites.
Minneapolis Grain Exchange - http://www.mgex.com/
-Minneapolis futures and options quotes and charts for hard red spring wheat at http://www.mgex.com/quotes_charts.html or click on Market Information on the home page.
P.F.R.A. Drought Watch - http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/drought/index_e.htm
-lots of good information and precipitation maps showing moisture conditions across western Canada.
Red Meat Market Information Website – Agriculture and Agrifood Canada
- http://www.agr.gc.ca/misb/aisd/redmeat/main.htm
-Detailed information about the red meat – beef, pork and sheep – markets including live animal imports and exports and product exports. Click on the Market Information tab on the left side.
Roberts Weekly Agricultural Commodity Market Report, Virginia Tech -http://www.ext.vt.edu/news/periodicals/roberts/
-Weekly (every Tuesday) update of US wheat, corn, soybean, cattle and hog markets.
Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food - http://www.agr.gov.sk.ca
-detailed price information for most farm products but especially useful special crop prices –
http://www.agr.gov.sk.ca/apps/markettrends/default.asp?
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers – http://www.saskpulse.com
-Click on Buying and Selling on the top tool bar for a great deal of information on how to market pulses. It also includes a list of companies that buy pulses and pulse brokers.
Snippets - Smith Seed Services, Halsey, Oregan - http://www.smithseed.com/index2.htm
-“Snippets” is a single-page, monthly grass seed report published by Smith Seed Services of Halsey, Oregan. “Snippets” is at http://www.smithseed.com/library/library.htm .
STAT Publishing's Commodity News - http://www.statpub.com/index.html
-Market news and analysis for many agricultural commodities but especially for field peas, lentils, dry edible beans, chickpeas, mustard seed, birdseed ingredients and other specialty seeds.
-Many, many interesting marketing and weather related links.
-Some of the information requires a subscription fee for access.
TFC Commodity Charts - http://www.futures.tradingcharts.com
-Futures quotes and very comprehensive daily, weekly and monthly futures price charts for all the major agricultural commodity futures as well as currency exchange rates, energy sources, metals and financials - http://www.futures.tradingcharts.com/menu.html
-Click on the Weather button on the right side of the home page for very good North American and world weather maps.
The Ag Center - http://www.agcenter.com
-Daily US fed and feeder cattle market report - http://www.agcenter.com/cattlereport.asp or click on Cattle under the What’s Happening section on the left side of the home page
The Weather Network - http://www.theweathernetwork.com
-Weather maps and forecasts Canada, the US and the world. Forecasts provide temperature highs and lows, wind and probability of precipitation for the day and four days forward.
USDA Reports - http://www.usda.gov/
-USDA Supply and Demand Estimates, Outlook and other reports are posted as soon as they are released.
-USDA all-Agency Reports and Schedule – current year reports and dates of future reports, including cattle-on-feed, seeding intentions, seeded acres, US and world production and trade, market outlook and much more by all USDA agencies - on the USDA home page, click on Find commodity market reports on the right side of the home page.
-Historical information and many nifty charts - http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp - then click on Find Charts or Maps.
-USDA Agricultural Marketing Service cash market information on nearly any farm product imaginable - http://www.ams.usda.gov/marketnews.htm
-USDA Ag Market News Livestock, Grain & Oilseed Reports – cash prices from all over the US -
http://www.ams.usda.gov/LSMNpubs/index.htm
-Pulse Crops Market Prices and Commentary - http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/GL_GR851.txt
-ERS Briefing Room – tremendous amount of background information on a wide range of US and world market and policy issues - http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/
U.S. Drought Monitor - http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/index.html
-The Drought Monitor is an excellent way to watch changes in drought or moisture conditions across the entire U.S. The Monitor is updated weekly.
U.S. National Weather Service, World Climate Maps -
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/index.html
These maps show moisture conditions around the world over the previous week, month and three-month periods. Precipitation is shown as both measured accumulations and percent of normal.
Western Hog Exchange – http://www.westernhogexchange.com/
-click on WHE Prices for twice-daily forward contract and spot cash hog prices.
-click on Marketing, then Grading Grids for details on current grading grids.
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange - http://www.wce.ca
-10-minuted delayed futures quotes –
http://www.wce.ca/ContractsMarketInfo.aspx?first=delayedquotes&second=allmonths
-charts of all WCE commodities – http://www.wce.ca/ContractsMarketInfo/charts.htm
OTHER INTERESTING SITES
“Managing Market Risk” , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
-“Managing Market Risk” publication –
http://www.agr.gc.ca/pol/index_e.php?s1=pub&s2=cours&page=rmc_pdf
-Managing Market Risk Course - http://www.agr.gc.ca/pol/index_e.php?s1=pub&s2=cours&page=toc
Western Extension Marketing Committee – http://www.ag.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/wemc.html
-Very interesting “how-to” articles on how to improve farm marketing from a US perspective, much of which applies here in western Canada. Extension economists from the 13 western states provide the information.
-It includes successful examples of successful direct farm marketing and agri-tourism enterprises.
Please send me any other interesting or useful marketing web sites you find. Send the web site addresses (URL) to me at my e-mail address: <lee.melvill@gov.ab.ca>
WHAT'S IT MEAN?
URL - the Web "address" of a particular web site or page. For example the URL of the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange is http://www.wce.ca. Each Web page has its own unique URL.
Cut-out - the total value, at the packer/wholesale level, of all the various cuts and products that make up a carcass of youthful beef. The cut-out is calculated by multiplying the packer/wholesale value or price of each individual cut of beef by its typical yield from a typical A-grade carcass. The combination of the price of each cut and their yields together is the beef cut-out. The yields are based on typical or standardized Canadian and US cutting specifications. Source: www.canfax.ca “Canadian Boxed Beef Report”.
Copyright: Alberta Agriculture and Food, December, 2007
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