QGM Organics May 22: Busy Season, Good Demand; One Odd Product

Markets are more robust than they've been in months with prices sitting steady. Demand is strong for organic products and prices are solid with a fair bit more competition as buyers look to tear farmer's attention away from their outdoor work. 

However (and there's always a however): 

Quality is king. If the product is low FN or super high dock of any kind, you'll be expecting feed or at least sharply reduced prices, which are about 20-25% less than high grade grain. Sometimes a lower spec batch will blend out but often as not you'll be looking at lower prices, or a good price for a spot load. 

And another however: There's still a lot of product locked away. Waiting out for a crazy high bid could bring you through to next harvest, and the advantage flies off. It seems the drought is done. It seems the crop should be good. El Nina is done and El Nina drives the droughts. Barring some sort of random disaster, prices should stay right about where they are. 

You be the judge. 

If anybody is interested, I have a seller with 13 mt of wild mustard seed. Brassica Nigra. Very niche-y stuff. 

I have been approached by buyers for:

-- organic brown flax at $48 del'd
-- conventional golden flax please contact
-- organic new crop peas, yellow and green
-- conventional no glypho yellows, $11~
-- organic new crop hrsw 
-- old crop wheat of all types sitting in the $21 CAD/$15 USD range
-- LENTILS -- all of them. Organic, conventional, black, green, red; little, big, whatever. New crop old crop etc. 

Let me know what you've got. Have a good day. Don't get stuck in the mud. 

Cheers,

Andrew
Quality Grain Marketing
c/Text: 587-287-8447
Three Hills, AB