Danielle is from Warburg Alberta, where she grew up on her family’s farm, graduated high school, and never really left; recently moving her family into their forever home not far from the family farm. Danielle has always been involved in agriculture. Helping her parents raise cattle & plant/harvest crops, participating in 4-H, and riding horses kept her busy in her younger years. She still pitches in whenever she can with her family’s farming operation, and their small herd of cattle. Her and her husband Brodie have two toddlers, Oaklen, and Wren, and are working hard at developing their new acreage, so there is never a lack of things to do! When she does have spare time, Danielle is either riding her horses, hanging out with her family, or reading a good book.
Danielle has a Business Diploma from NAIT, and the last 10 years worked as a “product coordinator” in the bulk chemical industry. When the chance to work in the agriculture industry arrived in the form of a position at Agfinity, Danielle thought it was a good time for a change! Being passionate about all things agriculture, she is excited about this new role. Danielle is used to scheduling and logistics planning, with lots of customer service experience, but her favorite part of any role is making connections with people.
Because Farming is Forever
Danielle Barnes
Market Report – Erin Harakal
As we enter the last half of November and approach December space is becoming very limited, with buyers looking for grain for December on at this point. Freight has also been booking up quickly and with the cost of fuel and everything else rising this has caused freight rates to rise. This has also lowered the picked up on farm prices for grain.
Right now, for feed barely delivered Lethbridge we are currently seeing $430-440/mt for December-January movement. Barely price continues to soften as corn has started to enter Lethbridge putting a cap on feed barely pricing at this time.
The feed oat market has been equivalent to the #2 milling oat prices. We are currently seeing more demand for oats for feed over milling. As the price of barley increased and with the low demand for milling oats this made oats more desirable for feed lots. Feed oats pricing for December movement in Central Alberta has ranged anywhere from $4.20-4.60/bu picked up in the yard.
Western Canadian wheat bids have recovered a bit after reports that a Russian missile strikes Poland. This action has created concerns about disruption to global supplies and has raised questions about the outlook of the agreement with Ukraine and the Black Sea ports. #1 HRS wheat at 13.5% pro in central Alberta has been around $12.00-12.40/bu delivered for November-December movement.
With everything happening in Russia and Ukraine there is a lot of uncertainty with what will happen going forward and no one is sure how the markets will react going forward on graded grains. Right now, the export markets seem to be in a wait and see place.
Sellers Tip: If you are needing movement before the end of December or the first half of January now is the time to book it in before these timeframes fill up.