The Cargill Knowledge Tent is a busy place at Ag in Motion.

Bruce Burnett the Director of Marketing and Weather for Glacier Farm Media is one of the presenters.

He talked to producers about Global Growing Conditions including the situation and yield expectations right here at home.

He expects an average wheat crop and likely a 7 to 8% reduction in the canola crop here due to the unevenness and poor crop stands we’re seeing.

“It could be a lot lower if we get weather conditions that aren’t positive; now, these rains are good. The canola it’s gotten it growing, and the crops are developing, but we’re just going to have some issues here with the end of the season I feel because of the lateness of the crop.”

Burnett says as well as what’s happening here he’s also watching what’s happening globally in key growing areas.

“The biggest one certainly is the U-S Corn belt and the corn crop. We’ve seen an impact of that already in prices; the corn prices have gone up significantly from prior to these issues. It’s much the same problem that we had except they had too much moisture. So, the crops didn’t get in on time and so we’ve seen this delayed planting which does reduce yield.”

On the wheat side globally there’s been some dry pockets which will impact yields in the Black Sea in areas like Russia, Kazakhstan, and Europe, as well as into Australia.

He says with the oilseed sector in general ( soybeans and canola ) there’s just a lot of stocks globally right now.

“With the reduced demand from China, because of African Swine Fever and that’s going to be a fundamental problem there. Then you toss in the trade issues and that gives us some concerns on just how big those stocks are.”

He notes the (canola) exports have been reasonably good to other countries, they have started to pick up.