The Western Producer has posted its daily grain price tables for Western Canadian delivery points. The newspaper, based in Saskatoon, has tracked Prairie crop bids since the 1920s. The report covers the principal crops grown across Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba.

The Western Producer began as a farmers' cooperative publication and has remained an industry voice for a century. Its daily price report is one of the few that aggregates bids from multiple buyers at each delivery point. Most grain companies publish their own bids. Few publish the competitor's. The newspaper's tables fill that gap.

A farmer opens the page each morning. The tables show what elevators will pay. Cash bids for spring wheat, durum, canola, barley, yellow peas, and lentils fill the columns. Each crop receives a line. Each delivery point receives a line.

A single daily number rarely decides a marketing plan. The cumulative drift of bids over weeks and months shapes marketing decisions, and the report remains a fixture in farm offices from Lethbridge to Winnipeg.

The tables aggregate bids from multiple buyers at each location. No single elevator publishes that comparison on its own. For a farmer holding unpriced inventory, the report supplies the cash side of the basis calculation. The futures side requires separate reference to Minneapolis spring wheat, Chicago corn and soybeans, or ICE canola contracts.

The Western Canadian grain belt produces the bulk of Canada's wheat, canola, and pulses. The daily report serves an industry where producer cars and major processors move millions of tonnes each year, and where the difference between selling in harvest and selling in winter can shape a farm's annual margin.

What the report includes, and what it leaves out

The tables show cash bids, not deferred delivery contract values. They do not include futures settlements, which vary by exchange and contract month. Readers comparing the report against their own contracts should note the delivery window. A spot bid in October rarely equals the price a producer locks in for January movement.

How farmers use the numbers

Producers subtract the cash bid from the relevant futures price to calculate basis. A weakening basis signals ample local supply or weak processor demand. A strengthening basis points to the opposite. For a grower deciding whether to deliver off the combine or store into winter, the basis trend matters more than the absolute cash number, because storage, interest, and quality losses all run against the price over time.

What does this change for a Prairie marketer?

The publication itself changes nothing in the cash market. Elevator bids move on local supply, end-user demand, and futures direction. The report makes those bids comparable across buyers and delivery points in a single view. That comparability, more than any single number, is what farmers pay attention to each morning.

The report also tracks basis trends across the three Prairie provinces, allowing readers to see whether local bids are strengthening or weakening against the futures benchmark in ways that signal rail backlogs, processor slowdowns, or the weight of a large harvest.

The Western Producer updates the report each business day, reflecting overnight movements in Minneapolis, Chicago, and ICE futures. Tomorrow's print will land before most Prairie elevators open for grower deliveries.