Tuesday, October 13, 2026, marked the latest daily grain settlement reported by 620 CKRM, the Regina broadcaster that tracks Saskatchewan commodity prices through each trading session.

What did the CKRM close contain?

The station published a closing-grain wrap for the Tuesday session, the standard end-of-day tally that Western Canadian farmers, elevators and merchandisers use to set cash bids, basis adjustments and overnight delivery plans. The report's headline appeared in the CKRM news feed without accompanying settlement figures, so specific values for wheat, canola, oats, barley, flax, peas or lentils are not verifiable from the source provided.

The absence of the underlying price table is a meaningful gap. Daily closes drive the per-bushel and per-tonne numbers a producer carries into the next morning's phone calls with elevators and crushers. Without those figures, farmers reading only the headline cannot reconcile their Tuesday sales against the board.

Why does a Tuesday close matter more than a Monday close?

Midweek closes land after the first two sessions of the week, so they tend to carry more weight than Monday prints. Analysts at grain companies typically use Tuesday-through-Thursday settlements as the working benchmark for the week, partly because Monday volumes thin out after the weekend and partly because fresh export and crush demand data tend to surface midweek.

A Tuesday settlement also sets the tone for basis negotiations. Western Canadian buyers — including Richardson International, Viterra, Cargill and Paterson Grain — issue updated cash bids Wednesday morning that usually reference the prior session's close. Producers checking the CKRM number Tuesday evening have a roughly 12-hour window before those bids reset.

What should growers do with a thin data print?

Treat any closing report without a full table as a signal to verify. Cross-check the headline number against ICE Futures canola, Minneapolis or Kansas wheat futures, and the ICE canola contract, then confirm against your buyer's posted bid. Daily close reports from single regional outlets can lag by minutes when exchange volumes spike, so two-source verification is the conservative move.

Producers marketing old-crop canola or spring wheat into the Regina or Moose Jaw delivery zone should also pull the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission and SaskCanola pooled return evidence for the same week before locking in a basis contract.

What to watch next

The Wednesday, October 14 close will resolve whether Tuesday's session marked a turning point or simply continued the prior week's pattern. Watch for ICE canola and the Minneapolis spring wheat December contract for direction, and expect CKRM to post the next daily wrap by late afternoon.