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Pulse Outlook Goes Against The Grain

By Alana Vannahme March 5, 2009

The bull market may be over for some crops in Canada but the longer-term outlook for pulse crops remains strong, according to Marlene Boersch, a partner in Mercantile Consulting Venture in Winnipeg. Boersch was speaking at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg on Feb. 23. Relative to other major Canadian crops, the[...]

Cereals, News

New-Crop Malting Barley Prices Fail To Excite

By Alana Vannahme February 12, 2009

Farmers in Western Canada are less than enthusiastic about early new crop malting barley prices. Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. in Alix, Alberta had been offering between $4.25 to $4.50 (farm gate) for 2009-10 malting barley but those prices were met with minimal interest from farmers, said Kevin Sich, the barley manager for the Minnesota-based malt[...]

Cereals, News

Canada a growing market for U. S. distillers grains

By Alana Vannahme November 13, 2008

Since the boom in the U. S. biofuel industry, U. S. supplies of dried distiller grains, ethanol’s co-product, have grown significantly and U. S. exporters have been looking North to a large and growing market for their feed alternative. At the recent United States Grain Council’s, or USGC, International Distillers Grains Conference & Trade Show[...]

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WTO Deal And Supply Management Can Coexist: Trade Expert

By Alana Vannahme April 2, 2009

An agriculture trade deal at the World Trade Organization’s Doha round would not have to spell the end of Canada’s supply management system, according to a former senior trade official. Contrary to what is often said, the decades-old system that protects Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry industries through tariffs, supply quotas and price controls does[...]

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Flooded Farmers Can Still Get Crops In On Time

By Alana Vannahme May 21, 2009

Some Manitoba producers in flood-affected areas are still a few weeks away from seeding but specialists say there is no reason for panic assuming weather co-operates through May. As of May 5, the amount of flooded Manitoba farmland had retreated from its April 24 peak of 86,400 hectares to 64,600 hectares, a Statistics Canada report[...]

Cereals, News

Spring fertilizer crunch coming?

By Alana Vannahme January 8, 2009

Reduced demand for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet on the other side of the coin, there is the concern about whether or not the supply will be there in the[...]

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B. C. Port Workers Ratify New Agreement

By Alana Vannahme March 12, 2009

Representatives from both the union for about 450 British Columbia dock and ship workers and their employers confirmed Friday that union members have ratified a new collective agreement after months of mediated negotiations. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union of Canada (ILWU) Local 514 took a ratification vote Feb. 24 but the results of the[...]

Crops

Fertilizer sales picking up in Western Canada

By Alana Vannahme February 12, 2009

After low interest through November and December, farmers in Western Canada are starting to book fertilizer for the spring, according to Viterra Inc. officials participating in the company’s recent conference call. A late harvest in Western Canada, combined with poor weather conditions and farmer uncertainty associated with declining fertilizer and crop prices, led to very[...]

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Doha not dead yet

By Alana Vannahme November 6, 2008

Resource News International Left for dead back in the summer, the World Trade Organization’s struggling Doha round is slowly being prodded back to life through a series of informal consultations in Geneva. Canadian agriculture groups welcomed the news. Ambassador Crawford Falconer, chair of the WTO’s agricultural committee, has been meeting informally with countries since early[...]

Hogs, News

Plans to open Saskatchewan slaughter plant in 2009 still in place

By Alana Vannahme November 27, 2008

“COOL just makes our plant that much more attractive.” – Jim Ramsay The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one-million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall. “We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open[...]

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Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

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U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

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Pulse Outlook Goes Against The Grain

New-Crop Malting Barley Prices Fail To Excite

Canada a growing market for U. S. distillers grains

WTO Deal And Supply Management Can Coexist: Trade Expert

Flooded Farmers Can Still Get Crops In On Time

Spring fertilizer crunch coming?

B. C. Port Workers Ratify New Agreement

Fertilizer sales picking up in Western Canada

Doha not dead yet

Plans to open Saskatchewan slaughter plant in 2009 still in place

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