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Maple Leaf profit beats as margins improve

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 1, 2016

Reuters — Canadian pork processor Maple Leaf Foods posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as margins in its prepared meats business improved. Adjusted operating profit in the meat products group, which includes brands such as Schneiders and the company’s namesake Maple Leaf brand, was $54.6 million, compared with a year-ago loss of $19.1 million. The Mississauga-based

Livestock, Markets

Canada, EU finally settle trade deal after opposition

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Philip Blenkinsop February 29, 2016

Ottawa/Brussels | Reuters — The European Union has convinced Canada to include a new way of settling investor claims in their trade deal, making it more likely that it will be passed and putting the U.S. under pressure to accept the same terms. The two sides wrapped up negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade

Crops, Weather

Spring road bans to slow grain movement across Prairies

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2016

CNS Canada –– Spring road bans are starting to be put into place across Western Canada as temperatures warm up in the Prairie provinces. The annual restrictions set axle weight limits for vehicles moving on certain roads in an effort to reduce the damage heavier loads can cause during the spring thaw period. Grain and

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel February 25, 2016

Reuters — Quebec-based La Coop Federee, one of Canada’s biggest farmer co-operatives, is offering for sale up to 49 per cent of pork processor Olymel, to help fund expansion in Western Canada, CEO Gaetan Desroches said in an interview. La Co-op would retain control of Olymel, which along with Maple Leaf Foods is one of

Crops

Transport review urges scrapping railway grain revenue cap

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel February 25, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Ottawa should phase out over seven years its cap on the amount of revenue railways can earn transporting grain, a study for the Canadian government recommended Thursday, a move long urged by railways and opposed by farmers and grain handlers. A review of Canadian transportation laws, aimed at modernizing the system,

Cereals, Crops

Cargill joint venture to build grain terminal in Ukraine

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 24, 2016

Kiev | Reuters — U.S. agriculture giant Cargill and Ukraine’s MV Cargo said they would build and operate a grain terminal at Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhny under a US$100 million joint venture agreement signed Wednesday. The terminal, near Ukraine’s biggest port city of Odessa, will have an annual loading capacity of five million

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Pork market looks to improve by spring

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News February 23, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian pork prices are feeling a modest bump upward as healthy U.S. exports clean up some excess North American pork supplies. Canadian slaughter-weight prices hit their lows in November and December — and since then, they have increased about 30 per cent, according to Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist for Saskatchewan’s agriculture

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Buyers risk-averse on feeder cattle

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen February 23, 2016

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were trading $5-$10 below values seven days earlier. Sharper declines were noted on heavier replacements over 800 lbs., which at times sold for $15 below week-ago levels; quality mid-weight feeders in the range of 600 to 800 lbs. were down $8 on average. Eastern Prairie markets held value on feeders

Concrete is poured in May for a grain terminal now owned by G3 Grain. Farmer deliveries in September reached their highest level in records since 2001. (CWB.ca)

Crops, Markets

Prairie farmers seek answers to the $6.5 billion question

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin February 22, 2016

CNS Canada –– The Canadian Wheat Board single desk has now been gone for 3 1/2 years, but there are still some in the Prairie farming community who would like to see it brought back. Whether that’s actually possible is a question for another time — but the data being used to make the case

Crops, Local news

Swan River meeting calls for return of CWB

About 50 farmers supported the resolution

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 22, 2016

A group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers wants the Canadian Wheat Board and its single-desk marketing system reinstated. Organizers of a meeting Feb. 10 in Swan River say 50 farmers attended and unanimously passed a resolution calling for a return to orderly marketing and co-ordinated grain transportation logistics. The resolution says loss of the board

Daily Network News

Pay more attention to South American corn

Board appointments hint Richardson Int. may rejoin canola council

Pulse weekly: Canadian pea exports up in January, lentils lag

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