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Canada’s new agriculture minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, sworn in March 1, made her first formal address March 7 to the inaugural Canadian Crops Convention in Montreal where she stressed her priorities include ensuring market access for Canadian agricultural exports. Bibeau told reporters she was surprised there hasn’t been a female agriculture minister until now given the role women play in family farms. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

Market access, trade priorities for Canada’s new ag minister

Marie-Claude Bibeau acknowledges challenges in first speech

By Allan Dawson March 15, 2019

Ensuring market access, including getting Canadian canola into China, and promoting trade, are top priorities for Canada’s new agriculture minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau. “I already understand we have ongoing market access issues that I have to get into really quickly… ” Bibeau, sworn in March 1, told reporters after her first public address as agriculture minister

Crops, Markets

Fund short position climbs in canola

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 15, 2019

MarketsFarm — Fund traders were active in the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Tuesday, adding to their large net short position, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the latest report, managed money and other reportable speculators increased their net

News, Oilseeds

Canada rallies to restore Richardson canola exports to China

The Chinese say the ban is due to pests, but Canadians blame Huawei spat

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2019

China says it banned imported Canadian canola from Richardson International because of pests, but Canadians suspect it’s politics. China condemns Canada’s decision last fall to detain one of its citizens, Huawei vice-president Meng Wanzhou, at the request of U.S. government on alleged fraud charges and demands she be released. “Well, that’s obviously one of the issues

News, Oilseeds

Provincial ministers discussing China’s ban on imports of Richardson’s canola

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2019

The Manitoba government issued a statement supporting the province’s canola industry in the wake of China’s ban of the crop shipped through Richardson International whose headquarters are in Winnipeg. “Canola is a key driver of the agriculture industry in this province and in this country, and is Manitoba’s second-largest export product to China,” Growth, Enterprise

Canola has lost roughly $30 per tonne on the markets over the past month.

Grain Markets, Markets

Rumours become reality as China curbs canola demand

Traders also have a wary eye on U.S. Midwest weather

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 14, 2019

Canola futures fell hard during the week ended March 8, hitting their lowest levels in more than two years as concerns over Chinese demand came to the forefront. Over the past few months, rumblings that Chinese demand was waning and Canadian exporters were facing extra hurdles moving canola to the country had been growing louder.

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Politics as usual

By Gord Gilmour March 13, 2019

It’s tempting to ask the Chinese government to pull the other leg now. As anyone who grows canola is likely aware by now, Canada’s largest single customer for canola, accounting for 40 per cent of this country’s exports, threw a monkey wrench into Prairie export canola. Officials quietly banned imports from Richardson International, Canada’s largest

ICE May 2019 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Trade among issues hurting market

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 13, 2019

MarketsFarm — ICE canola futures are in trouble for a number of reasons, according to Exceed Grain senior marketing analyst Wayne Palmer. “We’re in a lot of trouble unless Trump signs this deal with China,” he said. Reports have stated the U.S. and China will sign a trade agreement at the end of March. U.S.

Valero Energy’s ethanol plant at Aurora, S.D., about 90 km north of Sioux Falls. (Valero.com)

Crops

Trump’s EPA unveils plan to pump up ethanol as Big Oil cries foul

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, Jarrett Renshaw March 13, 2019

Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released its proposed rule lifting a summer ban on higher-ethanol blends of gasoline to help farmers, putting the agency on a collision course with Big Oil which has called the move illegal. The proposal to broaden sales of the so-called E15 rule marks the latest flashpoint

Manitoba growers haven’t yet voted with their acres when it comes to accepting corn as a major crop in the province,  despite some modest growth.

Cereals, Crops

Corn’s future should be bright in Manitoba

The results of five years of corn agronomy research show it to be among the most profitable crops but farmers aren’t yet adopting it widely

By Don Norman March 11, 2019

Corn has seen some moderate acreage gains recently as a crop for farmers in Manitoba, and for good reason. The yield per acre seeded has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. But that growth in acres hasn’t been exponential as well. It’s been more in the realm of the slow and steady. For example,

Crops

Alberta input retail chain expands westward reach

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff March 10, 2019

A pair of independent crop input retail outlets in west-central Alberta will be networking with seven others by month-end. Crop Management Network (CMN), a joint venture between an employee-owned network of retail outlets and La Coop federee’s Agrico Canada arm, announced Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy Performance Ag Group. Performance Ag, which

Daily Network News

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

U.S. corn planting seen down, soy acres up as Iran war inflates costs, analysts say

Producers affected by bovine TB receive extended tax deferral

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