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CBOT September 2019 corn futures with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn, soy gain as market wrestles with export, crop prospects

By GFM Network News July 19, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn and soybean futures settled up on Friday as investors weighed trade talks between the United States and China and expected cooler U.S. weather against uncertainty over acreage levels following a rain-soaked spring. Some analysts said there may be some technical buying pushing up futures, especially soybeans. They also looked

Columns, Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: More showers, then sunny and dry

Forecast issued Monday, July 15, 2019 covering July 17-24, 2019

By Daniel Bezte July 19, 2019

Once again, the weather models did a pretty good job with the forecast. The heat and humidity moved in last weekend as expected and we did see several rounds of thunderstorms move through on Sunday and Monday of last week. This forecast period will begin fairly unsettled as a broad area of low pressure tracks

Columns, Editorial, Farmit Manitoba

Editor’s Take: Canada at a crossroads

By Gord Gilmour July 19, 2019

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Canada remains either a leader or laggard in the realm of support for its agriculture sector, depending on how one approaches the problem. A free market idealist who favours letting the invisible hand sort it all out might think less support to producers is a

Crops

Young grasshoppers’ patience rewarded

Producers are in their sprayer cabs again, this time after grasshoppers

By Alexis Stockford July 19, 2019

Manitoba’s weather has been good for grasshoppers in the last three years, and now some fields are paying the price. “Right now, there’s pockets in the province that do have some very high levels of grasshoppers,” provincial entomologist John Gavloski said. “There’s quite a bit of edge spraying going on where people are trying to

CBOT August 2019 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy falls on cooler weather, China cancellation

By GFM Network News July 18, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures settled down following a choppy day of trading on Thursday, after hitting the lowest level in more than a week on forecasts for cooler weather and export data showing China had canceled soy purchases for the first time since April. U.S. Agriculture Department data showed the world’s top

SGS’s cereals lab in Guelph at its official opening in 2016. (SGS.com)

Crops

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff July 18, 2019

Geneva | Reuters — Swiss inspections group SGS plans to trim its workforce by 2,000 across about 120 countries in a process of natural attrition rather than sudden cuts or corporate restructuring, company spokesman Daniel Rufenacht said on Thursday. CEO Frankie Ng was earlier quoted by Swiss newspapers Handelszeitung and Tribune de Geneve as saying

Farmobile’s PUC unit. (Video screengrab from Farmobile.com via YouTube)

Crops

Grain equipment firm AGI takes stake in Farmobile

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff July 18, 2019

Canadian grain handling and storage equipment maker Ag Growth International plans to dial up its collaboration with ag tech firm Farmobile and has taken a minority stake in the U.S. company to that end. Winnipeg-based AGI announced Tuesday it had agreed to make a “minority equity investment” of US$15 million (C$19.57 million) in Farmobile, effective

Crops

Crops progressing thanks to rain

By Marlo Glass July 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — Crops across Manitoba were progressing steadily thanks to good amounts of rain across the province last week, according to Manitoba Agriculture’s most recent crop report. Rainfall volumes varied in the southwest region. Southern parts of the region received severe thunderstorms with precipitation around 130 millimetres. However, the northern area still required more rain.

News, News & Opinion

Canada’s barley sector streamlining for synergy

Barley Council, Cereals Canada, CMBTC, Brewing and Malting Research Institute formalize collaboration

By Allan Dawson July 17, 2019

Canada’s barley industry wants to become more efficient and effective through increased co-operation, says Barley Council of Canada (BCC) chair Zenneth Faye. To that end the BCC “will undergo a strategic realignment” with Cereals Canada, the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC), and the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute (BMBRI) starting Aug. 1. “The

CBOT September 2019 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybeans slightly lower after midday rise

By GFM Network News July 17, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat and soybean futures settled slightly lower on Wednesday as forecasts for cooler weather lifted expectations for better crop conditions after this week’s hot spell, though corn edged higher. Markets had been falling since Monday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) weekly crop progress report, which showed conditions for soy and

Daily Network News

China’s Q1 pork output up 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, lags expectations

Conservative MP introduces bill to speed approvals of seeds, fertilizers

ICE Weekly: More to canola price gains than Middle East war

Cereals

U.S. grains: Corn, soy gain as market wrestles with export, crop prospects

Forecast: More showers, then sunny and dry

Editor’s Take: Canada at a crossroads

Young grasshoppers’ patience rewarded

U.S. grains: Soy falls on cooler weather, China cancellation

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

Grain equipment firm AGI takes stake in Farmobile

Crops progressing thanks to rain

Canada’s barley sector streamlining for synergy

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybeans slightly lower after midday rise

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