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A file photo of Brazil’s Mata Atlantica (Atlantic rainforest). (FG Trade/E+/Getty Images)

Brazil ag minister eyes indigenous land for commercial farming

By Anthony Boadle, GFM Network News January 18, 2019

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazil should open indigenous land to commercial farming, Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said on Friday, while also seeking to soften many of President Jair Bolsonaro’s controversial stances on native people and the environment. Farmers form a key base of support for right-wing firebrand Bolsonaro who since taking office Jan. 1

CBOT March 2019 soybeans with 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Renewed optimism for China trade talks lifts grains

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 18, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures rose for a third straight session on Friday in a broad commodities and equities market rally sparked by renewed optimism about U.S.-China trade talks. Wheat edged upward along with corn and soy, but shed gains late in the day as traders pocketed profits fueled by media

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices stable during mild winter

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News January 18, 2019

With the mild winter Western Canada has been experiencing, feed grain buyers expect prices should stay quiet for the next while. “I would say the buyers have adequate coverage for January, February, even a bit of March. And I would say we maybe have seen the (barley) price soften up a bit,” said Nelson Neumann,

Grain Millers’ Saskatchewan milling plant at Yorkton. (GrainMillers.com)

Crops

Glyphosate raises milling questions

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2019

There’s more to the controversy surrounding glyphosate than whether the herbicide is safe to use or not: one miller has said it found oats and other grains treated with pre-harvest glyphosate don’t mill as well as untreated grains. Since 2015, Grain Millers Inc. has had a glyphosate-free policy on oats, said Eric Deblieck, a crop

CBOT March 2019 soybeans with 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy break through key technical levels

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 17, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, soybean and wheat futures climbed for a second straight session on Thursday in a short-covering and technical bounce following a steep drop earlier this week. Gains in wheat ignited the rally as hopes for a pickup in U.S. wheat export demand pushed prices through key technical levels. Corn and

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Weather

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 17, 2019

Rural economic development has been given a promotion at the federal level in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle. In the shuffle, following the departure of Treasury Board president Scott Brison from cabinet, Trudeau on Monday called up Bernadette Jordan, MP for the southern Nova Scotia riding of South Shore-St.Margaret’s, to head a newly

USDA’s main home page on Jan. 11, 2019. (GFM Staff photo)

Markets

USDA recalls workers to help with farm loans, taxes; data uncertain

By GFM Network News January 16, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reopen about 980 Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices for three days starting on Thursday to help process farm loans and tax documents during the partial federal government shutdown. About 2,500 FSA employees who have been furloughed by the partial shutdown that began on Dec. 22

CBOT March 2019 wheat with 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds in export demand, bargain buying

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 16, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures firmed on Wednesday in a bargain-buying and short-covering bounce as the market’s steep drop to six-week lows in the previous session triggered renewed demand for the feed grain. Wheat and soybeans also rebounded after both markets hit two-week lows on Tuesday, although buying interest evaporated late in the

CBOT March 2019 corn with 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on concerns about China trade talks

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 15, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for the third time in four sessions on Tuesday on worries that the United States and China remain far apart in resolving a bitter trade fight that has slashed U.S. soy imports by the world’s top buyer. Corn and wheat followed soybeans lower, with technical selling accelerating

Dry conditions can have lingering effects like higher pesticide residue levels that must be managed at the farm level to protect trade opportunities.

Crops

A risky business

Moisture extremes are just one of the realities that make farming in Manitoba a real challenge and can affect trade

By Angela Lovell January 14, 2019

In recent years grain production in Manitoba has been batted from one weather extreme to another. There have been cool, wet seasons and hot, dry seasons. And each leave effects that linger far after the last bushel is harvested that can have big and unpredictable effects like a trade crisis because of an unexpected herbicide

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle rise to new highs on tight supply, strong cash prices

U.S. grains: Soybeans slip on profit-taking, China trade worries

Ample supplies and improved livestock sector to boost Canadian feed sector: FCC

Cereals

Brazil ag minister eyes indigenous land for commercial farming

U.S. grains: Renewed optimism for China trade talks lifts grains

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices stable during mild winter

Glyphosate raises milling questions

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy break through key technical levels

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

USDA recalls workers to help with farm loans, taxes; data uncertain

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds in export demand, bargain buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on concerns about China trade talks

A risky business

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