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Seeding nears completion, rapid germination, crop growth seen

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for May 28

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Seeding is nearing completion for the 2018 season in Manitoba, with progress estimated at 94 per cent complete. Most areas of the province received rainfall, although amounts were variable. Additional precipitation is needed in many areas. The recent rains combined with warm temperatures have resulted in rapid germination, emergence, and crop growth. Herbicide applications are
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in Washington, D.C. on May 31, 2017. (Global Affairs Canada screengrab via YouTube)
Markets

Freeland to visit Washington this week for NAFTA talks

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will visit Washington this week in another bid to help unblock talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement, a spokesman said on Monday. Freeland will be in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, said spokesman Adam Austen. The U.S., Mexico and Canada are struggling to
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Crops

CP employees to walk the line Tuesday night

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Barring any last-minute deals, conductors, engineers and signal maintainers at Canadian Pacific Railway plan to be on strike as of 9 p.m. CT Tuesday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents about 360 CP signal maintenance staff, both announced Saturday
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Crops

Bayer cuts Monsanto synergy target on divestments

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Bonn | Reuters — Bayer said positive synergy effects from the planned takeover of U.S. seeds and chemical firm Monsanto would be about US$300 million below its previous target because it will sell more businesses than initially expected to get antitrust approval. Bayer CEO Werner Baumann again threw his weight behind the deal, despite higher
Hard white winter wheat growing in North Carolina in 2010. (Dave Marshall photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies on dry weather fears

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures jumped more than two per cent on Friday and ended the week up nearly five per cent as worries about dry weather in key global production regions fueled short-covering and speculative buying. Soybeans advanced for the fifth time in six sessions on renewed Chinese buying of U.S. export
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Crops

CP employees reject company’s ‘final’ offers

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Conductors, engineers and signal maintainers at Canadian Pacific Railway are again within striking distance of striking. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents about 360 CP signal maintenance staff, confirmed Friday their members have voted to reject what CP described
Weaker loonie drives up Prairie wheat bids
Grain Markets, Markets

Weaker loonie drives up Prairie wheat bids

MGEX, CBOT and K.C. July wheat contracts all rose in value on the week

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A weaker Canadian dollar combined with rising U.S. futures drove wheat bids in Western Canada higher for the week ended May 18. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent) wheat prices were up by $10-$11 per tonne across the Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from a cross-section of
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Similar but not the same

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After decades of watching the sector consolidate around them, it seems as though agriculture industry associations and groups have now decided this is also the right strategy for them. We’ve seen a handful of Manitoba commodity groups working together and now promoting the concept of a merger into a single larger group. The aim is

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