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Richardson moves further into eastern Alberta retail

Grain firm Richardson Pioneer’s crop input retail business is expanding into an area of eastern Alberta its network hasn’t yet reached. The company, an arm of Winnipeg-based agrifood firm Richardson International, closed a deal April 4 to buy Eagle Agro Services, an inputs dealer at Veteran, Alta., about 200 km east of Red Deer. The

Illinois grain farmer Lucas Strom, shown here April 10 in unincorporated Kane County just west of Chicago, had planned to purchase a grain bin but changed his mind when the price increased after the announcement of steel tariffs by the Trump administration last month. (Photo: Reuters/P.J. Huffstutter)

Crops

Steel tariff shrapnel hits U.S. farmers

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek April 14, 2018

Kane County, Ill. | Reuters — Lucas Strom, who runs a century-old family farm in rural Illinois, canceled an order to buy a new US$71,000 grain bin last month — after the seller raised the price five per cent in a day. The reason: steel prices jumped right after U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs.

Crops, Weather

Extended winter could lead to more Prairie oat acres

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 13, 2018

CNS Canada — With winter still hanging on across Western Canada, one buyer thinks it could lead to an uptick in oat acres. “Later seeding generally increases oat acres. We’d rather see them seeded earlier but farmers have had a tendency when things get late (to) throw some more acres into oats,” said Scott Shiels

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat at one-week low on wetter U.S. outlooks

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 13, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Friday to a one-week low, pressured by forecasts for much-needed rain late next week in the southern Plains winter wheat belt, analysts said. Corn followed wheat lower amid a lack of fresh supportive news, and soybeans turned down, erasing early advances, as nervous traders booked profits

Kubota to relocate Canadian warehousing

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 13, 2018

Japanese tractor and equipment maker Kubota’s Canadian arm plans to decamp its warehousing and head office next year for a new “state of the art” space 25 km east. Kubota Canada announced Thursday it will move those operations from Markham, Ont. to a new facility it will build at Pickering by the end of 2019.

Markets

U.S. to take another look at Pacific trade pact

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 12, 2018

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump has asked his trade advisers to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade pact he withdrew the U.S. from last year, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said. Republican senators met with Trump on Thursday and he told them that he has asked U.S. Trade Representative

Canadian drought conditions at March 31, 2018. (Drought Monitor map, Agr.gc.ca)

Prairie drought conditions improve

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 12, 2018

CNS Canada — While drought conditions in Western Canada have improved following late-season snowfall, it isn’t a completely rosy picture just yet. “We have seen significant departures from normal in terms of precipitation (on the Prairies over) a long period. The winter hasn’t been above average (for precipitation) so there hasn’t been a whole lot

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat sags on sluggish export demand

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell more than one per cent on Thursday on reminders of ample world supplies and strong competition for export business, along with some forecasts for much-needed rains next week in the U.S. Plains, analysts said. Soybean futures rose on export demand for U.S. supplies, and corn ended modestly

Grain Markets, Markets

Prairie wheat bids follow U.S. wheat futures higher

MGEX, CBOT and K.C. May wheat all rose at least four per cent on the week

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 12, 2018

Wheat bids in Western Canada rose for the week ended April 6, following the lead of U.S. futures. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices rose by $13-$16 per tonne across the Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points compiled by PDQ (Price and Data

CN Rail is making a very public apology for poor grain service this past winter.

News, Other

CN apologizes to grain industry for poor performance

The railway says there’s no excuse for what happened this past winter

By Allan Dawson April 12, 2018

CN Rail is making a very public apology to the grain industry. The company admits it didn’t move as much grain as it agreed to earlier this crop year, and is apologizing profusely for it and pledging to do better. And to show it’s serious dismissed its chief executive officer and appointed its chief marketing

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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