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DDGS in storage in Iowa. (Steven Vaughn photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Feed weekly outlook: Canada importing more U.S. DDGS

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — A better-quality Canadian grain crop in 2017 has opened the door to increased imports of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) from the U.S., as Canadian livestock feeders look for other options. Canada imported about 700,000 tonnes of the ethanol byproduct from the U.S. in 2017, the largest imports since 2011 and

Canada’s International Trade Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne goes in to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on March 8 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Reuters/Ivan Alvarado)

Markets

Asia-Pacific nations sign sweeping trade deal without U.S.

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

Santiago | Reuters — Eleven countries including Canada and Japan signed a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement without the U.S. on Thursday in what one minister called a powerful signal against protectionism and trade wars. The deal came as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed earlier in the day to press ahead with a plan to impose

Local news, News

Confusion over CN rail cars to Manitoba

CN delivered cars to Manitoba in Week 30, but they were back-ordered cars and not the cars ordered for Week 30

By Allan Dawson March 8, 2018

There’s confusion over how many rail cars CN Rail sent to Manitoba in shipping Week 30. According to one news report last week, CN sent no grain cars to Manitoba elevators in Week 30. The Ag Transport Coalition (ATC), which monitors grain shipping for a group of grain shippers and farm commodity groups, says CN

The railways say a tough winter has slowed grain traffic. Shippers say a jump in other cargoes has played at least as big a role in derailing grain traffic.

News

Grain companies ask Ottawa to get grain moving again

Elevators and farmers are suffering because grain sales were made on railway shipping projections that fell short

By Allan Dawson March 8, 2018

In the spring of 2014 Western Canada was suffering from a massive grain-shipping backlog and it’s happening all over again. On March 7, 2014, almost four years ago to the day, that backlog forced the federal cabinet to do something radical: order Canada’s two major railways to transport at least 5,500 cars of grain a

Prairie grain movement is preventing farmers from marketing their grain and could mean a spring cash crunch.

News

Farmers call for action from Ottawa on grain transportation

Grain movement has ground to a halt on the Prairies, causing some to recall the crisis of 2013-14

By Alex Binkley March 8, 2018

The federal government needs an immediate action plan to restore adequate grain transportation and ensure Prairie producers have the funds to plant the 2018 crop, farm leaders said March 1. Alarmed by Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s lack of awareness about the gravity of the grain transportation delays when he spoke to the annual meeting of

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn at seven-month high on smaller stockpiles

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer March 8, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped 1.6 per cent to a seven-month high on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed smaller-than-expected stockpiles in the wake of increased exports and demand for ethanol, traders said. Corn prices on a continuous chart notched their biggest daily gains since December, dragging wheat futures higher.

Crops, Weather

Late-season snowstorm brings Prairies moisture

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — After a winter spent waiting for snow, farmers across the southern Prairies were happy when the forecast was right and Western Canada received a late winter snowstorm. “We’ve heard moisture’s coming before and it doesn’t show up or it goes around us. So when it started snowing and it started adding up

AAFC’s Bob Blackshaw talks herbicide-resistance problems and solutions at Brandon’s BASF Knowledge Harvest Feb. 13.

Crops

Manage herbicide resistance in the tank and out

Industry is pushing both chemical and non-chemical solutions to growing herbicide-resistance problems in Manitoba

By Alexis Stockford March 7, 2018

It’s time to expand the tool box when it comes to managing weeds. That was the message to attendees at this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon Feb. 13. As of 2015, there were 65 unique weed-resistance cases in Canada, AAFC’s Bob Blackshaw said, a number that rose from near negligible in 1975 and sat

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy tick lower ahead of USDA report

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer March 7, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat, corn and soybean futures were lower on Wednesday as investors squared up their positions ahead of a monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture report due on Thursday, traders said. Prices for each crop have cooled from last week’s multimonth highs amid dry growing conditions for U.S. wheat and Argentine corn

CN locomotives in Winnipeg. (Photo courtesy CN)

Crops, Weather

CN apologizes as farm groups, Ottawa press on rail service

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 7, 2018

Canada’s largest railway has taken the unusual step of apologizing for its pace of grain delivery in recent weeks and pledging “immediate steps” to improve its grain handle. After parting ways with its CEO Luc Jobin on Monday, Canadian National Railway (CN), through interim CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest, said Wednesday it “apologize(s) for not meeting the

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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