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Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 2

Conditions as of May 9, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development May 10, 2016

Seeding progress in Manitoba is estimated at 48 per cent complete. Seeding is 45 per cent complete in the Southwest Region, 35 per cent complete in the Northwest Region, 40 to 75 per cent complete in the Central Region, 45 per cent complete in the Eastern Region and 40 per cent complete in the Interlake

Crops, Markets

Glencore in talks to sell further stake in ag unit

By GFM Network News May 6, 2016

London | Reuters — Commodity trader and miner Glencore is in talks to sell a further 9.9 per cent stake in its agricultural unit, negotiating with bidders that missed out on the 40 per cent sold to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Glencore, whose ag

Crops, Markets

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian canola and wheat supplies are much tighter heading into the final months of the 2015-16 crop year than they were at the same point a year ago, according to Statistics Canada’s latest stocks report. StatsCan pegged the country’s canola stocks, as of March 31, at 7.49 million tonnes in its report

Crops

Cost index for railways’ grain revenue cap gets boost

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 29, 2016

The loonie’s decline since last year has led federal regulators to dial up the index guiding how much money Canada’s big two railways get to keep from hauling Prairie grain. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) announced Friday it will raise its volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) by 4.8 per cent, to 1.3275, for the 2016-17

Crops, Markets

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 26, 2016

CNS Canada — Lukewarm prices for oats, coupled with dry conditions in Alberta and soggy conditions in Manitoba, are crimping acreage this year. Generally known as one of the hardier crops around, oats haven’t been setting any record highs on price charts, resulting in a forecast of 11 per cent less acreage in Canada. “The

Crops

CN books lower first-quarter grain handle

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 25, 2016

Higher revenue per carload offset reduced grain and fertilizer traffic for Canadian National Railway (CN) in its first fiscal quarter. Montreal-based CN on Monday reported overall net income of $792 million on total revenues of $2.964 billion for the quarter ending March 31, up from $704 million on $3.098 billion in the year-earlier Q1. The

Crops

Ottawa moves to extend expanded rail interswitching

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 22, 2016

Prairie crop growers hoping that changes in federal rail freight rules will continue past their expiration date are about to get their wish. Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Friday announced they would bring forward a resolution in Parliament to extend provisions of the previous government’s Bill C-30, the Fair Rail

Crops

CP pulls more grain for less in first quarter

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 22, 2016

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) hauled more carloads of Canadian grain in its first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period last year — but for less revenue per car. Calgary-based CP on Wednesday reported overall net income of $540 million on revenues of $1.591 billion for its quarter ending March 31, up from $320

Crops, Markets

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers will be seeding record acres of peas and lentils this spring, as expected, but the increases to pulse crops are coming at the expense of canola — which saw acres come in below expectations in a report out from Statistics Canada. In its first acreage survey of the year, released

Crops, Markets

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 21, 2016

Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola than expected, and will sow record-large areas with pulse crops, according to the government’s first farmer survey of crop sowings for 2016, released on Thursday. Wheat seedings are also expected to decline, but not as much as traders and analysts expected on average. Statistics Canada estimated that

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Oats

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 2

Glencore in talks to sell further stake in ag unit

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

Cost index for railways’ grain revenue cap gets boost

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

CN books lower first-quarter grain handle

Ottawa moves to extend expanded rail interswitching

CP pulls more grain for less in first quarter

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

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