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File photo of a sunrise over an Alberta barley crop. (MNphotography/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Weather

Alberta issues final crop report for year

Harvest over 98 per cent done by region and crop type

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MarketsFarm –– For the second year in a row the Alberta harvest wrapped up well ahead of the five-year average. With a gain of three points for the week ended Tuesday, Alberta Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development (AFRED) pegged the combining of major crops at 99.2 per cent complete. That’s 22 and a half
A man looks through piles of trash on a stream in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Oct. 13, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo)
Crops

Haiti gang blockade causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. says

Situation "close to breaking point," WFP rep says

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Miami | Reuters — Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, U.N. officials said on Friday, with more than four million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of gangs has prevented the distribution of diesel and gasoline for over a month to protest a plan to cut fuel subsidies.
CBOT December 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2), MGEX December 2022 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on firm dollar, hopes for Black Sea talks

Lower wheat, dull demand weigh on corn, soybeans

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Friday, surrendering all the prior session’s gains on a stronger dollar and hopes of progress in negotiations to maintain a Ukrainian Black Sea grain export corridor. Corn and soybeans followed wheat lower, weighed down by lacklustre demand and pressured by lower energy and equities markets. On
“These regulatory updates have been made to reflect and keep pace with the current operational realities of grain handling and delivery in Canada.” – Canadian Grain Commission.
News

Grain commission changes advance grading dispute timeline

Producers have a week to ask the CGC to intervene if they want to challenge their initial grain grade

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Grain farmers have a larger window in which to ask the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) for a second opinion if they want to dispute the grade they get at the elevator. The commission announced Oct. 3 that producers will have a week past their delivery date to ask that a sample be submitted to the
CBOT December 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (dark green line), MGEX December 2022 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. December 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies as Russia threatens to quit Black Sea deal

Corn, soybeans pare losses as wheat gains

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rebounded on Thursday from two days of declines on concerns that a Black Sea export corridor deal may not be renewed next month, which could again disrupt grain shipments from Ukraine. Corn and soybeans pared earlier losses on spillover support from wheat and follow-through buying after the U.S.
Canola flirts with $900 a tonne
Grain Markets, Markets

Canola flirts with $900 a tonne

A good selling point appears to be around $880 a tonne

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For a fleeting moment on Oct. 4, it looked like the nearby November canola contract might pierce the $900 per tonne mark.  It would have been the culmination of a meteoric $28/tonne intra-day rise for the oilseed, and a $90 rise over the previous eight sessions, if it hadn’t hit a wall and fallen to
A nameplate outside the Canadian Grain Commission building in downtown Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Farmers get week to dispute grain grade, dockage

Window widened following consultations

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Prairie farmers who want to dispute a grain elevator’s call on their grain’s grade and dockage now officially have up to a week to do so. The Canadian Grain Commission on Oct. 3 announced amendments to the Canada Grain Regulations are now in effect allowing grain growers more time — seven calendar days, to be
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Crops, Weather

Manitoba’s harvest 79 per cent complete, report says

Cereal harvest wrapped in most areas

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MarketsFarm — Harvest operations across Manitoba were 79 per cent complete as of Tuesday, according to the latest crop report from the provincial agriculture department. That figure was up from 63 per cent the previous week, but two weeks off the five-year average of 89 per cent. Harvest progress was the most advanced in central
CBOT November 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: USDA cuts soy, corn crop outlooks, trims demand

Large Russian wheat supplies temper war worries

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped to a two-week high on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unexpectedly cut its U.S. harvest forecast and raised imports by top soy buyer China in a monthly report. Soybean price gains were held in check, however, by expectations for large South American crops that

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