Dwayne Klassen

(Resource News International) Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange finished Friday’s session mainly lower with losses associated with a drop-off in demand and weakness in the CBOT soybean complex, market watchers said. WCE western barley values closed sharply higher with a number of months establishing new contract highs on fresh demand and tightening global

(Resource News International) Canada continues to monitor its soybean crops very closely for any signs of the Asian soybean rust disease, but so far no viable spores have been found, said an Ontario provincial crop specialist. “There has not yet been a confirmed case of Asian soybean rust in Ontario,” said Peter Johnson, a cereal

(Resource News International) — Ontario’s soybean harvest is about to gear up while the grain corn harvest is still a few weeks away, according to a provincial cereals specialist. “In terms of the soybean harvest in Ontario, it is full steam ahead where possible,” said Peter Johnson, a cereal specialist with the Ontario Ministry of

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) finished Friday’s session mainly higher. Strength in canola was associated with steady demand and the advances exhibited by CBOT soybean complex values, market watchers said. A firm Canadian dollar and pre-weekend hedging tempered some of the upward price action. Some position evening

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — The harvest of Manitoba’s soybean crop was expected to pick up steam next week with recent cold temperatures not seen as being much of a factor. “We have just entered the early stages of the soybean harvest,” said Bruce Brolley, a pulse industry development specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and

(Resource News International) Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight Wednesday in the grain and oilseed producing regions of central and northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Yields were not likely to have been significantly impacted, but the quality of the crops in those areas probably suffered some more, according to Bruce Burnett, director of the Canadian Wheat Board’s

(Resource News International) Canada’s grain handling and transportation system is expected to be put to the test this fall with few participants expressing any confidence that there will not be some sort of breakdown. “Trying to move all the barley, wheat, canola, peas and other commodities that was sold for fall delivery through the West

(Resource News International) — Harvest operations in southern Alberta were virtually complete, but remained stalled in the central and northern areas of the province, according to a crop specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre. “Wet and cool temperatures in the central and northern areas were slowing crop maturity as well as keeping producers out of

(Resource News International) There were few surprises in the Statistics Canada report on grain stocks in all positions for the period ended July 31, the end of the 2006-07 crop year. The exceptions to the rule, however, were tighter-than-expected wheat supplies and canola stocks a bit larger than anticipated. “The all wheat supply estimate was