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An air-fryer grilled cheese and ham sandwich. (Dempsters.ca)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Canada Bread fined $50 million over price-fixing

'Leniency' settlement follows breadmaker's guilty plea

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A storied Canadian producer of bread and bakery products has a month to pay a $50 million fine for price-fixing in an ongoing federal probe which still has eyes on several major retailers. Ontario’s Superior Court on Wednesday sentenced Toronto-based Canada Bread Co. after the company pled guilty to four counts of fixing bread prices
File photo of a barley seedling. (SusanHSmith/iStock/Getty Images)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Short-term premiums add to fluctuations

Truckers seen trying to stay as local as possible

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MarketsFarm — Although most feed grain buyers were fairly well covered through spring seeding, Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. at Edmonton said some were looking for feed to get through the coming weeks and offered premiums. “Which is a shock for seeding season,” she said, suggesting it’s best to shop around, with prices fluctuating
File photo of a barley seedling. (SusanHSmith/iStock/Getty Images)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Grain area to increase this year

Oats area expected to be reduced

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MarketsFarm — Early signs point to increased Canadian feed grain production in 2023-24, with record corn acreage intentions and increases in both barley and wheat area on the year, according to the latest estimates from Statistics Canada. Planted corn area in the country is forecast at 3.725 million acres in 2023, which would be up
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prices continue to soften as April approaches

Seeding start in Alberta remains a question mark

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MarketsFarm — Corn is still moving into feedlots in southern Alberta as it approaches not only the end of its contracts, but also the end of winter. “We’ve been seeing here in Lethbridge prices at $395-$400 per tonne ($10.03-$10.16 per bushel),” said Erin Harakal, trade manager at Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. “It seems
A cereal crop infected with fusarium head blight.
Cereals, Crops

Nasties can also catch a ride on raw flour

Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us,’ but fungi in flour have been making people sick for a long time

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In the HBO series “The Last of Us,” named after the popular video game of the same name, the flour supplies of the world are contaminated with a fungus called cordyceps. When people eat pancakes or other foods made with that flour, the fungi grow inside their bodies and turn them into zombies. As a
Drought-resistant wheat may appeal to farmers in that region, where crops such as corn and soybeans have recently faced water stress.
Cereals, News

Brazil approves cultivation of GM wheat

Only Argentina had approved a biotech wheat until now

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Brazil has become the second country in the world, after Argentina, to approve the cultivation of genetically modified wheat, following a decision by the nation’s biosecurity agency CTNbio. The approval request was made by plant genetics company Tropical Melhoramento e Genetica, a partner in Brazil of Argentina’s Bioceres, which has developed a variety of drought-resistant
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed grain weekly: Prices slip back on good supplies

Demand for corn from Manitoba, U.S. wanes

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MarketsFarm — There are sufficient supplies of feed barley, wheat and corn across the Prairies, according to Evan Peterson, trader with JGL Commodities. In turn, that’s putting pressure on prices. Peterson said a shortage of trucks and truck drivers last summer and fall led buyers to acquire as much feed as possible to get through
Oats. (Greg Berg photo)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Grain bids quietly drift lower

Oats still making their way into feedlots

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MarketsFarm — Prices for feed barley and wheat in Western Canada drifted lower during the week ended Wednesday. Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta., said a relatively milder winter across the Prairies has resulted in less consumption of feed grains in feedlots. In turn, feedlots are not purchasing as much
Sheila elder (third from right) visits a flour mill in Ecuador with members of the Latin America new crop mission. The mill uses almost exclusively Canadian wheat, Elder said.
Cereals, News

Supply, sustainability top of mind for Canada’s wheat customers

Cereals Canada’s new crop missions found millers and bakers eager to ensure their supply of wheat amid global food insecurity

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Latin American millers and bakers were keen to learn about Canadian farmers’ sustainability practices, says a Manitoba farmer recently returned from a Cereals Canada new crop mission. “There was a lot that we just weren’t letting people know that we actually do,” said Sheila Elder, a farmer from Wawanesa. Elder participated in Cereals Canada’s crop

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