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GRAINS-Corn falls as planting expectations drag, USDA report supports old-crop

By Reuters May 8, 2013

* Mkt expects rapid corn planting as dry weather forecast * Old-crop corn prices supported ahead of next USDA report later in wk * Wheat drops despite signs of crop stress in key exporting nations By Colin Packham SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. new-crop corn futures fell on Wednesday as expectations for an increase

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn slips on forecasts of better planting weather

By Reuters May 8, 2013

SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. corn futures slipped on Wednesday, reversing gains from the previous session, as forecasts for favourable planting weather weighed on prices. FUNDAMENTALS * Chicago Board Of Trade July corn fell 0.12 percent to $6.39-1/4 a bushel, having gained 0.55 percent in the previous session. * July wheat fell 0.28 percent

Crops, News, Oilseeds

A million acres of glyphosate-resistant weeds in Canada?

By Allan Dawson May 7, 2013

More than one million acres of Canadian farmland have glyphosate-resistant weeds growing on them, including 43,000 in Manitoba, according to an online survey of 2,028 farmers conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing Inc. based in Guelph, Ont. The shockingly high Canadian numbers met with skepticism from some experts who suggest farmers might be mistaking hard-to-kill weeds with

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Steinbach mom develops gluten-free recipes

By Lorraine Stevenson April 26, 2013

Readers occasionally request gluten-free recipes, so I’d like to tell you about Jeanine Friesen this week. The Steinbach mother of two was diagnosed five years ago with Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the body unable to absorb gluten, affecting about one in every 100 to 200 people in Canada. The only treatment is to

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

New-crop concerns loom large over old-crop canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 26, 2013

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended April 19, with the largest gains coming in the old-crop months. Those gains nearby may be tied to the tightening supplies in Western Canada, but have as much to do with new-crop perceptions as anything else. Nobody is writing the crop off just yet,

Beef cattle, Crops, Hogs, Oilseeds

Canada wins China canola access, sees Russia meat barriers

By Rod Nickel April 26, 2013

Canada has not ruled out WTO action against Russia for banning meat  from Canadian plants over ractopamine

China has softened its three-year-old import restrictions on Canadian canola, while Russia is set to erect barriers to some of Canada’s biggest meat-packing plants, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said April 16. China approved one additional oilseed-crushing plant, the 600,000-tonne CNOOC-Biolux plant in Nantong, Jiangsu province, to accept shipments of Canadian canola seed, a crop

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Global inventories of corn, wheat and soybeans higher than expected

By Charles Abbott April 26, 2013

Global inventories of corn, wheat and soybeans will be much larger than expected at the end of 2012-13, with much of the increase driven by bigger U.S. supplies and lower Chinese feed demand, says the USDA. It sharply raised its estimates of ending stocks of the three crops compared with March. Projected corn carry-out was

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Acreage forecasts come with a few grains of salt

By Allan Dawson April 18, 2013

There have been huge crop acreage shifts in the last 15 years, but expert says what happens next is just a guesstimate

Chuck Penner confirmed what most already knew — making price and acreage forecasts isn’t an exact science. “I’m in this business, but I really have to admit that they are really just guesstimates,” the president of LeftField Commodity Research said at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting. “When these people make these crop forecasts

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola growers balk at delivering to cash market

By Dwayne Klassen April 18, 2013

Continued worries over tight old-crop supplies, along with the reluctance of farmers to deliver canola to the country elevator at current cash bids, helped to generate much of the upward price action seen in canola on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform during the week ended April 12. Exporters and domestic processors were the noted

Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion, Our History

Our History: Canola was a ‘calculated’ risk

By J.k. Daun April 18, 2013

It was about three dozen years ago that my friends and colleagues at the then Rapeseed Association of Canada invited me over to discuss the specifications and definition for a new crop. When I arrived, Al Earl, the executive director of the association told me that the board had decided to name the new double-zero-type

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Oilseeds

GRAINS-Corn falls as planting expectations drag, USDA report supports old-crop

GRAINS-Corn slips on forecasts of better planting weather

A million acres of glyphosate-resistant weeds in Canada?

New-crop concerns loom large over old-crop canola

Canada wins China canola access, sees Russia meat barriers

Global inventories of corn, wheat and soybeans higher than expected

Acreage forecasts come with a few grains of salt

Canola growers balk at delivering to cash market

Our History: Canola was a ‘calculated’ risk

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