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A worker pushes a cart of marijuana plants at the Canopy Growth facility at Smiths Falls, Ont. on Jan. 4, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Chris Wattie)

Bargain hunters fire up rally in cannabis stocks

By GFM Network News January 25, 2020

New York | Reuters — Some cannabis stocks are seeing their prices surge as investors hunt for winners in the ashes of an industry shakeout that hammered share prices last year. Shares of Tilray Inc. and Canopy Growth Corp. have climbed more than 20 per cent since the start of the year, while Cronos Group

CBOT March 2020 soybeans with 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as China virus sparks selling

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek January 25, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures sank to their lowest level in more than six weeks on Friday as fears over the coronavirus spreading from China triggered broad-based selling. Corn and wheat futures also weakened as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a second U.S. case of the new virus in

ICE Futures March 2020 canola with 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

High stocks-to-use ratio weighs on canola

By GFM Network News January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — The Canadian canola stocks-to-use ratio was over 20 per cent at the end of 2019 — significantly higher than the five-year average of 13.4 per cent. “That’s part of the reason why we’re seeing downward pressure on canola prices,” Craig Klemmer, chief agriculture economist for Farm Credit Canada (FCC), explained during his presentation

Crops, Markets

Large funds back on short side in soybeans

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — Large fund traders have moved back to the short side in soybeans while only making small adjustments in canola, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in ICE Futures canola came in Tuesday at 20,366 contracts on

New malt varieties are being developed that nearly match the yields of feed and that will create new interest in barley, says breeder Aaron Beattie.

Cereals, News

Wheat research coalition inks first major agreement

THE CWRC has committed over $9.6 million to the Crop Development Centre at the University of Saskatchewan

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 24, 2020

The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) has committed more than $9.6 million over five years to a ‘core breeding agreement’ with the Crop Development Centre (CDC) at the University of Saskatchewan. The funding will support the development of new spring wheat cultivars. The research dollars will increase field-based breeding activities, the disease nursery and disease

An artists’ rendition of the Merit Functional Foods plant under construction in Winnipeg. Merit also recently picked up support from research “supercluster” Protein Industries Canada to help further develop pea and canola proteins. (Meritfoods.com)

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Nestle to source plant proteins from Winnipeg

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel January 24, 2020

Winnipeg/Zurich | Reuters — Food company Nestle SA said on Friday it has teamed up with small Canadian plant-based food ingredient makers Burcon and Merit Functional Foods, the second such supply agreement this month that targets Canadian crops. Meat substitutes from plants in burgers, nuggets and many other foods are a fast-growing industry, driving up

Crops, Markets

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the previous year. Production is forecast

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Temperatures rise, Prairie bids cool down

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in southern Alberta are cooling down as temperatures warm up after a bitter cold spell earlier in the month. After dealing with temperatures in the -20 C to -34 C range over much of the week ended Jan. 17, conditions in the key Lethbridge feeding area have flipped the other

ICE Futures March 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t expect China to buy if Huawei exec goes free

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola traders have been keeping a close eye on this week’s extradition hearings for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. The hearing is to determine whether Meng will be extradited to the U.S., which requested her arrest by Canadian authorities in December 2018. China, in the wake of that arrest, detained

Forecaster Drew Lerner speaks at Ag Days 2020 in Brandon. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Alexis Stockford)

Crops, Weather

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

By GFM Network News January 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian producers looking for challenging growing conditions elsewhere in the world to prop up commodity prices may be disappointed during the 2020 growing season. South America “If you’re looking for any help from South America for your canola or soybeans or corn, you’d better look somewhere else,” Drew Lerner, president of World Weather

Daily Network News

Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

Crops

Bargain hunters fire up rally in cannabis stocks

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as China virus sparks selling

High stocks-to-use ratio weighs on canola

Large funds back on short side in soybeans

Wheat research coalition inks first major agreement

Nestle to source plant proteins from Winnipeg

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

Feed weekly outlook: Temperatures rise, Prairie bids cool down

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t expect China to buy if Huawei exec goes free

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

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