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ICE canola up at midday in pre-holiday trade

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By Phil Franz-Warkentin, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Dec. 21 (MarketsFarm) – The ICE Futures canola market was stronger at midday Tuesday, with thin pre-holiday volumes exaggerating the move. A rally in the Chicago Board of Trade soy complex contributed to the firmer tone in canola, with sharp gains in crude oil bringing buying interest back to the
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Global Markets: Turkey works to shore up currency

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By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Dec. 21 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – After hitting a record low relative to the United States dollar on Monday, the Turkish lira rallied sharply on Tuesday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new measures aimed to safeguard local currency
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ICE Canada Morning Comment: Canola pushing higher in light volumes

Support from soyoil, rapeseed

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WINNIPEG, Dec. 21 (MarketsFarm) – Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) canola futures were higher on Tuesday morning, deriving support from gains in Chicago soyoil and the front months of European rapeseed. Meanwhile, lower Malaysian palm oil weighed on values. With the holiday season trading can be erratic due to reduced volumes. Additional support came from tight canola
A tractor-mounted snowblower runs through rows of piled-up surplus potatoes on a field near Victoria, P.E.I., about 35 km west of Charlottetown, on Dec. 20, 2021. The shredded potatoes are expected to break down over the winter as compost. (Screengrab from P.E.I. Potato Board video)
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Feds put up funds toward managing P.E.I. potato surplus

Ottawa budgets $28 million for distribution and disposal

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Prince Edward Island potatoes locked out of the U.S. export market will go either to food banks or “environmentally-sound” disposal with new federal funding. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced $28 million “to support the diversion of surplus potatoes, including help to redirect surplus potatoes to organizations addressing food insecurity and support for
CME February 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, dark red and black lines). (Barchart)
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U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hog futures sag as broad selling hits markets

Crude, U.S. equities caught in sell-off

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock futures slumped on Monday as traders reduced risk in the face of rising coronavirus cases, brokers said. Selling hit a range of markets including crude oil, which lost more than three per cent, and U.S. stocks. “The risk-off trade is back today,” said Dan Norcini, an independent
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AAFC adjusts grain, oilseed balance sheets slightly

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MarketsFarm –– Updated supply and demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released late Friday, included only minor adjustments to balance sheets for the country’s major crops. The department’s projected ending stocks for wheat and canola were left unchanged from the previous month. Factoring in the official estimates from Statistics Canada, released Dec. 3,

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