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Market Upside Limited From Flooded Prairie Acres

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 7, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were mostly lower during the holiday-shortened week ended June 30, as a sell-off in U.S. grains and oilseeds spilled over to weigh on values. While weather problems in parts of Western Canada and unseeded acres remain supportive, improving crop prospects for the canola that’s in the ground served to lessen

Hogs, Opinion

Cautious U.S. Hog Herd Expansion Underway

May 5, 2011

Record-high hog prices and strong demand from overseas markets are spurring U.S. hog farmers to pursue production expansion opportunities. But with global hog output expected to hit a record in 2011, producers need to be cautious about overexpansion – especially in the current environment of record-high input prices. U.S. hog farmers have been faced with

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Processors, Dairy Producers Butt Heads Again

By Alex Binkley March 17, 2011

They’ve promised to try to get along better but processors and dairy producers look set to get into another scrap over the amount of milk in a dairy product. Saputo and Kraft Canada went to court when Ottawa imposed new compositional standards for cheese, which required greater use of milk, in 2008. In February, the

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Economic Uncertainty Sends Speculators Packing

March 17, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered a major price setback during the week ended March 11, with much of the downward price slide associated with the unloading of positions by speculative accounts. None of the liquidation orders were based on fundamentals; rather, individuals were unnerved by ongoing tensions in the Middle

Cereals, Crops

Sky-High Crop Acreage Targets Likely A Pipe Dream

By Gavin Maguire March 3, 2011

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reiterated its projections for record-high combined plantings of corn, cotton and soybeans this spring at its annual Outlook Forum, dealing a fresh blow to crop prices by standing by its projections for potentially record-high crop production in 2011. But while record U.S. crop-planting estimates are all well and good on

Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada Hog Supplies Rise, Cattle Herd Shrinks

By Rod Nickel February 24, 2011

Canada’s hog supplies edged higher year over year for the first time in nearly five years as of Jan. 1, while its cattle herd fell to the lowest January level in 16 years, Statistics Canada said Feb. 17. Reductions in numbers of beef cows and sows, however, represent diminished potential to expand herds and suggest

Hogs, Livestock

Heavier Carcasses Good For Producer And Processor

February 17, 2011

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. The trend to heavier hog carcass weights benefits both the producer and the processor, said two speakers at the recent Banff Pork Seminar. Ron Gietz, with

News

U.S. Hog Data Shows Producers Not Expanding

By Bob Burgdorfer January 6, 2011

The latest U.S. Agriculture Department data shows the smallest Dec. 1 U.S. hog herd in four years, indicating that U.S. hog producers pocketed profits from this year’s high hog prices rather than investing them in herd expansion. Worries about high feed grain prices likely thwarted expansion, analysts said. Corn prices are above $6 per bushel,

Beef cattle, Livestock

Herd Rebuilding Still A Ways Off

By Ed Stoddard December 16, 2010

U.S. beef demand is good given the fragile nature of America’s economic recovery but corn prices and La Nińa are seen constraining expansion of the country’s biggest cattle herd in Texas, the head of the state’s cattle raisers association said Dec. 10. “I think we are very fortunate to have the demand that we have

Livestock, Oilseeds, Other livestock

Smaller U.S. Cattle And Hog Herds

November 18, 2010

U.S. cattle and hog producers will likely reduce herds now that it appears there will be even less corn and soybean meal for feed, analysts said. Chicken producers, who have been rapidly expanding flocks, may slow that process now that higher-priced corn and soybean meal appear to be here to stay, analysts said. “Feed costs

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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