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Manitoba has several cash advance administrators

While loan limits are consistent some things differ between organizations

By Allan Dawson May 26, 2019

Farmers seeking cash advances have lots of options. In Manitoba several organizations administer the federal government’s Advance Payments Program and staff are happy to answer questions including on the recently announced changes aimed at helping farmers in the wake of China’s canola seed boycott, says Pam de Rocquigny, general manager of the Manitoba Corn Growers

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 4, 2019.

Grain Markets, Markets

Latest twist in U.S. spat with China helping no one

Canola prices will continue to take collateral damage

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 16, 2019

After a glimmer of happier days when canola bounced upward on May 7, the grim reality was destined to set back in. After a bit of a dip on May 10, starting May 13 canola bids were being dragged down by sinking soybean futures, as the U.S./China trade war heated up after an eight-month truce.

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Hands up!

By Gord Gilmour May 16, 2019

As someone who just turned 50 this past winter, I have no personal memories of the Great Grain Robbery of the summer of 1972, only what I’ve heard and read. The tongue-in-cheek name references the Great Train Robbery nine years earlier, when a Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London was relieved of 2.6 million

Hogs, News

Value chain for sale

The recent HyLife deal demonstrates how foreign buyers love vertically integrated companies

By Alexis Stockford May 16, 2019

Offshore buyers don’t just love your products anymore. Some also want a cross-section of the whole value chain. For evidence, look no further than the recent sale of Manitoba’s HyLife Foods to the Thai-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), the third-largest sow company in the world. Once finalized, the deal will hand off 50.1 per

Manitoba land increased by five per cent in 2017, and 8.1 per cent in 2016.

News, Other

Prairie farmland values increase in 2018

Lower-valued land sees an increase in demand, indicating land purchases based on proximity

By Marlo Glass May 13, 2019

Farmland values across Canada increased by an average of 6.6 per cent in 2018, according to a recently published report by Farm Credit Canada (FCC). Average farmland values increased across all Prairie provinces. Saskatchewan and Alberta saw the highest average increase, both at 7.4 per cent, while Manitoba was below the national average at 3.7

As American farmers head into the 2019 growing season, a trade deal between the U.S. and China can’t come soon enough.

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Spring needs to bring thaw in agricultural trade

U.S. farmers and ranchers need their markets back

By Alan Guebert May 13, 2019

For those of us who have slid, shovelled, and skated through the wildest up-and-down winter weather in years, here’s a warm thought: planting is well underway in parts of North America, with more to come soon. After that brief pleasantness, however, the outlook gets pretty cold pretty fast. Early February reports from the U.S. Department

Oil and meal haven’t been the target of Chinese trade troubles yet, but there’s little capacity to expand processing here at home.

Crops, Oilseeds

Canola crush processing near capacity

That limits their ability to offset lost seed sales to China by processing more 

By Allan Dawson May 6, 2019

Don’t look to Canada’s canola crushers for relief from the Chinese canola seed bans. Canola oil and meal are still being exported to China, but because Canadian crushers are working at almost full capacity there’s not much opportunity to offset the loss of canola seed exports to China with increased shipments of oil and meal.

Biofuel or Corn Syrup, gasoline, energy, environmentalist

Comment, Opinion

Comment: Ethanol’s tightening tough spot

Ethanol is facing a shrinking gasoline market

By Alan Guebert May 6, 2019

Ethanol is in a tight spot, according to Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois. On April 12, Irwin published an analysis of today’s ethanol market on the university’s farmdocDAILY website under the workmanlike title of “Implications of Recent Trends in U.S. Gasoline Consumption for Ethanol.” In it Irwin calculated that a

News, Oilseeds

Why so much Canadian canola has gone to China

The economic superpower is the biggest buyer of many agricultural products

By Allan Dawson April 29, 2019

China has been buying about 40 per cent of the canola seed Canada exports, so losing that market, even temporarily, is a blow. That’s a lot of eggs in one basket. But it shouldn’t be a surprise, says Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) vice-president of public affairs and president of the Canadian

HyLife Foods staff work in the recently expanded integrated pork-processing plant in Neepawa.

Hogs, News

HyLife to hand over to Thai conglomerate

Over half of HyLife Foods stock will belong to Thai-based conglomerate CPF once the deal closes

By Alexis Stockford April 26, 2019

Manitoba pork giant HyLife Foods will soon have someone else calling the shots. The company announced a deal with Thailand-based exporter Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) for 50.1 of the company’s stock April 22. The $498-million deal adds HyLife to the conglomerate’s list of companies, which span 17 countries and include hogs, chickens,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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