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Comment: The road to perdition always leads south
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Comment: The road to perdition always leads south

U.S. farmers are stuck between a rock and a hard place due to Trump’s trade wars


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If war is hell, then trade wars must be a purgatorial stop along the way. For proof, just look where Election Day 2018 finds American farmers. Faced with ample production, stale commodity prices, and the lowest forecasted national farm income since 2002, U.S. farmers are now waiting for a winter of government “tariff mitigation” payments
Social media via a particular president served up a short term spike in canola markets on Nov. 1.
Grain Markets, Markets

A tweet spikes the canola market

President Donald Trump’s revelation of a trade discussion with China caused brief excitement

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The canola market started the week in a dismal situation, but that all changed Nov. 1 when a tweet sent the commodity markets flying. However, by the next day the canola market corrected and finished the week lower overall. South American seeding and the ongoing trade war between China and the United States saw the
Manitoba hemp growers could see new markets, including non-human food markets like cattle feed, develop in the coming years.
Crops, News

Hearings planned for hemp agency

Farm Products Council is seeking feedback on a proposed hemp promotion and research group

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The Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC) is seeking input on a proposal for a hemp group. The Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion and Research Agency (PRA) would be funded by levies applied to domestically produced and imported hemp products. The first step for FPCC is to collect views from interested persons or groups on the
Most Canadian farmers praise quick passage of CPTPP law
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Most Canadian farmers praise quick passage of CPTPP law

New opportunities and a levelled playing field with other agriculture exporters are lauded

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Canada’s grain farmers and other export-oriented producers have issued statements praising the Canadian government for quickly passing legislation ratifying the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) paving the way for Canadian farmers to see increased export volumes that could result in higher farm revenues as early as next spring. Alberta Wheat and Barley
A Farm Credit Canada report says Canadian canola exports to the U.S. have dropped by 11.8 per cent and down 10.6 per cent to China.
Markets, News

China/U.S. trade disruptions a big reason for canola, wheat price volatility

Farm Credit Canada releases new report regarding commodity prices

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Prices for canola and wheat are volatile thanks to world trade tensions, including trade disruptions between China and the United States. The volatility is a cause for concern according to Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) new report, Navigating Trade Disruptions and Volatility, released Oct. 31. The price uncertainty can lead changes in the markets and if
Grain shippers say it’s taking some time to bring all the provisions of the new transportation law into effect, but they’re not concerned.
News, Other

Transport regulation changes unused

It’s partly because grain is moving well, but it’s also taking time to develop level-of-service agreements

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Most of the provisions designed to improve rail service for grain in the Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49), which became law five months ago this week, have yet to take effect. But that’s neither a surprise nor a disappointment to Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), which pushed hard for
pea seedlings
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Comment: Expect the unexpected in push to build plant protein sector

Demand will rise, but new pulse supercluster will have to be nimble to seize opportunity

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Pardon the pun, but the agricultural industry’s pulse was palpably high in the downtown hotel ballroom earlier this month as 300 leaders gathered to officially launch the Protein Industries Canada supercluster. The ‘Thought Leaders Summit’ was designed to get stakeholders in the plant-based protein value chain singing from the same song sheet, albeit in four-part
Dan Strieggl and his son Issac inspect new farm equipment at the 2018 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, U.S., 
August 28, 2018.
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Trump trade war delivers farm boom in Brazil, gloom in Iowa

So far U.S. farmers have been the biggest casualty in the early trade battles

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Reuters – The Bella Vita luxury condominium tower rises 20 storeys over the boom town of Luís Eduardo Magalhães in northeastern Brazil. Its private movie theatre and helipad are symbols of how far this dusty farming community has come since it was founded just 18 years ago. Local soybean producers shell out upwards of a
News, Other

Seed industry applauds PBR consultations

Sessions will be held in four cities — including Winnipeg — with seed growers and other groups

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Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be consulting with seed trade groups in the coming weeks on proposed Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations released in April. Those sessions in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Ottawa will be followed up with sessions in November that will include the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Grain Growers of
Grain toll proposed for St. Lawrence Seaway
Other, Our History

Grain toll proposed for St. Lawrence Seaway

Our History: October 1958

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Farmers’ returns were a theme running through our issues in October 1958. In the main front-page story in the Oct. 9 issue, we reported that the three Prairie pools had raised concerns with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker about the prospect of tolls on grain going through the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway. Their brief said

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