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Farm lender delivers ebullient view of Manitoba ag

Farm Credit Canada’s Darren Howden says agriculture is faring much better than many other industries

By Allan Dawson February 16, 2021

Manitoba’s agriculture industry is generally financially fit, a senior executive with Farm Credit Canada (FCC) told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) online annual meeting Jan. 26. “Grains and oilseeds are doing really well,” Darren Howden, FCC’s senior vice-president of Prairie operations,” told KAP members. “That’s the sector we have the most business in, in Manitoba. There was a really

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Olymel to close Red Deer hog plant against COVID-19

Hog deliveries suspended 'until further notice'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 16, 2021

Meat packer Olymel plans to temporarily close its hog slaughter and pork processing plant at Red Deer, Alta., winding down that facility’s operations starting this week against a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak among workers. The plant, one of Canada’s largest by slaughter capacity at over 45,000 hogs per week, has notified its hog suppliers and

Incoming WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes part in an online meeting before speaking during an interview with Reuters in Potomac, Maryland on Feb. 15, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Markets

Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala makes history as new head of WTO

Geneva-based body leaderless for six months; Trump paralyzed some of WTO's functions

By Emma Farge, GFM Network News February 16, 2021

Geneva/Washington | Reuters — Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization. A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work

An image created by Nexu Science Communication, together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus, the type of virus linked to COVID-19. (Nexu Science Communication via Reuters)

Foreign workers to lose some travel exemptions in March

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News February 13, 2021

Temporary foreign workers (TFWs) travelling to Canada won’t need to quarantine in a government-supervised hotel when they get here – for now — but by mid-March, Ottawa will put more stringent measures in place. Starting Feb. 22, non-essential travellers and essential workers arriving in Canada will be tested for COVID-19 upon their arrival. Non-essential travellers

Markets

Glacier’s outdoor ag shows preparing digital event lineup

Each show to host multiple online events during 2021

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 12, 2021

The company hosting Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and its western counterpart, Ag in Motion, plans to use the online platforms it set up in 2020 to instead host multiple smaller online events this year. Both outdoor ag shows hosted by Winnipeg-based Glacier FarmMedia — the owner of this website — went online in 2020 due

News, Other

Virtual trade missions a logistical boon but relational challenge

Cereals Canada and the Canola Council of Canada held online trade missions this year and say they were a success

By Geralyn Wichers February 9, 2021

Virtual trade missions have given access to a wider audience but can’t quite replace the connections forged on in-person trips, say two agriculture industry leaders. “There’s no way to replace it, in a sense,” said Brittany Dyck, senior manager of canola utilization with the Canola Council of Canada. “Trade missions, I think, are really about connecting with —

CME April 2021 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME hogs touch contract high for third day

Cattle futures up with beef exports

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek February 5, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures climbed on Thursday, setting a contract high for the third consecutive day on firm Chinese demand, traders said. Weekly U.S. pork export sales to China, the world’s top pork consumer, reached a three-month high of 17,873 tonnes in the week ended Jan. 28, according to the U.S.

News, Other

Travel restrictions won’t impact TFWs: federal sources

These workers are deemed essential by the federal government and can quarantine on farm

By D.C. Fraser February 4, 2021

New travel restrictions imposed on Canadians by the federal government won’t impact the arrival of temporary or seasonal foreign workers, according to sources. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Jan. 29 that Canada’s air carriers had agreed to suspend services to sunny destinations. Flights to tropical locations, like Mexico, are being cancelled by Air Canada, West Jet, Sun Wing and

Livestock, News

Meat industry’s 2020 performance ‘phenomenal’: analyst

Kevin Grier lauded the tremendous effort from meat plant workers, management to safely bring packers back online after pandemic shutdowns

By Geralyn Wichers February 4, 2021

Meat plant closures in the early days of the pandemic were hard to wrap his brain around, said analyst Kevin Grier. He recalled the moment he heard Cargill’s beef-processing plant in High River, Alberta had gone down to one shift. “I literally could not believe it because of the ramifications,” Grier said. “Shortly after it

Crops

Manitoba crop conference recovers allegedly phished funds

Court order frees event organizers' money from frozen account

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 4, 2021

The organizers of one of the last big Prairie farm events held before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have recovered funds temporarily lost to an alleged phishing scam. The CropConnect Conference — an annual crop production and farm management conference co-organized by Manitoba grain, oilseed and pulse grower groups — has received back almost

Daily Network News

Feed grain weekly: Barley bids firm in early February

Carney wins admiration globally but struggles to lower food costs at home

CBOT Weekly: Additional soybean purchases strengthen U.S. soy

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