Livestock Sector Recovery Driven By Demand

The return of consumer confidence will be the key driver behind recovery in the livestock sector, an economist with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) says. “Tough times across the livestock sector can get better this year, but it will take demand, demand, demand,” Scott Brown told University of Missouri Extension livestock specialists.

Recession Slows Cattle Industry Recovery

“Until we see economic recovery, it’s going to be a challenge.” – SCOTT MCKINNON, CANFAX Canada’s long-suffering cattle producers, still smarting after BSE, may have to wait a little longer to start making money again. Cow-calf producers could start to see profitable margins by late fall. Feedlot operators may, too, depending on feed costs, said


Things To Watch For In 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg generally posted small losses over the Christmas and New Year’s break. Weakness in the U. S. soy markets and volatility in the Canadian dollar

Big Oats, Flax Supply Pressure Markets

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 18 mixed, with canola lower. Canola was pressured down by the advancing harvest, the firm Canadian dollar, bearish technical signals and ideas the canola

Bumper U. S. Harvest Won’t Help Livestock

U. S. farmers are gearing up to harvest huge corn and soybean crops in the Midwest grain belt, but the bumper crops will not bring down the costs of food items made from them. Traditionally, livestock and dairy producers increase production when feed costs decrease. But banks may be reluctant to fund expansion efforts for


Renewed Food Inflation Risk As Funds Eye Edible Oils

Less than two years after a surge in global food prices caused panic and riots around the world, investors are starting to return to vegetable oil markets and raising the spectre of renewed food price inflation. Billions of dollars change hands annually in the markets for palm, soybean and other vegetable oils, which are used

Acres And Weather Becoming Market Focus

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l seed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended June 19 mixed, with canola lower. Canola was pressured down by a big slide in the Chicago soy complex and talk that China

Canola Going To Be Strong Through 2009-10

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended May 22 mixed, with canola mixed and barley higher. Canola was pressured down in the old crop by a slowing pace to demand, with both


Canola Hits Eight-Month High, Supplies Tighten

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended May 8 higher, with old-crop canola rising to its highest level in eight months. Export demand, friendly technical signals and speculative buying all combined to

Grain Sector Better Off Than Many During World Recession

“It’s really an exciting time for agriculture and producers. If corn gets too cheap ethanol will bring it back and wheat and soybeans will follow corn.” – KENDELL KEITH Recession or not, people still have to eat and that bodes well for the world’s grain sector, three panelists told the Canada Grain Council’s 40th annual