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Trading Refocuses On Market Fundamentals

March 31, 2011

Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada plat form chopped around within a narrow range during the week ended March 25, but the bias was to the upside in the end. The market took a much-needed breather after seeing some volatile price swings over the past month. With consolidation the order of the day,

Cereals, Grain Markets

“Great Grain Robbery” Law Reveals Big U.S. Sales

By Reuters March 31, 2011

A1973 U.S. law requiring grain traders to promptly report export sales last week shed light on a mammoth corn sale believed to be destined for China. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced last Friday the sale of 1.25 million tonnes of corn worth $350 million to an unknown destination, which traders believe is China. The law

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Mar. 24, 2011

By Reuters March 24, 2011

Farmer to Farmer:The Grain Growers of Canada has donated $1,000 to help Japanese farmers cope with the after-effects of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. “Farmers in Canada have a long history of helping their neighbours in times of trouble and in this case our neighbours are global,” said executive director Richard Phillips, noting Japan

Cereals, Opinion

Record-High Food Prices? Or Just Better Than Record Lows?

By Terry Boehm March 24, 2011

Reporters and politicians are making frequent references to high food prices – some going so far as to suggest prices are nearing record levels. But for the farmers and peasants who produce the world’s food, prices are nowhere near record highs. In fact, what is currently happening to corn, beans, rice, or wheat prices would

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Risk-Averse Speculators Keep Eye On Libya, Japan

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 24, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts saw some very choppy activity during the week ended March 18, hitting their lowest levels in months at one point before recovering to end the week with modest gains. News out of Japan dominated the headlines in all of the global financial and commodity markets, and canola was no exception.

Crops

Syngenta To Go Ahead With Ethanol-Specific Corn

By Carey Gillam March 24, 2011

Amonth after receivi ng regulatory approva l , Swiss agricultural company Syngenta is starting to sign up U.S. farmers to grow its new biotech corn seed aimed at ethanol production, but expects to enrol fewer than 20,000 acres in a contracted growing arrangement this spring, a top company executive said Mar. 16. Syngenta is meeting

Crops, Oilseeds

Volunteer Corn Reduces Yield In Corn And Soybean Crops

March 24, 2011

Ohio’s Purdue University Extension Service reports that volunteer corn is causing major yield reductions to both corn and soybean crops. With 70 per cent of Indiana’s annual corn crop resistant to glyphosate, volunteer corn has become increasingly difficult to control. “We’re rotating Roundup Ready corn with our soybean crop, which is typically 95 per cent

Cereals, Crops, Poultry

U.S. Makes Biggest Canada Feed Wheat Buy In Decade

By Rod Nickel March 24, 2011

Canadian feed wheat is flowing into the southeastern United States in the largest quantities for more than a decade, highlighting tight U.S. corn supplies and a surplus of feed wheat in Canada, several trade sources said March 10. Wilmington Bulk LLC, a consortium of North Carolina poultry and swine producers including Smithfield Foods, has bought

News, Oilseeds

Ag Canada Lower Sending Stocks Forecast

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 24, 2011

Ending stocks of the major grains and oilseeds in Canada will likely be down from earlier estimates, according to the latest supply-demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division released March 15. Ending stocks of the eight major grains and oilseeds for the 2011-12 crop year are now estimated at 8.860 million tonnes.

Cereals, Crops, News

Facing Climate Threat, Crop Gene Sharing Evermore Urgent

By David Fogarty March 24, 2011

Nations need to speed up the sharing of genetic material from crops if the world is to have any chance of feeding itself in a future with more extreme droughts, floods and storms, a senior UN official said. Scientists say new varieties of wheat, rice, corn and other staples will be needed to cope with

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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