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FCC to offer breaks on loans in Sask., Alta.

Customers of Farm Credit Canada in parched areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan may be able to get breaks on their outstanding loan payments. FCC on Monday announced it would work with affected customers on “solutions for their operation(s)” such as deferral of principal payments and/or otherwise amending their loan payment schedules. The offer applies to

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: After 70 years, farming still puts a spring in his step

Cartwright farmer Jack Pawich says some things about farming never change

By Allan Dawson June 18, 2015

How does a southern Manitoba farmer end up pumping gas for Elvis Presley? Serendipity. But it was love of farming and a lot of hard work rather than luck that resulted in the 90-year-old farmer sowing his 70th crop this spring on the farm he was raised on, now operated by his son Randy and

Country Crossroads

Educating the country’s youngest consumers

Elementary schools across the country took part in Canadian  Agriculture Literacy Week in the first week of March

By Jennifer Paige March 17, 2015

Bright eyes, eager hands and endless questions filled Sarah Burgess’s Grade 1 and 2 classroom last week as industry professional, Lyndsay Friesen stopped in. “I do enjoy sharing about agriculture, especially to an audience who is so interested and excited to understand where all these things come from,” said Friesen, who grew up on a

Any delays to seeding due to spring rain aren’t expected to be as prolonged as last year’s, Drew Lerner told farmers in Regina. (Leeann Minogue photo)

Crops, Markets

Minogue: Optimism reigns at FCC outlook meeting

By GFM Network News, Leeann Minogue January 29, 2015

Regina — Despite commodity prices down off recent highs, resurgent transportation problems and crop disease issues across the Prairies, farmers heard all good news at Farm Credit Canada’s Ag Outlook 2015 conference here Tuesday. “The sky’s not falling,” said J.P. Gervais, chief ag economist for Regina-based FCC. Actually, he said, things are pretty good. If

News, Oilseeds

Canola prices entering sideways trend

The old highs have become the new lows

By Shannon VanRaes December 22, 2014

Canola prices are tracking the overall trend towards lower commodity prices this year, but there is still room for some comfortable margins, a prominent market analyst says. Speaking at Farm Credit Canada’s Ag Outlook 2015 in Winnipeg, Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada said that while the canola markets aren’t good, they’re not really bad either.

Cereals, Crops

China still an important factor

Exports remain key to Canada’s commodity sector as prices fall back to earth

By Shannon VanRaes December 3, 2014

Profits on grains and oilseeds might be down, but it’s no reason to panic. Speaking at Farm Management Canada’s Agriculture Excellence conference in Winnipeg, Farm Credit Canada’s chief economist said the high prices of recent years were never destined to become the new normal. “The sky is not falling, it’s not falling at all,” J.P.

Hogs, Livestock

PED not sole factor in hog price increase

Even without PED hog prices would have been strong last year

By Shannon VanRaes December 2, 2014

No one wants to rejoice in their neighbours’ suffering — or at least no one admits to it — but the ongoing PED outbreak south of the border has undoubtably aided Canadian hog producers. Speaking at a Farm Management Canada’s Agriculture Excellence conference in Winnipeg, J.P. Gervais said that the continued presence of the porcine

News

Safety group told federal funds must be matched

By Lorraine Stevenson June 26, 2013

For the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association ‘growing forward’ means finding new funding partners to match government contributions. “The government has put out the challenge to CASA that if farm safety is important, they’re willing to support it, but other groups also have to be at the table,” said executive director Marcel Hacault. The association, which

Crops, Grain Markets

Fall in grain prices inevitable

By Allan Dawson April 18, 2013

Speakers at Canada Grains Council say too many farmers have forgotten that high prices eventually fall

Watch out! The five-year run of high grain prices is going to end — possibly sooner than later — and those producers who are in denial could be in for a painful reckoning, attendees at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting were warned. “There is a lot of optimism out there and a lot

Crops, News, Oilseeds

FCC honours five women leaders in agriculture

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 9, 2013

The Rosemary Davis Award recipients  receive an all-expense-paid trip to a Boston leadership conference

Winnipeg geneticist and professor, Silvie Cloutier is among five women to receive the 2013 Rosemary Davis award from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The award recognizes outstanding Canadian women for their leadership and commitment to the Canadian agriculture and agri-food industry. Cloutier’s research has been used in plant-breeding programs to protect crops from disease, improve production

Daily Network News

Grocery code of conduct takes full effect

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures surge as second screwworm case announced

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall on competition with Brazilian exports

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