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Western Canadian flaxseed prices edge higher

By Adam Johnston March 14, 2012

Western Canadian flaxseed cash bids have advanced in the past month, with fresh export demand along with tight supply concerns contributing to the firmness, said an industry participant. “The Chinese market has really helped out western Canadian flax prices this year,” said Chuck Penner, an analyst with Left Field Commodity Research in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Livestock briefs, March 8, 2012

March 14, 2012

Canadian beef and hog herds finally on the rise reuters / Canada’s herds of cattle and hogs rose at Jan. 1, turning around a long-term downsizing trend on the strength of high prices. Cattle ranchers benefited from prices rising throughout 2011, while hog prices reached a seven-year high in the second half of the year,

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Canola cools off as Canada’s crushers curb demand

By Dwayne Klassen March 14, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed to hold on to small gains during the week ended March 2. Fresh export demand from Mexico, along with some pretty good chart-based speculative demand, facilitated the upward price action. Concerns about dry conditions heading into spring seeding on the Prairies helped to influence some

Crops, News, Oilseeds, Weather

Overdrying canola can be a costly mistake

By Daniel Winters March 14, 2012

Air can dry grain, or it can make it wetter. That’s because grain automatically reaches equilibrium with the ambient relative humidity as it is drawn into the bin via fans. Theoretically, this fact could be used to boost profits by adding tonnage via moisture content until the grain reaches the optimum nine to 10 per

Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

THE ASIAN MARKET: Opportunities and risks

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

It could be a great time to be a North American hog producer, then again, it might not be. Either way grain farmers win, according to this year’s Kraft Lecturer. Asia needs a lot more meat. It’s cheaper to produce pork in North America, so North American pork exports should, in theory, increase, according to

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

USDA favours corn with 2012 crop insurance price guarantees

March 14, 2012

Chicago / Reuters / Crop insurance price guarantees for 2012 should encourage U.S. farmers to plant corn over soybeans, according to analysts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture set the guarantees, which act as the floor price for crop insurance policies, at $5.68 per bushel for corn and $12.55 a bushel for soybeans across most of

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Don’t put wet canola in bags, ag researcher advises

By Daniel Winters March 14, 2012

Grain bags have a lot of attractive features for farmers. But are they good for storing canola? The answer is both yes and no, says Digvir Jayas, a University of Manitoba professor. “They market these bags as sealed, air tight, but our research shows that they are not as air tight as the companies would

News, Opinion

Happy hogs and right smart marketing

By Alan Guebert March 14, 2012

For over 20 years Jackie served as the main field hand on the big dairy farm of my youth. He possessed a hired man’s respect for talk; he talked only when talked to and then, most times, in a collection of southern Illinois’ phrases that carried more code than context. For example, once my father

Country Crossroads, News

Spice up your menus

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 14, 2012

Spices have been used for thousands of years to enhance the flavour of foods, and range from mild to hot and spicy. In earlier times, spices sometimes were used to mask the undesirable flavour of meat and other foods that were past their prime. Much of the early exploration of the world was prompted by

Beef cattle, Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: March 8, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson March 14, 2012

I grin each time I spot this recipe in community cookbooks, new or old. It is for Stay-A-Bed-Stew. Obviously, it’s an all-time favourite — but why? Stay-A-Bed-Stew is from The I Hate to Cook Book published by Peg Bracken in 1960. Bracken was an American advertising copywriter and a working mother in the late 1950s,

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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