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Analysts expect fewer pigs and higher prices next year

By Theopolis Waters November 29, 2012

Pork stocks in U.S. warehouses in September soared to a record high for that month, a sign the rush to market hogs this summer due to high feed costs may mean fewer hogs and less pork next year. The bulk of the price gains could come in the second half of next year, analysts said.

Cereals, Opinion

The reason farmers sought market power back then

November 29, 2012

The following contains excerpts from comments to the recent Fields on Wheels conference by Paul Earl, who has a PhD in history and is acting director of the University of Manitoba’s Transport Institute. Earl spent many years working for United Grain Growers and the Western Canadian Grain Growers Association lobbying the federal government to end

Cereals, Crops, News

Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Two vocal advocates for deregulating Western Canada’s wheat marketing are now suggesting farmers need a strong voice and new regulations to protect them from the open market. While free enterprise is the best economic system, it only works when transactions are voluntary and there is true competition, Paul Earl, a former lobbyist against the Canadian

Cereals, Crops, News

Costly U.S. wheat has livestock producers seeking other feeds

By Mark Weinraub November 29, 2012

Reuters / U.S. livestock producers are trying to cut the amount of wheat they plan to use in their feed rations as prices have rallied to their highest level against corn in 21 months. But supplies of feed substitutes are scarce, analysts said. “We do not have a lot of corn out here to compensate for

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Chicago’s soybean complex pulls canola downward

By Dwayne Klassen November 29, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform suffered some major downward price action during the week ended Nov. 16, with the sharp losses in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex and favourable weather for the planting and development of soybean crops in Brazil and Argentina tied to the declines. The unloading of

Cereals, News

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

By James Mackenzie November 29, 2012

Reuters / Food prices have eased slightly but this year’s droughts in key producer regions from the Black Sea to the U.S. Corn Belt are keeping cereal stocks at low levels, says a new report from the United Nations’ food agency. “This season’s world cereal supply-and-demand balance is proving much tighter than in 2011-12 with

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

By Catherine Horn November 29, 2012

Reuters / Borsa Italiana is set to launch Europe’s first futures market for durum wheat in November to cater to demand from the continent’s Italian-led pasta makers, but building sufficient trading volumes will be a challenge, traders say. Grain futures generally take a long time to attract a large trading base, and the minimal volumes

Cereals, Crops, News

Western grain system humming so far this crop year

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system performed above average during the first 13 weeks of the new crop year, but it’s too soon to tell if there’s a connection with ending of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly, according to Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, the firm hired by the federal government to monitor system performance.

News

Canada losing ground as food exporter

By Alex Binkley November 28, 2012

Despite being an agricultural powerhouse, Canada is losing ground as a supplier of food products to the rest of the world, says a new report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. Last year Canada imported $6.3 billion more food products and beverages than it exported — and the deficit has grown steadily since 2004 when

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Beef industry still seeking approval to irradiate ground beef

By Lorraine Stevenson November 21, 2012

Canadian cattle producers sought Health Canada approval to irradiate  ground beef more than 10 years ago. They are still waiting.

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association once thought it would be just a matter of time before Canadian food companies would get the green light to start irradiating ground beef. That was a decade ago, when the CCA submitted a petition to Health Canada seeking regulatory approval for use of irradiation as another tool to reduce pathogens

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

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Analysts expect fewer pigs and higher prices next year

The reason farmers sought market power back then

Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

Costly U.S. wheat has livestock producers seeking other feeds

Chicago’s soybean complex pulls canola downward

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

Western grain system humming so far this crop year

Canada losing ground as food exporter

Beef industry still seeking approval to irradiate ground beef

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