Strong harvests in Western Canada clash with low grain prices, trade war-driven market uncertainty and high input costs. What strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop?
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Grain marketing for hard economic times
Manitoba farms face tight profit opportunities this year; what strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop to best financial effect?
Bayer’s crop marketing, crop production platforms in sync
FieldView, Combyne platforms now integrated
Combyne, the made-in-Canada grain marketing platform Bayer bought earlier this year, is now fully on speaking terms with the company’s Climate FieldView precision ag platform. Bayer on Oct. 30 announced integration of the two platforms, which it said will allow grain farmers in Canada and the U.S. to connect their marketing data in Combyne and
Viterra to exit Russian grain trade
The company's team in Russia to create new grain exporter
London | Reuters — Global grain trader Viterra’s management team in Russia plans to create an independent Russian grain exporter once the company ceases export activities in the country, the head of its Russian office, Nikolai Demyanov, told Reuters on Thursday. Viterra — whose owners include mining and trading giant Glencore and the investment management
Dreyfus to step up spending after earnings boost
'Complementary' acquisitions envisioned
Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) could nearly double annual investments in the coming years as rising profits help it pursue expansion in its traditional crop trading and newer food-ingredient activities, its CEO told Reuters. The group on Wednesday reported a jump in annual net profit to $1 billion, joining other global crop
Shipping containers could open new doors to international grain trade
Web portal poised to facilitate direct sales to overseas markets
The Canadian grain shipping industry needs a paradigm shift, according to one grain transportation expert. Adil Cubukgil launched the Prairie Grain Portal (prairiegrainportal.com) in September 2021 to facilitate direct sales to overseas markets and add weight to the notion that Canada’s grain sector would benefit by increasing the portion of containerized grain shipments leaving its
Bunge to sell oilseed processing business in Russia
Grain firms scaling back Russian business
Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Bunge said Monday it has agreed to sell its oilseed processing business in Russia to Karen Vanetsyan, the controlling shareholder of Exoil Group. The sale includes the sunflower processing plant in Voronezh. Bunge and its rivals ADM, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — part of the so-called ABCD quartet of global
How to market grain in our current environment
A conversation from the Between The Rows podcast can give you some insight
Looking for some current insights into marketing your grain? Here’s a transcript of a recent discussion between journalist Ed White and myself on Between The Rows the podcast of Glacier FarmMedia. I think it can give you some good information for the coming year. Ed White: 2021 has been a great year for crop prices.
More market transparency needed
Grain act reviews trigger farmer calls for more grain sales data collection
Western grain farmers need more timely information about grain sales and exports to improve market transparency and returns to farmers, the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) says in its submission on changes to the Canada Grain Act and Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). The Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan (APAS) and the National Farmers Union (NFU)
FBN cuts yearly membership fee to zero
Ag e-commerce firm offers free accounts to farmers
E-marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) has disposed of the annual membership fee that allowed members access to its various buying groups and services. California-based FBN, which has operated in the U.S. since 2014 and expanded to Canada in 2017, announced Tuesday (Sept. 15) its farmer members may now have “access to a select range of
Editorial: Pulling it together
It’s been a long road towards merger for Manitoba commodity groups. Over the past three years groups have opted in and out of the process and at times it’s seemed like little or nothing was happening. But in truth that’s just been the long, slow process of trying to bring independent entities together into one
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
