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JBS gears up for U.S. and Brazil expansions

Brazilian meat giant reiterates plans following strong Q3 results

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Food processor JBS SA reiterated plans to grow production capacity in Brazil and in the United States after posting strong third quarter results, executives said in a conference call to discuss earnings on Thursday. CEO Gilberto Tomazoni said 12 of the company’s plants in Brazil were being expanded, as JBS

Crops, Markets

Louis Dreyfus to gain first outside investor

Abu Dhabi's ADQ fund to acquire indirect 45 per cent stake

By GFM Network News, Gus Trompiz November 11, 2020

Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) has agreed to sell a 45 per cent stake to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, the companies said on Wednesday, the first outside investment in the family-owned commodity merchant’s 169-year-old history. The deal comes after a search by chairwoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus for an investor to relieve debt built up

Crops

Bunge buys into canola, pea protein maker Merit

Agribusiness giant takes quarter stake in processor

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 28, 2020

One of the world’s biggest grain companies is getting in on a processing facility under construction in Winnipeg to extract plant-based proteins from canola and peas. Winnipeg-based Merit Functional Foods announced Thursday it has received a $30 million “capital investment” from Bunge, giving the U.S. grain firm a “minority interest” worth 25 per cent. Burcon

Crops

Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit

New unit's potential budget not yet discussed publicly

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 18, 2020

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Co. has launched a venture capital program to invest in food and farming firms while also announcing a change of head for its innovation business. “Over the coming months, we will invest in early-stage companies with the potential to transform the food and agriculture industries,” CEO

Futures markets, Markets

The stocks-to-use ratio is an important but not perfect market metric

By David Derwin March 3, 2020

There are a lot of ways to analyze the fundamental situation of grain markets. You can look at production figures, export numbers, inventories, farmer deliveries as well as elevators supplies. Recently, I’ve heard a lot about stocks-to-use ratio as a fundamental gauge of supply and demand. So naturally, I ask myself: “What kind of historical

Columns, Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

By Gord Gilmour September 6, 2019

A recent agriculture report from the Royal Bank of Canada paints a picture of a sector with big opportunities and big challenges. Farmer 4.0: How the coming skills revolution can transform agriculture is all-in on the concept of farms thriving in the digital age. It paints a picture of autonomous equipment, sensor-driven agronomy and other

Markets

Ag sector growth will take investments in skills, tech now: RBC

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff August 28, 2019

One of Canada’s big six banks bets the agriculture sector’s gross domestic product could rise by nearly 60 per cent over the next decade if it were to have enough people, capital and access to new technology where ag lives. A report released by RBC on Tuesday titled “Farmer 4.0” estimates Canadian ag GDP could

Crops, Markets

On the front lines: Trade war sinks North Dakota soy growers

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume August 22, 2019

Colfax, N.D. | Reuters — North Dakota bet bigger on Chinese soybean demand than any other U.S. state. The industry here — on the far northwestern edge of the U.S. farm belt, close to Pacific ports — spent millions on grain storage and rail-loading infrastructure while boosting plantings by five-fold in 20 years. Now, as

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans lower on trade row

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, P.J. Huffstutter June 25, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell about two per cent on Monday on generally favourable Midwest crop weather and worries about trade with China, the world’s biggest soy importer, traders said. Corn and wheat futures also declined. July soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade settled down 20 cents at $8.74-1/2 per

Crops

New investment leads to new chief at Morris

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 7, 2017

A major cash infusion from a pair of Calgary private investment firms, among others, has put new hands at the helm of farm equipment maker Morris Industries. Morris on Tuesday announced its president, Ben Voss — a Saskatoon engineer and farmer, and one of the players in the new investment group — has also been

Prairie cash wheat: Choppy U.S. futures lead to mixed bids

No BRM breakthrough reached at ministers’ meeting

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as South American crops struggle

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Prairie cash wheat: Choppy U.S. futures lead to mixed bids

No BRM breakthrough reached at ministers’ meeting

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as South American crops struggle

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JBS gears up for U.S. and Brazil expansions

Louis Dreyfus to gain first outside investor

Bunge buys into canola, pea protein maker Merit

Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit

The stocks-to-use ratio is an important but not perfect market metric

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

Ag sector growth will take investments in skills, tech now: RBC

On the front lines: Trade war sinks North Dakota soy growers

U.S. grains: Soybeans lower on trade row

New investment leads to new chief at Morris

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