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Cereals, Crops

Bumper Australian Crop To Strain Rail Links

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Australia’s biggest wheat harvest in nearly a decade threatens to strain a creaky rail network and delay grain shipments just as buyers look to the country to plug global supply gaps caused by a Russian export ban. The logjam, reminiscent of a scramble by exporters early in 2009 to fill orders immediately after the harvest
Cereals, Crops

Ancient Seeds In Mexico Fight Warming Effects

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More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming. Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought-and heat-resistant traits, such as
Cereals, News

Food Prices Seen Lower Than In 2007-08 – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Rising prices for a wide range of agricultural commodities are stirring fears of global food-driven inflation, but there should be no repeat of the crisis seen in 2007-08 unless governments start to panic. Analysts cite much higher global stocks of staples such as wheat and a more challenging economic environment as factors which should temper
Cereals, News

World Bank Urges Transparency In Foreign Farmland Deals – for Sep. 16, 2010

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The World Bank is urging greater transparency in land investment transactions to protect local land owners as the volume of foreign farmland investment in poor countries swells. Foreigners investing in agricultural land in developing countries should be open in their transactions and recognize the rights of existing owners to avoid weak governance, the World Bank
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

StatsCan Needs To Get It Right – for Sep. 9, 2010

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It’s rare to find a grain farmer with anything good to say about Statistics Canada. At best, the field crop production reports are viewed as a waste of time and money. At worst, the reports are viewed as a government plot to manipulate grain prices. For each of its reports, StatsCan surveys a pile of
Cereals, News

Cwb Exports Up, Prices Down – for Aug. 5, 2010

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and most farmers are hoping last year’s miraculous crop recovery happens again. “It is my hope for all farmers that somehow we have a repeat of last year’s harvest and in the end wind up with a much better result than we all expect,” CWB chair Allen Oberg told reporters
Cereals, Opinion

Maintaining Trade Is Ongoing Battle – for Aug. 5, 2010

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As everyone knows, agriculture is at the mercy of the weather. Agriculture is also at the mercy of trade disruptions. Saskatchewan is the world’s largest exporter of canaryseed and a trade issue has emerged with Mexico, our largest customer. Mexican officials have been complaining about the level of wild buckwheat seeds within canaryseed shipments. Back
Hogs, Livestock

Canada’s Hog Herd Still Shrinking

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The number of hogs in Canada has been on a steady decline over the past five years with no end in sight, industry officials say. “Given the current status of the hog industry in Canada, there does not appear to be an expansion on the horizon that would see an increase in hog output,” Martin
Hogs, Livestock

Canadian Pork Product Exports Expected To Decline

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The amount of pork products exported from Canada is expected to decline come calendar year 2011, according to an official with the Canadian Pork Council, or CPC. “We’ve had about four or five shocks to our industry in the last five years, that includes the high Canadian dollar, for a while high feed prices due
Cereals, Livestock

FAO Sees Bigger 2010 Grain Crops, Price Pressure

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World cereals output is expected to rise this year to near-record highs, swelling overall supplies and putting pressure on already weakened prices, the UN’s food agency said June 3. The global wheat output is forecast to fall for the third consecutive year, but at 676.5 million tonnes it would still be close to 2008 record

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