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U.S. production prospects drag on canola values

U.S. wheat’s corrective bounce is unlikely to stick

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 22, 2015

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts bounced up and down within a relatively narrow range during the week ended May 14, but finished right around where they started as the uncertainty of this year’s North American crop kept some caution in the market. After waiting for a spring rally that never came, attention must now turn

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola trade seen remaining choppy until seeding done

U.S. corn, soy and wheat will keep trading on the weather

By Terryn Shiells May 15, 2015

The ICE Futures Canada canola market started off the week ending May 8 with a bang, seeing gains of nearly C$10 per tonne on Monday (May 4). But that’s where the excitement ended. The following days were all pretty uneventful, with quiet activity that led to prices chopping around within a fairly narrow range. Some

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola, soy poised to become ‘weather’ markets

The U.S. avian flu outbreak could cut feed demand

By Terryn Shiells May 7, 2015

The ICE Futures Canada canola market had an up-and-down week, with very quiet activity some days. Overall, prices were down compared to the week prior due to weakness in outside oilseed markets. Strength seen in the Canadian currency earlier in the week was also a bearish force for canola, though it started to lose some

Livestock

U.S. ag secretary orders update of agency’s animal welfare research strategy

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter January 25, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed agency staff to create and deliver an updated animal welfare strategy plan within 60 days, according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters. The emailed memo from Chavonda Jacobs-Young, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was sent to all Animal

Livestock, National news

U.S. appeals latest WTO ruling on COOL

Retaliatory tariffs are now delayed

By Dave Bedard December 5, 2014

Canada will have to wait up to three more months before it can impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods over Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat from imported livestock. The U.S. government filed a notice of appeal Nov. 28 against the latest ruling by a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel, which last

Forages, Opinion

Editorial: The third option

Trials have shown adding a perennial forage to your crop rotation can be effective weed control

By Laura Rance-Unger August 11, 2014

At a time when soil erosion is recognized as one of the biggest threats to the world’s ability to continue feeding itself, it’s disturbing to see weed scientists advising tillage to address invading “superweeds.” There is no question that addressing the lengthening list of weeds that have developed resistance to glyphosate must be a top

Genetic tweaking caused a fertility problem in Ross roosters, which sire 25 per cent of the commercial broiler flock in theU.S.and virtually all of Canada’s.

Livestock, Poultry

Infertile roosters increase shortage in U.S. chicken supplies

Canadian hatcheries depend on U.S. imports but have been unaffected to date

By Ron Friesen July 21, 2014

A genetic problem in a key breed of U.S. rooster could affect Canada’s broiler chicken industry, which imports nearly all its parent breeding stock from south of the border. The U.S. is already experiencing a shortage of breeder birds and the genetic issue could make supplies even tighter, American officials say. If that happens, it

Hogs, Livestock

USDA sees pig virus limiting hog supply; cattle prices up

Southern Plains drought also limiting  herd expansion

March 3, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Feb. 20 that the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) through the U.S. hog herd will “sharply limit” the supply of hogs compared to earlier expectations. “Mortality rates due to PEDv have been highest among young piglets which have curtailed the growth in the number of pigs per

Crops

U.S. to launch ‘climate hubs’ to help farmers face climate change

Climate hubs will act as information centres to help farmers handle risks

By Jeff Mason February 21, 2014

President Barack Obama’s administration is setting up seven “climate hubs” to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said. The hubs will act as information centres and aim to help farmers and ranchers handle risks, including fires, pests, floods and droughts, that

Crops

Irish cattle chow down on Canadian corn

Three-quarters of corn exports this year have headed for Ireland

February 12, 2014

Canada’s bountiful corn harvest is flowing across the Atlantic into feed rations for Ireland’s cattle herd, even as exporters struggle to move other crops through the bottlenecked Canadian transportation system. Canada, which was a net corn importer until recent years, reaped a record 14.2-million-tonne corn crop in 2013. Most of the crop stays where it

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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