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Opinion: Trump’s butcher shop

By Alan Guebert June 7, 2017

Donald Trump may want to “Make America Great Again” but his just-proposed 2018 budget contains no plans to make rural America great again. In fact, according to the Trump administration’s budget blueprint, American farmers, ranchers, and down-on-their-luck citizens must achieve greatness with trillions less so it and Congress can bestow a trillion-dollar tax cut on

Livestock Markets, Markets

Short week stays quiet as most major marketings done

USDA’s latest Cattle on Feed numbers will be bearish

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 1, 2017

The Victoria Day long weekend limited activity at Manitoba’s cattle auction yards during the week ended May 26, but the market was steady for the animals that still moved. “I didn’t see any change from the previous week. Everything was fully steady on the feeder cattle,” said Robin Hill of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden.

Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Comment

Sonny’s big adventure

The putative U.S. agriculture secretary has a tall order ahead of him to boost trade

By Alan Guebert May 9, 2017

Those Wisconsin dairy cows at the centre of another trade kettle now boiling between the United States and Canada, a friend suggests, aren’t really black and white Holsteins. They’re tiny, yellow canaries, he opines, and their tweets — not President Donald J. Trump’s — are a warning that America’s reign as the world’s ag export

Soybeans are starting to grow quickly outside the traditional production zone in the Red River Valley and the most recent StatsCan report reflects this.

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

StatsCan sees higher corn and soy acres in Manitoba

Statistics Canada’s seeding intentions report confirms, weather willing,  there could be a 36 per cent jump in soy acres

By Shannon VanRaes May 5, 2017

Get ready to see more soybeans zipping by your truck window during trips to town this summer. According to Statistics Canada’s first Principal Field Crops report of the season, which looks at seeding intentions for the coming season, Manitoba’s soybean acres are expected to jump 34.6 per cent in 2017. Of the seven million soybean

Crops, News

Slow start to U.S. corn planting may lead to tug of war with soy

Although technology allows farmers to plant faster than ever before, weather can still hinder progress

By Karen Braun May 2, 2017

U.S. farmers are off to a slow start on corn plantings and even though it is still very early in the 2017 season, the numbers may already imply that total corn acres could be less than the 89.996 million that the market currently expects. The U.S. Department of Agriculture placed corn-planting progress at six per

Comment/Feedback, Opinion

There goes the neighbourhood

By Alan Guebert April 19, 2017

Farmers and ranchers pride themselves on neighbourliness, and rightly so. Rare is the season, after all, when the local newspaper or radio station doesn’t carry a lump-in-the-throat story explaining how neighbours of an ill or injured member of a farm or ranch family gathered for a day or two to do a month or two’s

Grain Markets, Markets, Pulse markets

Canola remains rangebound as new-crop outlook fuzzy

Charts suggest U.S. soybeans are still pointed lower

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 13, 2017

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts fell to their lowest levels in more than six months on April 3, but bounced off those lows and were higher overall by the close on April 7. A bearish reaction to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prospective plantings and quarterly stocks reports sent soybeans in a tailspin lower, and

Cereals, Comment/Feedback

India is the wild card in global wheat production and consumption

Some estimates are calling for an increase of 15 per cent, to 100 million tonnes for the looming harvest

By Karen Braun March 20, 2017

India will be the first major wheat-growing country to harvest the 2017-18 crop, and most of its wheat will be cut by the time the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolls out its first production estimate in May. Despite the early glimpse this should provide to the wheat market, the Indian government’s data could actually downplay

Crops, News

Scientists studying how to make poorer soils perform better

The work is in response to a growing problem of the loss of prime farmland to urbanization

By Alex Binkley March 7, 2017

As Canada steadily loses top-quality farmland to urban sprawl, Agriculture Canada scientists are studying ways to make poorer soils perform better in co-operation with foreign researchers. Brian Gray, assistant deputy minister for science and technology, told the Senate agriculture committee the work will help feed an expected global population of 9.5 billion in 2050. “We’re

Comment, Crops

Soybean bulls may not find a friend in U.S. crush

The numbers suggest crushers are beginning to oversupply the meal market

By Karen Braun March 7, 2017

The United States has crushed an unprecedented amount of soybeans since the harvest began last fall, but there have not been as many buyers as processors had hoped for, and this could end up burdensome on domestic soybean supply. Data released by the National Oilseed Processors Association Feb. 15 showed that its members crushed 160.621

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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