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China books record weekly U.S. beef purchases: USDA

By Karl Plume September 22, 2020

Reuters – China made its largest weekly U.S. beef purchases on record for the week ending August 21, followed by its biggest U.S. corn deals in almost a month the next week, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. The USDA, in its weekly export sales report, said China bought a net 3,315 tonnes of

Markets

China buys at least eight cargoes of U.S. soybeans

By Karl Plume September 21, 2020

Reuters – Chinese state-owned firms bought at least eight bulk shipments of U.S. soybeans recently, or at least 480,000 tonnes, for shipment in December and January, two U.S. traders familiar with the deals said. The bulk of the sales were for shipment from Pacific Northwest ports, with the remainder due to ship from U.S. Gulf

News, Poultry

China suspends poultry imports from second U.S. plant over COVID-19

By Tom Polansek September 18, 2020

Reuters – China has suspended imports from an OK Foods poultry plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, because of coronavirus cases among workers, the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council said Sept. 15. China, the world’s top meat importer, has blocked products from some plants in foreign countries as part of an all-out effort to control

Kraft’s Canadian grated cheese lines are among the businesses going to Lactalis for US$3.2 billion. (KraftWhatsCooking.ca)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Kraft Heinz to sell several cheese businesses to Lactalis

Canadian grated cheese lines among assets going for US$3.2 billion

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 16, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Kraft Heinz said on Tuesday that it will sell several of its cheese businesses to a U.S. affiliate of France’s Groupe Lactalis for US$3.2 billion. After weak sales results and several billion-dollar writedowns over the past two years, there has been market speculation about which categories Kraft Heinz will offload from

Dairy producers say they’re still waiting for clarity on trade compensation — and their future.

Dairy cattle, News

Trade deals darken future, Manitoba dairy farmers say

The feds are in a bad habit of using dairy as a bargaining chip and slow to pay for damages

By Geralyn Wichers August 4, 2020

Market share lost to foreign imports may make dairy farming less viable for the next generation, says David Wiens, chair of Dairy Farmers of Manitoba (DFM). “It makes it more difficult to bring in the youngest generation when the industry has been starved in the way of growth,” Wiens told the Co-operator. The latest loss

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: The good and bad between the U.S., China

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 22, 2020

MarketsFarm — The current relationship between the United States and China has continued to be rather chaotic, according to Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. at Fort McHenry, Ill. Despite the two countries’ diplomatic row, China has sharply picked up its purchases of U.S. soybeans. Georgy pointed to the 715,000 tonnes purchased by China on

Canadians should resurrect the so-called “Third option” first proposed in 1972.

Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Canada needs to rethink U.S. relationship

By D.C. Fraser July 20, 2020

Recent events should force Canadians to rethink our country’s relationship with the U.S. Canada will always be a mouse in bed with the elephant, but we need to realize the elephant is sick. American leadership is deeply corrupted, with President Donald Trump making clear he values economic and personal gain over human life. He has

A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Non-essential travel limits extended at U.S. borders with Canada, Mexico

By GFM Network News July 16, 2020

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — Restrictions on non-essential travel at U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico will be extended through Aug. 21, Canada and the United States announced Thursday. “Canada and the United States have agreed to extend the current border measures by one month until Aug. 21, and we’re going to keep working closely

File photo of Cong Peiwu, China’s ambassador to Canada, speaking at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Nov. 22, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Markets

U.S. is ‘trouble maker’ in China-Canada relationship, envoy says

No word on whether China would retaliate against Canada over latest court decision

By GFM Network News June 12, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — The United States is using the case of a senior Chinese telecoms executive who was arrested in Vancouver on a U.S. warrant 18 months ago to create friction between China and Canada, China’s envoy to Canada said on Thursday. “The U.S. has been taking advantage of Canada, and the U.S. is

Emergence in an Ontario soybean field. (File photo by John Greig)

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Prices stable, crops looking good

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 4, 2020

MarketsFarm — Over the last few weeks, soybean and corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) have stabilized, according to Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodities at Barrington, Ill. “And that’s a good thing. Where this goes from here is still anybody’s guess,” he said. Noting that the crops in the United States are

Daily Network News

Canadian hog sector set for strong margins in 2026 says FCC

Argentina’s beef export revenue reaches record in 2025

Australian canola down but not out of China after Xi’s deal with Canada

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China books record weekly U.S. beef purchases: USDA

China buys at least eight cargoes of U.S. soybeans

China suspends poultry imports from second U.S. plant over COVID-19

Kraft Heinz to sell several cheese businesses to Lactalis

Trade deals darken future, Manitoba dairy farmers say

CBOT weekly outlook: The good and bad between the U.S., China

Opinion: Canada needs to rethink U.S. relationship

Non-essential travel limits extended at U.S. borders with Canada, Mexico

U.S. is ‘trouble maker’ in China-Canada relationship, envoy says

CBOT weekly outlook: Prices stable, crops looking good

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