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Chicago Soybeans Put Pressure On Winnipeg Canola

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column Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform lost ground during the week ended Nov. 11. Much of the price weakness was associated with the downward price action experienced in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex and with the unsettled ongoing macroeconomic picture. Keeping a firm floor under canola was steady
News, Oilseeds

China Tops Canada As Top U.S. Farm Export Market

brief washington /reuters China, the world s largest importer of cotton and soybeans, has topped Canada to become the No. 1 market for U.S. farm exports for the first time, the Agriculture Department said Nov. 10. U.S. exporters sold $20 billion in agricultural products to China during the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30,
Hogs, Livestock

Simple Changes Can Reduce Hog Transport Losses

Bernie Peet Peet on Pigs Losses of pigs between the farm and the point of slaughter can be reduced significantly by relatively simple changes to facilities and handling, according to two speakers at the recent Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop. Dr. Jennifer Brown from the Prairie Swine Centre described an observational study of 10 commercial
Hogs, Livestock

Better Times Ahead For Hog Producers?

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So far this year, Canadian producers have had their best period of profitability in the last five years, a relief for those who survived a four-year period of unprecedented hardship, with low hog prices and high feed costs. With market hogs fetching up to $200 a head and sometimes more during the summer, the only
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Traders Struggle To Get A Handle On Stocks

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Grain traders were moaning recently about how the latest grain stocks report surprised the corn market with higher-than-anticipated corn inventories. Some even suggested that perhaps the USDA misreported how much grain was stored privately by farmers. But as a proportion of total on-farm storage capacity, U.S. corn farmers actually stored the lowest amount of their
Crops

Booming Ethanol Biz Alters Corn Use Patterns

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U. S . A g r i c u l t u r e Department officials faced criticism over recent forecasts that have roiled the grains market, saying that the explosive growth of the ethanol sector had upended traditional patterns. The robust growth of the ethanol sector in the last few years has altered the
Livestock, Oilseeds

Cargill Earnings Tumble

U.S. agribusiness and trading firm Cargill Inc. posted a steep drop in quarterly earnings Oct. 10, citing economic uncertainty and volatile commodity markets. Minneapolis-based Cargill, one of the world s largest privately held corporations, reported $236 million in earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended on Aug. 31, down 66 per cent from $693
Crops

USDA Faces Industry Grilling On Corn Stocks Data

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Grain traders were expected to pepper U.S. Department of Agriculture officials with questions on Monday this week about how they came up with surprising crop data that has prompted wild swings in futures prices. USDA is widely regarded as the world s best source of information on U.S. and global crop supplies. But over the
Hogs, Livestock

Hog Prices Good As Gold

REUTERS / Lean hogs posted the second-biggest gain year to date of the 19 commodities that comprise the Reuters-Jefferies CRB index. Hogs were up 13.3 per cent so far this year, lagging only gold, which gained 13.8 per cent. The December contract posted the biggest daily rise in six months Sept. 29. Prices quickly recovered

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