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The reason farmers sought market power back then

November 29, 2012

The following contains excerpts from comments to the recent Fields on Wheels conference by Paul Earl, who has a PhD in history and is acting director of the University of Manitoba’s Transport Institute. Earl spent many years working for United Grain Growers and the Western Canadian Grain Growers Association lobbying the federal government to end

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Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Two vocal advocates for deregulating Western Canada’s wheat marketing are now suggesting farmers need a strong voice and new regulations to protect them from the open market. While free enterprise is the best economic system, it only works when transactions are voluntary and there is true competition, Paul Earl, a former lobbyist against the Canadian

Cereals, Crops, News

Costly U.S. wheat has livestock producers seeking other feeds

By Mark Weinraub November 29, 2012

Reuters / U.S. livestock producers are trying to cut the amount of wheat they plan to use in their feed rations as prices have rallied to their highest level against corn in 21 months. But supplies of feed substitutes are scarce, analysts said. “We do not have a lot of corn out here to compensate for

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Chicago’s soybean complex pulls canola downward

By Dwayne Klassen November 29, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform suffered some major downward price action during the week ended Nov. 16, with the sharp losses in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex and favourable weather for the planting and development of soybean crops in Brazil and Argentina tied to the declines. The unloading of

Cereals, News

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

By James Mackenzie November 29, 2012

Reuters / Food prices have eased slightly but this year’s droughts in key producer regions from the Black Sea to the U.S. Corn Belt are keeping cereal stocks at low levels, says a new report from the United Nations’ food agency. “This season’s world cereal supply-and-demand balance is proving much tighter than in 2011-12 with

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

By Catherine Horn November 29, 2012

Reuters / Borsa Italiana is set to launch Europe’s first futures market for durum wheat in November to cater to demand from the continent’s Italian-led pasta makers, but building sufficient trading volumes will be a challenge, traders say. Grain futures generally take a long time to attract a large trading base, and the minimal volumes

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Western grain system humming so far this crop year

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system performed above average during the first 13 weeks of the new crop year, but it’s too soon to tell if there’s a connection with ending of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly, according to Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, the firm hired by the federal government to monitor system performance.

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Why were canola yields down?

By Allan Dawson November 21, 2012

Has canola turned into a wimp or were 2012’s lacklustre western Canadian yields due to poor weather, diseases, insects and pushed rotations? The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) hopes to find out later this month when it meets with the life science companies that produce new canola cultivars, MCGA director Ernie Sirski told the Keystone

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China’s corn revolution promises great leap forward in yields

By Naveen Thukral, Niu Shuping November 22, 2012

Reuters / China’s farmers are using higher-yielding seeds and embracing modern technology in a shift that makes it less likely China will be a long-term major corn importer. Record Chinese imports of 5.5 million tonnes in 2011-12 helped drive up benchmark Chicago corn prices to $8 a bushel earlier this year — more than double

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Canola futures see downward price action

By Dwayne Klassen November 21, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform experienced some weakness during the week ended November 9 with the bearishly construed USDA supply-demand balance tables for soybeans encouraging some of the downward price action. A larger-than-anticipated U.S. soyoil ending stocks estimate from the USDA added to the bearish sentiment in canola. The unloading of positions by

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Tag Archives Wheat

The reason farmers sought market power back then

Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

Costly U.S. wheat has livestock producers seeking other feeds

Chicago’s soybean complex pulls canola downward

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

Western grain system humming so far this crop year

Why were canola yields down?

China’s corn revolution promises great leap forward in yields

Canola futures see downward price action

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