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GSI has added modular mixed-flow grain dryers to its product line for the 2025 growing season.

GSI introduces mixed-flow grain dryer

Modular design allows for easy capacity increases as needs change

By Scott Garvey November 13, 2024

GSI in mid-September announced it’s introducing a new line of mixed-flow grain dryers, to be available for the 2025 growing season. That, according to the company, gives it one of the broadest ranges of dryer types on the market from any one brand. According to GSI’s product manager for grain conditioning products, Alan Lockwood, the […] Read more

Canola, Markets, News, Soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: Sideways trading likely until Trump sworn in

Uncertainty over policies of president-elect

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 13, 2024

As to where canola and other grains go in the coming months is somewhat uncertain, said analyst Wayne Palmer of Exceed Grain in Winnipeg. He pointed directly at the incoming Trump administration in the United States and the policies the president-elect has been touting.

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Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: U.S. election drags down soybeans

By Adam Peleshaty November 13, 2024

Results from the United States election pulled down soybean prices at the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended Nov. 13, 2024.

Columns

What will a Middle East war do to your costs and prices?

Bonds and Risk: Expect fuel costs to be up, interest costs down

By Andrew Allentuck November 13, 2024

Farmers are caught in a developing cost squeeze. Global oil costs are threatening to balloon from about US$80 today to over US$100 per barrel, which would be a 25 per cent leap. On the other hand, interest rates in the U.S. and Canada are scheduled to decline by as much as 1.5 per cent by […] Read more

Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, News, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

USDA lowers U.S. soybean/corn yield estimates

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2024

There were a few tweaks to the latest monthly report from the United States Department of Agriculture released on Nov. 8. The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates not only lowered yields for U.S. corn and soybeans, the department reduced the ending stocks for both.

Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat bids rise, durum down

By Adam Peleshaty November 8, 2024

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada were slightly higher than the week before on Nov. 7, 2024. Meanwhile, durum prices were a bit lower.

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Trio of events loom over U.S. soybeans, corn

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 6, 2024

The trade's initial reaction to the re-election of former United States President Donald Trump was bearish for soybeans and corn on the Chicago Board of Trade on Nov. 6. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement on Nov. 7 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's supply and demand report on Nov. 8 are likely to have a bullish effect on those commodities, said Allendale Inc. president Steve Georgy.

Columns, Practical Tips

Memories of a great Albertan

Practical Research: Fifteen years after his passing, Joseph Gurba's long reach through the province’s farming history remains

By Ieuan Evans November 5, 2024

I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection branch, in August 1974. I was at the time an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, more interested in rugby coaching than in basic plant disease research. Joe told me the provincewide position would […] Read more

A freighter is loaded with grain from a terminal at Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

Vancouver port employer could shut out foremen, grain will not be hit

By Ed White, Reuters November 1, 2024

Port of Vancouver foremen will be locked out on Monday unless they scrap a proposed strike, employers at Canada's biggest port said on Friday, but grain handling would not be affected.

FILE PHOTO: Tugs are seen in the Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17, 2021.
Photo: REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File

News, Reuters

Port of Montreal workers at two terminals start new strike, employer group says

By David Ljunggren, Reuters November 1, 2024

Reuters – Unionized workers started an unlimited strike at two terminals of the port of Montreal on Thursday amid stalled talks on a new labor contract, the employers’ association said. The strike affects two terminals operated by Termont, which handle about 40 per cent of the port’s container traffic but only about 15 per cent […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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