China's rapeseed meal futures sunk 4.6 per cent on Monday on hopes that Beijing would ease an anti-dumping probe on imports of Canadian rapeseed after Ottawa said it would grant firms temporary relief from tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
Chicago wheat futures fell sharply on Friday as rains were expected to benefit global wheat-growing regions, analysts said. A shift in Russian export policies also fuelled concerns that U.S. commercial grain companies will be left holding large supplies of wheat.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co intentionally failed to test and maintain safety systems on its grain equipment for years, which contributed to an explosion that immolated a U.S. worker and put him in a coma last year, according to a lawsuit filed against the company.
Canada's current agricultural policies are not serving the well-being of the public. Canada's agricultural program payments and subsidies are not aligned with the government's dietary guidelines and health goals.
Chicago Board of Trade corn futures rose on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said exporters reported the biggest daily export sale of the grain in more than a year.
The ICE Futures canola market backed away from nearby highs during the week ended Oct. 16, as losses in Chicago soybeans and soyoil weighed on values. With the canola harvest in its final stages across Western Canada, the market will likely settle in a sideways range while looking to outside influences for direction.
Federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon on Tuesday proposed the appointment of a special mediator for a 90-day period in a bid to solve the ongoing labour dispute at the Port of Montreal.
U.S. corn and soybean futures fell for a fourth straight session on Tuesday and hit multi-week lows, guided by sharp declines in equities and crude oil and forecasts for timely rains in Brazil that have tempered worries about early-season planting delays.
Soy and corn futures turned lower on Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's supply and demand report confirmed the advancing harvests in the U.S. will be some of the largest on record.
Ukraine's 2024/25 grain exports are likely to decrease to around 40 million metric tons from almost 51 million tons in 2023/24 due to a smaller harvest, the first deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy said on Friday.