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The Ecuadorian flag flies. PHOTO: YAMIL SALINAS MARTÍNEZ/CREATIVE COMMONS

Canadian government sees agriculture win in free trade agreement with Ecuador

Access for key agriculture exports gained, but not at the cost of supply management

By Gord Gilmour February 13, 2025

Canada's new free trade deal with Ecuador will provide preferential treatment for Canada's key agriculture exports, such as grains and oilseeds, cereals, meat, pulse crops, processed foods and "sugar-containing" products but won't allow additional access to Canada for for supply-managed products such as dairy, poultry and eggs.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall on weak Chinese demand, mounting supplies

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters February 12, 2025

Chicago soy futures eased on Wednesday, pushed lower by Tuesday's U.S. Department of Agriculture report that forecast higher-than-expected U.S. soybean stocks, and continued concerns over weak Chinese demand for U.S. soy, analysts said.

“But we lost a lot of acres… which suggests to me that some organic guys have let some of their organics land go. And they are growing canola on the side,” says Laura Telford. Photo: Greg Berg

Canola, Markets, Soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola set to climb higher

Supplies getting tighter

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 12, 2025

Canola has been on something of a tear for about a month with increases in 16 of its last 20 sessions on the Intercontinental Exchange as of Feb. 12. Despite a great amount of political chaos surrounding all of the markets, the Canadian oilseed is poised to climb higher for the rest of February, said broker Tony Tryhuk of RBC Dominion Securities in Winnipeg, Man.

(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Alexis Stockford)

News, Reuters

Drought leaves Canadian farmers unpaid

Failure of unlicensed companies, complaint deadline, insufficient security seen as holes in farm support

By Ed White, Reuters February 12, 2025

Hundreds of Canadian farmers have received delayed payments for their crops or not been paid at all, as a growing number of grain-buying firms declare bankruptcy amid drought and low commodity prices, according to interviews with dozens of farmers, a government agency, and a review of bankruptcy documents.

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

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy fall after USDA pegs US supply above forecasts

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters February 11, 2025

Chicago corn and soy futures drifted down on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected U.S. end-of-season supplies above market expectations in a monthly supply-and-demand report, analysts said.

Early flooding has little effect on soybean oil, protein composition says U.S. study

Crops

Early flooding has little effect on soybean oil, protein composition U.S. study suggests

By Geralyn Wichers February 11, 2025

While flooding substantially decreases soybean yields, it needn't impact seed composition, including protein and oil contents, a recent University of Arkansas study found.

Crops

Soil carbon measurement and verification system launched

CANZA project to give producers quick, cost-effective tool to help measure, manage and monetize soil carbon

By Jonah Grignon February 11, 2025

The Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food (CANZA) is launching a measurement verification reporting (MRV) system for reporting soil carbon.

Viterra’s Coulter Avenue elevator in Winnipeg on Jan. 22.

Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Canadian graffiti

The government's conditions for a Bunge/Viterra marriage left much to be desired

By Dave Bedard February 11, 2025

I’ve got to admit, I’ve never fully understood the geometry behind federal regulators’ decisions on which assets a company has to sell in exchange for clearance on a big merger or takeover. There may well have been a solid reason why, after Husky sold off its retail gas stations in 2022, our neighbourhood wound up […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago soybean, wheat futures falter on tariff fears

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters February 10, 2025

Chicago wheat and soybean prices came under pressure on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will impose punitive tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, raising concern over potential retaliation against U.S. grain and oilseed exports, analysts said.

Crops

Bayer betting on Prairie camelina

Saskatoon-based Smart Earth has been working to optimize the oilseed

By Dave Bedard February 9, 2025

A Saskatoon company’s camelina catalogue is expected to go to develop new farmed fuels under Bayer’s guidance. Bayer announced in January it has closed a deal to buy the camelina germplasm and intellectual property assets of Smart Earth Camelina Corp. There’s been a fair amount of ink over the past 20-odd years about camelina and […] Read more

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

Oilseeds

Canadian government sees agriculture win in free trade agreement with Ecuador

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall on weak Chinese demand, mounting supplies

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola set to climb higher

Drought leaves Canadian farmers unpaid

U.S. grains: Corn, soy fall after USDA pegs US supply above forecasts

Early flooding has little effect on soybean oil, protein composition U.S. study suggests

Soil carbon measurement and verification system launched

Editor’s Rant: Canadian graffiti

U.S. grains: Chicago soybean, wheat futures falter on tariff fears

Bayer betting on Prairie camelina

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