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Most Canadian grain stocks tighter than a year ago

For many of Canada’s major crops, their holdings came in lower than a year ago, as Statistics Canada released its stocks of principal field crops as of March 31 report. There were declines in all wheat, durum, oats, corn, lentils and peas, but there were increases for barley and canola while soybeans were relatively steady.




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Railway strike vote dismays farmers  

Grain Growers of Canada calls on railways, workers to resolve their differences 

Grain Growers of Canada is sounding the alarm over a potential strike by workers at both of the country’s major railways.






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U.S. shuns free trade agreements

Senators rake the U.S. Trade Representative over the coals for the Biden administration’s trade policy agenda

Virginia Houston, director of government affairs with the American Soybean Association, says president Joe Biden’s administration feels FTAs pit U.S. domestic industries against one another.