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Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Thoughts on green policy-making ahead of Justin Trudeau's departure

By Dave Bedard January 30, 2025

Up on the shelf where we keep light bulbs of assorted sizes and wattages, I just happened across an old compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — remember, those bulbs that looked like an Arby’s curly fry wrapped in thin white glass? Talk about a relic from a bygone time in western civilization when, it seemed, the […] Read more

Crush plants on the Prairies are going flat out these days, including the four in Alberta at Lloydminster (ADM), Fort Saskatchewan (Bunge), Camrose (Cargill) and Lethbridge (Richardson). Photo: iStock

Canola, Markets, News

U.S. threatening Canada’s canola oil industry

Chinese used cooking oil another threat

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 27, 2025

Canada's canola oil industry is facing two threats from the United States, said Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Canadian Oilseed Processors Association.

Columns

Selenium sits on thinnest line between health and hazard

Agronomy Management: Removing selenium from water is costly and difficult at best

By Ross H. McKenzie January 22, 2025

There are increasing concerns about the potential effects of a proposed coal mine development in southern Alberta and the impacts selenium could have on the environment in southern Alberta and into Saskatchewan. The proposed Grassy Mountain Coal project would be an open-pit mine built on a former coal-mining area about seven km north of Blairmore […] Read more

“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 facing ‘extreme uncertainties’ says trader

Excluded from U.S. biofuel tax credits, facing tighter supplies

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 22, 2025

The path canola is to take as January turns to February has been marked by “extreme uncertainties,” explained broker Ken Ball of Ventum Financial in Winnipeg.

Equipment, Machinery, Trucks and UTVs

Kenworth to limit availability of manual transmissions

Emissions limits require the brand to impose auto transmissions on most buyers

By Scott Garvey January 17, 2025

Back in the day, truck drivers were often referred to as gear jammers, because they would have to manually shift their way through 10, 13, 15 or more gears. That moniker seems to have faded into history, and one reason may account for that more than any other: industry figures estimate 90 to 95 per […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Feds’ conditions not near enough to alleviate concerns

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2025

The National Farmers Union denounced the approval of the Bunge-Viterra merger in a statement released on Jan. 17. The NFU said the multi-billion dollar deal “effectively ends competition in Canada’s agricultural commodity sector,” as it creates the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader, and it will control 40 per cent of the Canadian grain market.

General, Markets, News

Trump tariffs would weaken loonie, then U.S. dollar

Canadian government missing in action

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 16, 2025

With Donald Trump set to become President of the United States on Jan. 20, uncertainty continues to swirl about his threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all goods the U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico as early as that Monday. Should Trump press ahead with his levies, the Canadian dollar would be caught up in the collateral damage.

News

Provincial leaders united in face of Trump tariffs

By Jonah Grignon January 16, 2025

Canadian federal and provincial governments are presenting a united front to make sure threatened U.S. tariffs don’t go forward

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his intention to step down as Liberal leader from his Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 6, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS/PATRICK DOYLE

News

UPDATED: Agriculture groups react to Trudeau resignation

By Jonah Grignon January 6, 2025

There were mixed reactions from Canadian farm groups after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of the federal Liberals.

Crop tour finds strong corn, soy potential along with diseases in Illinois, western Iowa

India imports canola oil after 5 years as local prices surge

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures continue rally on constrained supply

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