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Farmers Edge to use data to edge into insurance sector

By Leeann Minogue, GFM Network News February 13, 2018

Farmers Edge has signed a four-year agreement with global reinsurance company PartnerRe to bring precision farming technology together with ag insurance. Under the agreement announced this week, the two companies plan to work together to develop new insurance products for the agricultural market. While Canadian farmers have access to government-run, subsidized crop insurance programs, as […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. Congress near deal on tax law’s impact on grain market

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 9, 2018

Washington | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers are close to resolving a problem with the new federal tax law that gives grain co-operatives an unintended market edge over private companies, but have had a hard time getting agreement among members of the farm sector, a Republican senator said Thursday. A provision in the Republican tax overhaul […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

India raises chickpea import duty to 40 per cent

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News February 7, 2018

The Indian government has raised its import tariff for chickpeas from 30 per cent to 40 per cent. The government said Tuesday in the Gazette of India the increased tariff is to be imposed immediately, with existing circumstances making it necessary. Chickpea prices have continued to fall over the last six months, according to reports […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Adverse weather slows West Coast grain movement

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News February 7, 2018

Adverse weather at Canada’s West Coast is causing a backup of vessels waiting to load grain, according to the latest weekly Grain Monitoring Program performance update compiled by Quorum Corp. A total of 30 ships were waiting in Vancouver as of Sunday, which compares with the year-to-date average of 22, according to the report. A […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Brazilian antitrust agency approves Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

By GFM Network News February 7, 2018

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazilian antitrust agency Cade on Wednesday approved Bayer’s proposed takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto without requiring further asset sales beyond a global proposal announced last October. Cade’s commissioners voted 4-2 in favour of the tie-up under an agreement, negotiated between the companies and global antitrust agencies, that included the sale […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Farmers selling ahead of road bans

By GFM Network News February 6, 2018

CNS Canada –– Pulse crop producers in Western Canada are looking to sell what’s left of last year’s crop before spring. Farmers “need to get some cash flow going. They’ve got payments probably in February and March and then they want to beat the road bans,” said Allan Johnston with Johnston’s Grain at Welwyn, Sask. […] Read more

Weekly rainfall from September 26 to October 2, 2017.

Columns, Crops

Soil moisture: the old and new stories

Know your subsoil moisture and your chance of rain to make seeding decisions

By Les Henry February 5, 2018

The first freeze-up stubble soil moisture map was made in Saskatchewan in 1978. Readers with Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water can see it on Page 109. It showed a lot of “very dry” and “dry” space. Red ink was common in the 1980s. The maps below show the situation in fall 1987 and fall […] Read more

Columns, Crops

The value of on-farm research

On the farm, “value” and money aren’t necessarily always the same thing

By Toban Dyck February 5, 2018

The notion of value is a tricky one. For many, it unequivocally refers to money. When a new product promises to deliver more value to your farm, most of us take that to mean that product is going to increase our profits. Or, if not explicitly that, it will make our farms better in a […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Reuters — Nutrien, the Canadian fertilizer and farm supply dealer created from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp this year, said it expected demand growth for potash in China and India to cool down in 2018. Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company by capacity, also said higher input costs would shrink nitrogen and phosphate margins. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer offers asset sales for EU approval of Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Brussels/Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer has offered to sell seeds and pesticides businesses to try to address EU competition concerns over its US$63.5 billion bid for U.S. rival Monsanto. The proposed remedies “are very significant and we are confident they fully address the European Commission’s concerns,” the German company said in a statement on Monday. […] Read more

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Pulses

Farmers Edge to use data to edge into insurance sector

U.S. Congress near deal on tax law’s impact on grain market

India raises chickpea import duty to 40 per cent

Adverse weather slows West Coast grain movement

Brazilian antitrust agency approves Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Pulse weekly outlook: Farmers selling ahead of road bans

Soil moisture: the old and new stories

The value of on-farm research

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

Bayer offers asset sales for EU approval of Monsanto deal

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