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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

(Video screengrab from Lentils.org via YouTube)

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

(ADM photo by Dave Bedard, Bunge photo via Bunge)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

ADM in talks to buy Bunge as early as this week

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Reuters — Top U.S. grains merchant Archer Daniels Midland could reach an agreement to buy smaller rival Bunge as early as this week, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The potential deal comes as large grain traders that make money by buying, selling, storing and shipping commodity crops have struggled […] Read more

Columns, Markets

Grain marketing lessons learned the hard way

Events in 2017 gave us many opportunities to make grain marketing mistakes

By Brian Wittal February 2, 2018

I know some of you living in Alberta where the boom and bust cycle of the oil and gas industry is all too common will have seen a bumper sticker on an oilfield worker’s truck that says, “Lord, give me one more chance at another oil boom and I promise I won’t piss it all […] Read more

Campbell Soup Co. plans to close its 87-year-old Toronto soup plant by mid-2019. (Campbell Soup Co. via BusinessWire)

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Moving freight to get more expensive for food companies

By GFM Network News February 2, 2018

Reuters — U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores. Hershey, Mondelez International, J.M. Smucker and Campbell Soup said […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

DowDuPont upbeat on growth as sales rise

By GFM Network News February 1, 2018

Reuters — U.S. chemicals producer DowDuPont reported a 14 per cent rise in net sales for the fourth quarter and beat Wall Street profit estimates as a strong global economy led to robust demand and higher prices for its products. The newly-combined company, formed by the merger of chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont four […] Read more

Daily Network News

U.S. deputy farm secretary to meet with Mosaic amid high fertilizer prices

Corteva taps Luke Kissam to lead crop protection unit after spinoff

Klassen: Stronger fed market pulls feeder cattle complex upward

Pulses

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

ADM in talks to buy Bunge as early as this week

Grain marketing lessons learned the hard way

Moving freight to get more expensive for food companies

DowDuPont upbeat on growth as sales rise

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