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GFI closes Saskatchewan operations

By Robert Arnason May 15, 2024

Global Food and Ingredients, a plant-based and plant protein company with facilities in Saskatchewan, has announced a “wind down” of its business operations. A May 7 news release on the GFI website says the company cannot service its outstanding debts.

Crops, News

Manitoba crop report: Seeding speeds up to normal pace

May 15, 2024

Planting progress greatly accelerated across Manitoba during the week ended May 12. The province’s crop report released on May 14 showed that seeding was at 30 per cent completion, compared to just four per cent the week before.

Crops, Features, Forages

Shop smart when selecting seed for salt tolerance

Soil tests are recommended before deciding how best to manage salinity

By Jeff Melchior May 15, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Producers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are asking plenty of questions about how to manage salinity in their soil. Jeff Schoenau, a soil science professor with the University of Saskatchewan, is among those fielding questions, although he says the amount of visible salinity in his province is “normal” for April. “I think probably […] Read more

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

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy falls as cooking oil imports excluded from China tariffs

By Reuters May 14, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures dipped on Tuesday as analysts said the market was disappointed that U.S. President Joe Biden's administration did not include used cooking oil on a list of tariff increases on Chinese goods.

Crops, News

Feds invest in research to promote more diverse crop rotations

May 14, 2024

The federal government is investing $5,733,852 million in funding to advance soybean, corn and oat research and promote diverse crop rotations across Canada.

Markets

Pulse weekly: Yellow, green pea prices rise

May 14, 2024

India’s extension of tariff-free pea imports last month has caused a rise in Canadian prices, according to a Saskatchewan pulse merchant.

Ration-balancing tools can help cattle feeders make changes to their rations to include alternative feed types.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner

Do your homework on alternative feeds

What looks to be another dry year will mean added emphasis on byproduct feeds

By Beef Cattle Research Council May 14, 2024

Alternative or non-conventional feeds, such as grain screenings, cull potatoes or distillers’ grains, can be an economical means for beef cattle producers to supplement forage and grain inventories while continuing to meet animal nutritional requirements. However, due to variability in supply, nutrient composition and quality of these feed ingredients, there can be pitfalls if not […] Read more

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

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat hits 9-month highs on Russian crop losses

By Reuters May 13, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose on Monday, hitting nine-month highs on worries about crop losses in top-exporter Russia after multiple nights of frosty weather in key regions.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, pictured here at a Remembrance Day event in 2023. Photo: Supplied/X.

News, Reuters

Alberta urges Trudeau to head off port and rail strikes

By Reuters May 13, 2024

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do all he can to head off potentially devastating strikes by railway and port workers.

Protesters lead a model of reaper as Solidarity organisation and Polish farmers protest with Polish and Solidarity flags and anti Green Deal banners in front of European Parlament building in the centre of Warsaw, the capital of Poland on May 10, 2024. The protest in Poland is part of the European farmers’ protest against the EU’s Green Deal regulations. Polish farmers also demand a change to the EU agreement with Ukraine regarding the import of agricultural produce to the EU. The protest gathered over 100 thousand people. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/Sipa USA)

News, Reuters

Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal

By Reuters May 13, 2024

Five Polish farmers have gone on hunger strike over European Union environmental regulations they say are driving them out of business.

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

Pulses

GFI closes Saskatchewan operations

Manitoba crop report: Seeding speeds up to normal pace

Shop smart when selecting seed for salt tolerance

U.S. grains: Soy falls as cooking oil imports excluded from China tariffs

Feds invest in research to promote more diverse crop rotations

Pulse weekly: Yellow, green pea prices rise

Do your homework on alternative feeds

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat hits 9-month highs on Russian crop losses

Alberta urges Trudeau to head off port and rail strikes

Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal

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