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Frozen barley crops to push craft beer prices higher

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News September 22, 2014

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Beer prices in North America may rise next year as brewers and maltsters face higher costs after cold, wet weather damaged Canadian barley crops and left farmers and tipplers crying in their beer. Canada, the world’s second-biggest exporter of malting barley, was already harvesting its smallest crop since 1968, before a […] Read more

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Malt barley prospects decline with excess moisture

By GFM Network News September 9, 2014

CNS Canada — It looks like this year’s Canadian malt barley crop could be a lot smaller than originally expected. Canada’s 2014-15 barley production was estimated at 7.2 million tonnes by Statistics Canada. This compares to last year’s total of 10.2 million tonnes. That estimate, however, was before persistent rains swept across the Prairies during […] Read more

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Big Rock Brewery founder Ed McNally, 89

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 21, 2014

The lawyer and farmer who founded Calgary’s Big Rock Brewery has died at age 89. Ed McNally, who founded what’s now Canada’s second largest Canadian-owned brewery in 1985, had retired as the company’s CEO in 2012, remaining its “chairman emeritus.” The cause of his death late Tuesday was not released. “Ed leaves behind a legacy […] Read more

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Southern Alta. barley harvest underway

By GFM Network News August 13, 2014

CNS Canada — Harvest started this week for some barley crops in southern Alberta — parts of which have reported little or no rain for weeks. “I’m in southern Alberta (where) we just started harvest on our barley (on Monday), and I would say that the barley crops look good, (but) we’ve been a bit […] Read more

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W. Canada spring wheat, durum yields look second-biggest ever: crop tour

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News July 31, 2014

Reuters — Western Canada spring wheat and durum yields this year look to fall from last year’s high levels, but the still bountiful production should offset some losses from flooded farms, leaders of a crop tour said on Thursday. The inaugural Cereals North America Canadian crop tour pegged spring wheat yield potential in the region […] Read more

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Saskatchewan canola crop development variable: crop tour

By GFM Network News July 30, 2014

CNS– The development of canola was clearly at varying stages of development in east central and southeast Saskatchewan during the third day of a crop tour organized by CWB (formerly the Canadian Wheat Board). On July 30, participants took a circuitous tour starting in Yorkton, then going northwest to Melfort, before once again heading south […] Read more

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Slow sales, transportation keep Prairie feed grain supported

By GFM Network News July 23, 2014

CNS — Feed grain prices are above milling prices in some areas of Western Canada right now due to complicated travel logistics and patient farmers, says an industry analyst. “Just in general right now, farmers aren’t really big sellers of crop,” said Charlie Pearson, a provincial crops market analyst at Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, Oats, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Ag Canada tightens grain/oilseed stocks projections

By GFM Network News July 22, 2014

CNS — Ending stocks of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds at the close of the upcoming 2014/15 (Jul/Nov) crop year will be tighter than earlier projections, according to updated supply/demand tables released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis branch on July 22. The latest tables take into account the latest acreage estimates released by […] Read more

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Whether to spray for fusarium: flowering period is key

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News July 18, 2014

Wet weather in eastern Saskatchewan and much of Manitoba means farmers likely have fusarium head blight risk on their minds. But cereal grades are only at stake risk if environmental risks match up with flowering, a crop pathologist says. Vikram Bisht, field crop pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, says two or three […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Ukraine questions legal basis of Crimea’s grain exports

By GFM Network News July 10, 2014

Moscow | Reuters — Ukraine protested over recent grain exports from Crimea on Thursday, questioning their legal basis following Russia’s annexation of the region and fuelling tensions between the two countries. Russia and Ukraine are the region’s main global grain exporters and rivals to supply customers in North Africa and the Middle East. Russia announced […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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