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Crops, Dairy Cattle, Reuters, Spring Wheat

J.M. Smucker to sell U.S. baking brands

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 9, 2018

Reuters — J.M. Smucker Co. said on Monday it would sell its U.S. baking business, which includes brands such as Pillsbury, Martha White and Hungry Jack, to private equity firm Brynwood Partners for US$375 million. The deal includes a manufacturing facility in Toledo, Ohio, but excludes the baking business in Canada, the company said. “The […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Soybeans, Spring Wheat

AMIS adjusts world grain production outlooks

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News July 6, 2018

CNS Canada –– Global supply-demand outlooks, released by the market monitoring agency of an alliance of 11 international organizations, point to lower corn production for 2018-19. The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) Market Monitor report for July said the record corn harvest in 2017-18 will slip by more than four per cent in 2018-19. That’s […] Read more

Barley south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie market focused on weather

By GFM Network News July 5, 2018

CNS Canada — Western Canadian feed grain buyers aren’t concerned if they’ll have crops to buy at the end of the summer, but they are concerned what the quality of those crops will be. “At this point it’s a weather market. So we kind of wait and see as it unfolds and respond accordingly,” said […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

StatsCan: Canola area narrows, wheat sowings expand

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 29, 2018

Reuters — Canadian farmers seeded less canola and more wheat compared with last year, but they shifted their plans from earlier this spring to sow more land with canola. Canola plantings reached 22.7 million acres, shy of last year’s 23 million, but exceeding the average trade guess of 22.4 million acres. In spring, Statscan estimated […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Producers watching skies for signals

By GFM Network News June 28, 2018

CNS Canada — Farmers and traders are keeping a watchful eye on the weather trying to sort out feed grain supplies. “This time of year, it’s a weather market and weather has been improving in much of Saskatchewan and in some of the more critically dry areas. They got a decent amount of moisture over […] Read more

Namdaemun, the “Great Southern Gate” in the walls that once surrounded the city of Seoul. This photo was taken before a 2008 fire damaged the gate’s wooden structure, which was restored by May 2013. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

South Korea lifts suspension on Canadian wheat sales

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 26, 2018

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea’s food ministry on Tuesday said it had lifted a temporary suspension on sales of Canadian wheat as it had not discovered any unapproved genetically modified strains during tests on imports. South Korea suspended sales of Canadian wheat last week after Canada announced the discovery in mid-2017 of an unapproved […] Read more

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News June 23, 2018

Wheat sales are expected to soon resume to Japan and South Korea. Both nations suspended Canadian wheat imports following the June 15 announcement that Canada had discovered several genetically modified (GM) wheat plants in southern Alberta. But both are expected to come back to the market shortly, while exports to others won’t be affected, according […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Markets watch Japan wheat ban, trade fights

By GFM Network News June 21, 2018

CNS Canada — A Japanese ban on Canadian wheat might eventually push more wheat into feed markets, but traders say that’s not happening so far. Japan, Canada’s No. 2 wheat buyer after the U.S., instituted the ban last Friday after genetically modified wheat was discovered growing in Alberta. GM wheat is not approved for commercial […] Read more

Rotating from cereals to pulses can help lower your seed and soil-borne disease pressure.

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Cereals clean up before a pulse crop

Planting a cereal crop can help set up your next pulse crop for success

By Doug Fehr, Shawna Hogg June 19, 2018

Cereals are more than just a rotational crop between your canola and lentils; they can play a key role in setting up next year’s pulse crop for success by helping clean up your fields of weeds and soil-borne disease. When you look at weed control and resistance management, cereal crops offer the broadest range of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

South Korea halts sale of Canadian wheat, flour

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 18, 2018

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea has suspended the sale of wheat and flour from Canada after Canadian officials announced last week the discovery in mid-2017 of an unapproved genetically modified trait in southern Alberta. “We will only allow sale of wheat products that are confirmed not to contain unapproved genetically modified wheat,” South Korea’s […] Read more

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J.M. Smucker to sell U.S. baking brands

AMIS adjusts world grain production outlooks

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie market focused on weather

StatsCan: Canola area narrows, wheat sowings expand

Feed weekly outlook: Producers watching skies for signals

South Korea lifts suspension on Canadian wheat sales

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

Feed weekly outlook: Markets watch Japan wheat ban, trade fights

Cereals clean up before a pulse crop

South Korea halts sale of Canadian wheat, flour

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