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Notable changes in exports to China, India

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 7, 2025

China and India figured prominently in the September export data issued by the Canadian Grain Commission on Nov. 7. For the most part, the CGC’s numbers highlighted issues with grain, oilseed and pulse exports from licensed facilities to those countries.

Crops, Markets

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices starting to pick up

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 6, 2025

Prices for feed grain are “grinding higher” said Evan Peterson, trader with JGL Commodities in Saskatoon.

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency began reviewing the safety of Liberty, a BASF herbicide, in 2018.
The timeline for the review has been extended, multiple times, and won't be done until 2027 | X screenshot

Crops

Ten years to study a pesticide?

PMRA dealing with a backlog of post-market reviews, bogging down Canada’s regulatory system

By Robert Arnason November 6, 2025

Health Canada and its Pest Management Regulatory Agency will have taken nine to 10 years to conduct an evaluation of the safety of glufosinate — a herbicide that is already on the market.

Canola, Markets

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market rangebound

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 5, 2025

ICE canola futures saw some wide price swings during the week ended Nov. 5, although the market remains stuck in a sideways range overall.

Crops, Markets

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Prices up in most areas

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 5, 2025

Cash prices for spring wheat and durum across the Canadian Prairies were mostly higher during the week ended Nov. 4. As Minneapolis spring wheat stepped back, there was a modest increase in Kansas City hard red while Chicago soft red was up sharply.

Spearmint being harvested at Quattro Ventures farm in southeastern Alberta. Photo: Quattro Ventures

Crops, Features

How a southern Alberta farm maintains mint condition

Quattro Ventures grows mint for the essential oils market and had a lot to learn about the agronomics for this specialty crop

By Mark Halsall November 4, 2025

An estimated 25 per cent of North America’s mint oil is now the product of a southeastern Alberta farming business, but don’t get the idea that commercial mint production is a job for the faint of heart.

Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: India imposes 30 per cent tariff on yellow peas

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 3, 2025

Pulse Canada is quite unhappy with the Indian government’s recent move to slap a 30 per cent tariff on its yellow pea imports, said the pulse organization’s board chair Terry Youzwa.

Aerial drone view of tractor working on agriculture spring field. photo:erika8213/stockimages

Crops, Features

Improving agriculture’s economic and environmental sustainability

Policy fellows highlight need for more targeted risk management programs, land assessment and vegetable sector soil support

By Matt McIntosh November 3, 2025

Improving the resilience of Canadian agriculture requires more flexible and targeted conservation and safety net programming, according to doctoral and distinguished fellows with the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute.

wheat field in St. Andrews, Manitoba in 2018. Photo: Greg Berg

Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Urea stands tall, production-wise, against ‘alternative’ nitrogen fertilizers

N stabilizers did their job but offered little value to wheat yield, says project lead

By Jeff Melchior October 31, 2025

A two-year Alberta project finds old-school granular urea is still the most effective nitrogen fertilizer source for spring wheat yield when compared to “alternative” forms of granular N, at least at the sites studied.

Columns, Farm Life, Fruit/Vegetables

Putting down roots, part 1: Beets

First We Eat: Taking us back to lands left behind, beets today are the closest we get to eating a mouthful of minerals

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith October 31, 2025

Densely textured, richly coloured and earthy even in their seed form, beets are reminiscent of dirt for Saskatchewan writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith.

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans higher in technical bounce; wheat firms

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026