Clear skies allowed Alberta producers to advance their harvesting operations during the week ended Aug. 26, 2025.
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Alberta Crop Report: Clear weather aids harvest
Klassen: Feeder market continues to climb
For the week ending August 30, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $4-$8/cwt higher on average. Quality yearling and calf packages were up as much as $15/cwt in some cases.
Louis Dreyfus buys oilseed assets from Bunge in Poland and Hungary
Louis Dreyfus Company has acquired grains and oilseeds processing, storage and trading activities in Hungary and Poland from rival agricultural commodity merchant Bunge Global, fulfilling conditions Bunge needed to meet to get approval of its merger with Viterra.
World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo
Argentine polo authorities balk at arrival of gene-edited horses
Kheiron Biotech, an Argentine company, has bred gene-edited polo ponies and says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding.
Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back
Expected to drop passed last year’s lows
As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb, lean hogs also rise
Chicago cattle futures climbed on Friday after dipping on Thursday due to technical selling. Lean hogs also rose.
U.S. grains: Corn rises on strong demand, disease concerns
Chicago Board of Trade corn futures firmed on Friday on support from strong international demand, concerns over disease in the U.S. Midwest and technical support, analysts said.
Farm cash receipts rise in first half of 2025 on livestock gains
Crop receipts roughly level, direct payments fall on reduced crop insurance
Farm cash receipts in the first half of the year were up 3.3 per cent over the same period last year buoyed by livestock receipts. Overall receipts between January and June totalled $49.6 billion, up $1.6 billion from the same period last year, Statistics Canada reported.
China boosts soybean buys from Argentina, Uruguay amid U.S. trade war, sources say
China has yet to book US soybean imports for fourth quarter
China's soybean importers are boosting purchases from Argentina and Uruguay over the next year to fill the supply gap left by the absence of U.S. shipments as the trade war drags on.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Prices mostly lower
StatCan projects less wheat in 2025/26
Cash prices for spring wheat and durum across the Canadian Prairies incurred losses almost across the board during the week ended Aug. 28.