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Producers with early contracts received good prices, especially for organic crops such as oats and flax. Photo: File/Greg Berg

Oats swinging higher, but rangebound

Futures no longer connected to cash market

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 6, 2025

As oat futures fluctuate on the Chicago Board of Trade, they remain rangebound, said Progressive Ag analyst Tom Lilja in Fargo, N.D. However, to Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada in Yorkton, Sask. there’s a disconnect between those futures and cash prices for oats.

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Mixed movement in meat futures

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm March 6, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Cattle prices showed small declines while hog prices sharply rose at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Thursday. United States President Donald Trump announced that certain imports from Mexico which fall under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement will see tariffs delayed until April 2. Canada was also included in the official amendment […] Read more

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

Trump delays tariffs for goods covered under Mexico, Canada trade deal

By Katharine Jackson, Reuters March 6, 2025

President Donald Trump on Thursday exempted goods from both Canada and Mexico under a North American trade pact for a month from the 25 per cent tariffs that he had imposed earlier this week

Barley, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grains Weekly: Prices feeling the tariff pressure

This is a bit of an overreaction says broker

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 6, 2025

Even before tariffs were imposed by United States President Donald Trump on March 4, the levies were having an impact on Western Canadian feed grain prices, said Jay Janzen of CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, Alta.

File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)

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National Farmers Union calls for ‘serious response’ to tariffs

National Farmers Union says a more long-term strategy is necessary, including a more substantial policy to external disruptions

By Janelle Rudolph March 6, 2025

The NFU says a serious response is needed to the tariffs, but any retaliatory measures must consider and protect Canadian farmers, farm workers and consumers.

The Canadian Grain Commission said Aug. 28 both dealer and primary elevator licences at Purely Canada Foods’ Saskatchewan facilities in Avonlea, Kindersley and Lajord had been pulled and farmers in all three prairie provinces could be owed money. | Screencap via youtube.com/Purely Canada Foods

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Eligible Purely Canada claimants receive full payouts

Not all claims against the Saskatchewan-based company were eligible

By Karen Briere March 6, 2025

The Canadian Grain Commission has announced that producers owed money from Purely Canada Foods have been fully compensated, just days after a lender applied to place the company in receivership.

Trevor Thiessen of Redekop Manufacturing explains the company’s straw chopper to a farmer from Oregon at the Commodity Classic in Denver, Colorado, March 4. Redekop and other Canadian manufacturers are adjusting to 25 per cent tariffs on goods exported to the United States. | Robert Arnason photo

Machinery, News

Prairie equipment manufacturers adjust to tariffs

Some ag equipment makers moved U.S.-bound machines south before tariffs were imposed

By Robert Arnason March 6, 2025

In 2023, Saskatchewan exported about $834 million worth of agricultural equipment to the United States. A portion of those exports were straw choppers and weed seed control units, manufactured by Redekop at its plant near Saskatoon.

News

Mexico dodges U.S. tariffs temporarily

In Truth Social post, Trump said tariffs now delayed until April 2

By Gord Gilmour March 6, 2025

A Donald Trump social media post has postponed U.S. tariffs on Mexico until April 2, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicts a drawn out trade war for Canada.

Canada’s beef sector got more bad bovine tuberculosis news Feb. 25 after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said their investigation into a case confirmed November 2024 had yielded more infections. PHOTO: LISA GUENTHER

Beef Cattle, Livestock, News

Value swings immense on cattle with imposed tariffs by U.S.

Analyst urges beef producers to stay in constant communication with evolving tariff landscape

By Greg Price March 6, 2025

The tremors continue to be felt across Canadian agriculture following U.S. president Donald Trump's earthquake announcement on Tuesday, that was certainly the case at the Alberta Beef Industry Conference in Calgary.

Trudeau pledges economic support in face of U.S. tariffs

News, Reuters

Canada will be in trade war with US for foreseeable future, says Trudeau

By David Ljunggren, Promit Mukherjee, Reuters March 6, 2025

Canada will continue to be in a trade war with the United States for the foreseeable future, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, a day after what he called a "colorful" call with President Donald Trump.

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

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Oats swinging higher, but rangebound

U.S. livestock: Mixed movement in meat futures

Trump delays tariffs for goods covered under Mexico, Canada trade deal

Feed Grains Weekly: Prices feeling the tariff pressure

National Farmers Union calls for ‘serious response’ to tariffs

Eligible Purely Canada claimants receive full payouts

Prairie equipment manufacturers adjust to tariffs

Mexico dodges U.S. tariffs temporarily

Value swings immense on cattle with imposed tariffs by U.S.

Canada will be in trade war with US for foreseeable future, says Trudeau

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