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Saskatchewan few points short of wrapping up spring planting

Topsoil moisture levels down

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 5, 2025

Farmers in Saskatchewan have virtually wrapped up their spring seeding for 2025, with the provincial agriculture department reporting the crops were 97 per cent planted as of June 2. That's up nine points on the week, three ahead of this time last year and two above the five-year average.

File photo of a pedestrian crossing in front of the World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 9, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

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China blocks Canada’s request for review of Chinese duties on agriculture, fish

Next meeting June 23

By Reuters June 5, 2025

China has blocked Canada's request to set up a dispute panel to review additional import duties by China on certain Canadian farming products and fish, a Geneva-based trade official said on June 5.

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Pulse Canada president encouraged by first ministers’ statement

Cherewyk calls for immediate end to China’s tariffs

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 4, 2025

Greg Cherewyk was pleased with the final communique that came out of the first ministers' conference in Saskatoon on June 2. The statement noted the federal government's commitment to resolving trade issues with China.

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

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Substantial prices gains for live, feeder cattle

By Adam Peleshaty June 4, 2025

Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange made substantial gains on Wednesday, aided by a weaker United States dollar. The August live cattle contract gained US$2.600 per hundredweight and ended the day at US$212.350. The August feeder cattle contract rose by a similar amount, gaining US$2.650/cwt. to close at US$303.875. The United States Department of […] Read more

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Corn, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

U.S. grains: Wheat prices climb amid Ukraine-Russia unrest

China's dry weather may impact wheat harvests

By Julie Ingwersen, Reuters June 4, 2025

U.S. wheat futures rose more than one per cent on Wednesday as signs of a hardening conflict between Ukraine and Russia and worries about dryness in China appeared to spark a round of short-covering, analysts said.

Markets

ICE canola weekly outlook: Weather to drive market

Conditions range from too dry to too wet

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 4, 2025

Weather conditions across the Canadian Prairies will likely be a major driver of the canola futures market in the weeks ahead, as attention shifts from the tight old crop supply situation to the prospects for the new crop.

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Crop conditions raise spring wheat prices

Other crop prices firmer, stronger

By Adam Peleshaty June 4, 2025

Spring wheat prices rose, while other prices were firmer or higher during the week ended June 4, 2025.

Osler, a Canadian law firm, has tried to explain what’s happening with U.S. tariffs in a post on its website. It’s likely tariffs will persist, regardless of court decisions in the United States. Photo: Osler screenshot

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Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer

A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos

By Robert Arnason June 4, 2025

Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.

Fusarium-infected wheat heads in a wheat field near Stockholm, Sask., on July 20, 2024. Photo: Greg Berg

Cereals, News, Reuters

Two Chinese researchers accused of smuggling ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into U.S.

Fusarium poses threat

By Jasper Ward, Reuters June 4, 2025

U.S. federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that had the potential to be used as an agricultural terrorism weapon into the United States for research.

Canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets, Pulses, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Spring planting in Manitoba close to finished

Province gets very little rain over the week

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 4, 2025

Dry conditions continued to spur quick seeding progress in Manitoba, as the provincial agriculture department reported spring planting reached 95 per cent complete as of June 3.

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JBS reaches deal with U.S. meatpacking workers who went on strike

Public consultation open on national beef code of practice

Pulse weekly: Indian forecasters predict below-normal monsoon

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