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Prairie farmers reluctant to sell into canola cash market

By GFM Network News November 27, 2014

CNS Canada –– Prairie farmers are reluctant to sell into canola cash markets, in turn supporting basis levels recently as buyers have to work to entice farmer selling. “I think farmers are patient; they are not selling this market when you see minor dips,” said Jerry Klassen, manager for Swiss-based GAP SA Grains and Products […] Read more

LeMine Investment Group, which has done a $1 billion deal to ship Canadian canola oil to China, now has a Saskatchewan canola crushing plant on its drawing board, according to CEO Thomas Liu. (LeMineGroup.com)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Condo seller to tap China’s edible oil demand

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News November 26, 2014

Winnipeg | Reuters — A Canadian company better known for selling condominiums has walked into a $1 billion deal to ship edible oil to China as consumer demand there overtakes domestic supplies. Fengguan Edible Oil Ltd. Co., a Chinese producer of oil from rapeseed, contacted Toronto-based LeMine Investment Group this year about securing canola oil, […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Dreyfus unsure when Sask. canola plant will reopen

By GFM Network News November 25, 2014

CNS Canada –– A month after an explosion crippled the Louis Dreyfus Commodities canola crushing plant at Yorkton, Sask., it’s still unclear when operations will resume. LDC Canada’s vice-president Brian Conn issued a statement Tuesday outlining its “preliminary assessment” of the situation. While the investigation is ongoing, Dreyfus’ assessment so far indicates the Oct. 24 […] Read more

young family standing in a field of corn

Cereals, Crops, News

Adding value pays off for farm business

Manitoba: When buying more land became difficult, Myron and Jillian Krahn made the most of what they had

By Lee Hart November 24, 2014

Myron and Jillian Krahn don’t have a lot of opportunity to increase the land base of their southern Manitoba farm, but they do grab every opportunity they can to add more value to farm enterprises they do have. They’ve increased the size of the farm near Carman, Man. considerably since they took over the operation […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Steadier demand sought in China for Canadian canola

By GFM Network News November 21, 2014

CNS Canada — Chinese demand for Canada’s canola and canola oil remains a key driver for the Canadian industry — but China has been an inconsistent customer in the past, which makes developing ongoing relationships important. China in 2013-14 imported 3.9 million tonnes of Canadian canola, accounting for almost half of Canada’s total exports during […] Read more

Columns, Crops, Marketing

Grain marketing, Mother Nature and Murphy’s Law

Some years anything that can go wrong, will. Avoid further trouble with these three marketing strategies

By Brian Wittal November 10, 2014

For many the first week of September 2014 was no doubt an agonizing experience as you had to sit by helplessly and watch it rain and snow and freeze. Undeniable proof that Mother Nature’s last name has to be Murphy, and she was in the mood to apply the full wrath of Murphy’s Law to […] Read more

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Canola, Cereals, Crops, Features

Farming was the right choice

After 40 years of farming, Blair Rempel knows he made the right choice when he chose to come back to the farm

By Shirley Byers November 10, 2014

Blair Rempel has been farming for almost 40 years. The Nipawin area producer and seed grower earned his diploma in agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1976. He considered other careers but always came back to agriculture. “The things I found attractive was a certain degree of independence and the satisfaction of building your […] Read more

Cereals, Markets

CWB Expects Higher Returns For Canola, Wheat And Durum

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News November 6, 2014

CNS – CWB, formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board, has raised Pool Return Outlooks (PROs) for durum, wheat and canola in its latest report. They noted it is a special mid-term outlook, due to market changes since the previous report released on October 23. PROs were higher for all three crops due to the weaker […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Scoular to source canola, sell output for Legumex’s U.S. crusher

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 28, 2014

Grain trading firm The Scoular Co. is set to start feeding canola to Prairie special crop processor Legumex Walker’s crushing facility near the U.S. West Coast — and to market the plant’s production. Winnipeg-based Legumex on Monday announced a “long-term strategic alliance” with Scoular, in which Scoular will procure all canola seed for processing at Legumex’s […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Dreyfus’ Sask. canola plant offline indefinitely

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 28, 2014

Reuters — A canola-crushing plant owned by the Canadian unit of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus will be offline indefinitely after an explosion and fire on Friday, the company said. Firefighters are investigating the cause of the blast at the Yorkton, Sask. plant, and an assessment of the structural condition of a canola meal storage […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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