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Early harvest pressures Prairie barley prices

By GFM Network News August 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Barley prices in Western Canada are falling as an early harvest is weighing on values. “Prices have moderated here,” said Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities Ltd. Lethbridge, Alta. The surprise rally from last week ended as quickly as it began. Prices which started last week at about C$250 per tonne were […] Read more

Crops

New GM technique promises to speed new crop development

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Scientists in the United States say they have found a new method for inserting genes into crops that could speed up development of new varieties. “Making genetic improvements that were difficult or impossible before will be much easier because we can now insert not just one or two genes, but multiple genes […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Corn and soybeans sitting firm ahead of USDA report

By GFM Network News August 8, 2018

CNS Canada – Corn and soybean markets at the Chicago Board of Trade have been strengthening ahead of Friday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report from the United States Department of Agriculture. “There’s been a lot of really big yield estimates we’ve been throwing around that people are starting to walk back a little […] Read more

Crops

Southern Alberta crops struggle, but rest of province near five-year index

By GFM Network News August 8, 2018

[UPDATED: Aug. 10, 2018]* CNS Canada — Farmers in Alberta have just started harvest, but early yield reports are showing reductions in southern areas. Dryland crops in southern Alberta are projected to come in at 74.6 per cent of the five-year index, according to Alberta’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. Daniel Graham, manager of business risk […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Prairie pea market has more potential than lentils

By GFM Network News August 8, 2018

CNS Canada – With limited uses for lentils, one market analyst sees more potential for the pea market in Western Canada. “On lentils we are really restricted to the edible market. Peas are an incredibly versatile product, so we’re using peas both for human consumption and they are quite usable for feed,” said Marlene Boersch, […] Read more

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Canadian grain exports hit new record in 2017/18: CGC

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 3, 2018

CNS Canada – Total exports of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds hit a new record in 2017/18 (Aug/Jul), as sharp increases in wheat and barley more than made up for a decline in canola sales, according to the last weekly report from the Canadian Grain Commission for the recently finished crop year. Total exports of […] Read more

Barley, Crops

Dry weather not a problem for malt barley crop, so far

By GFM Network News August 3, 2018

CNS Canada – The prairie malting barley crop is faring reasonable well in the hot, dry weather, but crop watchers will have a better idea of protein content in a couple weeks. “We’ve yet to see what this crop is. I think we’re a little early yet. Indications are that it could be a little […] Read more

Barley, Markets

Feed barley defies expectations as prices rally

By GFM Network News August 2, 2018

CNS Canada – Feed barley prices have no business being where they are, based on supply-demand fundamentals, but that hasn’t quelled the rally. With prices for old crop sitting a premium over new crop, most in the industry expected old crop would gradually decline over summer and the two would eventually converge. But dry weather […] Read more

Foreign control in the oil and gas extraction sector is up more than 15 per cent since 2012. Photo: File

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Foreign control in Canadian ag sector still relatively low

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 2, 2018

CNS Canada – The percentage of foreign control, as a percentage of total assets, in the Canadian agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sector was 1.6 per cent in 2016, according to data recently released by Statistics Canada. While that’s up from 1.1 per cent in 2012, it compares with foreign control in all industries (excluding […] Read more

Crops

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

By GFM Network News January 5, 2018

CNS Canada – Farmers shouldn’t be too concerned yet that the recent Agrium, Potash Corp of Saskatchewan merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “(The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it. […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

Tag Archives Commodity News Service Canada

Early harvest pressures Prairie barley prices

New GM technique promises to speed new crop development

Corn and soybeans sitting firm ahead of USDA report

Southern Alberta crops struggle, but rest of province near five-year index

Prairie pea market has more potential than lentils

Canadian grain exports hit new record in 2017/18: CGC

Dry weather not a problem for malt barley crop, so far

Feed barley defies expectations as prices rally

Foreign control in Canadian ag sector still relatively low

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

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