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Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

By GFM Network News April 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Prices of Canadian farmland were seen rising in 2017, with most sales happening in the first half of 2017 before interest rate increases and the drought in Western Canada hit. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report released Monday by Farm Credit Canada (FCC), based on 90 per cent of farmland […] Read more

Southern Ontario’s farmland prices have jumped, despite stagnant crop prices. (John Greig photo)

Crops, Markets

Southern Ontario median farmland price jumps in 2017

By GFM Network News February 22, 2018

The threat of interest rate increases hasn’t dampened the prices southern Ontario farmers are paying for land. The annual Valco study of land values showed an increase in value of 9.76 per cent for farmland sold in 2017 over 2016. This increase is the largest since 2013. The median price for land in the surveyed […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola rangebound at harvest time

By GFM Network News September 6, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures remain stuck in a rather narrow range, with seasonal harvest pressure weighing on the one side while solid demand provides support on the other side. “We’ve been in a sideways trading environment for 2-1/2 years, and I don’t see that changing,” said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada. […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

The inevitable rise in interest rates

Guarding Wealth: Interest rates are going to have to rise sooner than later. The trick will be in the timing

By Andrew Allentuck November 27, 2015

It is inevitable that interest rates will rise, but when that will happen, nobody knows. On Sept. 17, the U.S. Federal reserve announced that, yet again, the inevitable increase would be postponed, perhaps to December, perhaps beyond. Until then, the Fed will keep interest rates at the emergency level that has prevailed for half a […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce off six-year-low on bargain buying

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 25, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — U.S. soybeans rebounded on Tuesday off a more than six-year low, helped by China’s decision to cut interest rates, although fears of a cooling economy in the world’s largest buyer of the oilseed kept gains in check. Bargain buying and a bounce in other commodities, such as crude oil, nudged soybeans […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Why should you invest in bonds?

Bonds no longer offer interest above dividend rates,  but they are an insurance policy for market mayhem

By Andrew Allentuck January 15, 2015

Readers often ask why and how one should buy bonds. The reason used to be to get interest at a rate above what stocks pay as dividends. That does not work anymore, for bank stocks and big telecoms, for example, pay four to five per cent. Ten-year Government of Canada bonds pay 2.5 per cent. […] Read more

Canadian Pork Council meets with U.S. and Mexican counterparts

U.S. livestock: New contract highs for live cattle

CBOT Weekly: Grain prices showing weakness

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Canadian Pork Council meets with U.S. and Mexican counterparts

U.S. livestock: New contract highs for live cattle

CBOT Weekly: Grain prices showing weakness

Tag Archives interest rates

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

Southern Ontario median farmland price jumps in 2017

ICE weekly outlook: Canola rangebound at harvest time

The inevitable rise in interest rates

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce off six-year-low on bargain buying

Why should you invest in bonds?

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