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Ceres lands tenant for Niagara-area grain elevator

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A former Robin Hood flour mill repurposed as an export grain elevator in the Niagara region will devote the bulk of its capacity to a new tenant starting next summer. Minneapolis-based Ceres Global Ag Corp. announced Tuesday it has a new long-term storage and handling agreement in place with London Agricultural Commodities (LAC). The agreement […] Read more
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Barley, Crops, Markets

Canada’s malt barley courts two different buyers

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The rising North American craft beer sector and strong demand out of China are both good news stories for Canada’s malt barley sector. However, those two customers have different needs which can also create some challenges, said industry officials speaking Tuesday at the annual Grain World conference in Winnipeg. Lorelle Selinger, North […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Prairie wheat bids down with U.S. futures

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Wheat bids in Western Canada were lower for the week ended Nov. 8, following the lead of dropping United States futures markets. Average Canada Western Red Spring (13.5% CWRS) wheat prices were down slightly, falling by less than a dollar to C$2 per tonne, according to price quotes from a cross-section of […] Read more
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Barley, Corn, Crops, Finishers

Pre-booked corn pushing barley and wheat out of Alberta feedlots

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Cattle in “feedlot alley” in Lethbridge, Alta., won’t be seeing corn leave their diets any time soon, according to one feed grain buyer. “The marketplace booked up a fair bit of corn in advance of it, so through September, December and even out into March. So that’s all been done, that corn […] Read more
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Fair weather welcome for harvest wrap-up in Sask.

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Thanks to good weather during the last half of October 99 per cent of Saskatchewan’s crop has been harvested according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s final Crop Report of 2018. However, snow and rain in early November has delayed the harvest of the remaining crops such as flax and oats, but producers hope to […] Read more
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Alberta harvest nearing completion

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Alberta farmers made significant harvest progress in late-October, with nearly 95 per cent of crops off the field as of Oct. 30, according to the final crop report of the season from Alberta Agriculture. On a crop-by-crop basis, spring wheat was 96.1 per cent harvested, durum 95.4 per cent, barley 95.6 per […] Read more
Soybeans getting one step closer to the bin in Western Manitoba in October 2018. Photo: Greg Berg
Crops, Weather

Weather weighed on 2018 Manitoba crop year

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Conditions were variable across Manitoba throughout the 2018 growing season, according to the provincial crop report released Oct. 29. As of Oct. 29, provincially 97 per cent of the total crop was harvested. Crops completely finished include winter wheat, fall rye, field pea and dry bean. The spring wheat, barley, oat and […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Drought to cut east Australia crop output in half from 20-year average

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Melbourne | Reuters – Drought is expected to cut eastern Australia’s crop production this year to less than half the average over the past 20 years, with New South Wales to be worst hit, the country’s agricultural commodities forecaster said on Friday. While some regions are facing the worst conditions in memory, the Australian Bureau […] Read more

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