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Canola, Crops

Canola crush running close to full capacity

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Canadian canola processors are running at close to full capacity, with a near record weekly crush posted during the week ended Wednesday. The weekly canola crush, during the week ending Sept. 21, hit 190,623 tonnes — the second largest on record, according to Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) data. Crushers were operating […] Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in August 2016. (PM.gc.ca)
Canola, Crops, Reuters

China, Canada resolve canola dispute until 2020

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada and China have agreed on a solution to a trade dispute over $2 billion worth of annual canola sales, lasting to 2020, leaders of the two countries said on Thursday. The solution is “predictable, science-based and stable,” ensuring access for Canadian shipments to China, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said […] Read more
Taste-testing during a Canadian Beef Advantage Seminar in Shanghai in 2013. (Canada Beef via YouTube)
Beef Cattle, Canola, Livestock

China now taking Canadian bone-in beef

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Reading Time: 2 minutes China’s premier has announced the country will accept bone-in Canadian beef from cattle under 30 months of age (UTMs) starting today, according to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. The expanded access is expected to add another $10 million per year in exports to China in the short term, the CCA said, given that Canada’s beef cattle […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola crop size watched closely

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, although prices remain rangebound overall as market participants continue to try and get a better handle on the size of this year’s Canadian crop. While seasonal harvest pressure may be tempering the upside potential, that selling has not been as […] Read more
The Northern Lights over Winnipeg as seen from the International Space Station in January 2012. (NASA.gov)
Crops, Weather

Grain trade still wary of satellite-based StatsCan estimates

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s second attempt at using satellite imagery to determine the size of the country’s crops is in line with trade guesses when it comes to canola — but market participants are still taking the new methodology with a grain of salt. The model-based principal field crop estimates, released Tuesday, are calculated […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Statistics data safe, official says, after agency head quits

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Ottawa | Reuters — Statistics Canada data is safely stored and outsiders have no chance of accessing it, a senior official said on Monday after the chief statistician quit in protest over concerns about the agency’s independence. Canada’s Liberal government, which took power last November, is trying to resolve a number of major technological problems […] Read more
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Crops

Viterra plans new elevator in eastern Saskatchewan

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Glencore’s Prairie grain handling arm Viterra plans to boost its throughput capacity in east-central Saskatchewan with a new elevator at Wadena. Wadena, served by both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways (CN, CP), already has a smaller Viterra elevator on each line. The two former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevators have capacity for 5,020 and 4,000 […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Trump biofuel proposals echo those of backer Icahn

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Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters — Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to weigh into a debate over a controversial U.S. biofuels program with a proposal that would back the position of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, one of his wealthiest backers. In a factsheet on economic policy, the Trump campaign slammed a system of […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Bayer betting billions farmers will back linked-up supplies

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer’s US$66 billion purchase of Monsanto amounts to a long-term bet that farmers will grow to trust combinations of seeds and pesticides rather than continue to pick from ranges of separate products. In the short term, the German drugs and chemicals firm hopes to benefit from a marketing and sales force […] Read more
Southwestern Saskatchewan MP David Anderson (centre), shown here last year visiting Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s research facility at Swift Current, is the federal Tories’ new agriculture critic. (DavidAnderson.ca)
Crops

Anderson named federal Tories’ ag critic in shuffle

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A vocal critic of the former Canadian Wheat Board single marketing desk for Prairie wheat and barley is now the lead agriculture critic in Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. David Anderson, the MP for the southwestern Saskatchewan riding of Cypress Hills-Grasslands since 2000, was named Thursday as the Conservatives’ critic for agriculture and agri-food by interim Tory […] Read more

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