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Crops

CPS to seek buyer for Sask. farm supply outlet

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A deal for Agrium’s Crop Production Services (CPS) to buy a crop input retail chain in north-central Saskatchewan will require the company to sell off a retail outlet and a pair of its storage sites. The federal Competition Bureau on Monday announced it has an agreement with CPS over its planned deal to buy six […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

U.S. EPA pulls back report saying glyphosate not likely carcinogenic

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pulled a report offline that concluded glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, saying the document was inadvertently published and the agency had not finished its review of the chemical, a key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides. The 86-page report, seen by […] Read more
Ralph Eichler. (File photo by Dave Bedard)
Livestock

Tories’ ex-ag critic named Manitoba ag minister

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Manitoba’s incoming Progressive Conservative government has tapped one of its former critics on the agriculture and food file as its new minister of agriculture. Ralph Eichler, the MLA for the Interlake-area constituency of Lakeside since 2003, was sworn in Tuesday along with Premier Brian Pallister and 11 other cabinet ministers at Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for […] Read more
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Crops, Weather

Seeding underway in southern Alberta

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Alberta farmers are in the early stages of seeding this year’s crop, with operations expected to become more widespread over the next few weeks. “Southern Alberta is the most advanced, and (farmers) have been plugging away for as long as two weeks in some areas,” said Mark Cutts, a crop specialist with […] Read more
Canola seed, oil and meal. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Weekly canola crush hits yearly low

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Canada’s weekly canola crush dropped sharply over the week ended Wednesday, but some of the decline is likely tied to an overstatement of what was processed the previous week. The weekly canola crush came in at only 110,909 tonnes, which compares with 180,078 tonnes the previous week, according to data from the […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

Cost index for railways’ grain revenue cap gets boost

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The loonie’s decline since last year has led federal regulators to dial up the index guiding how much money Canada’s big two railways get to keep from hauling Prairie grain. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) announced Friday it will raise its volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) by 4.8 per cent, to 1.3275, for the 2016-17 […] Read more
Western bumblebee. (Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Reuters

In risks to bees, study finds not all neonics equal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters — A group of chemical insecticides known as neonicotinoids that have been banned in Europe due to fears about potential harm to bees have been found in new research to have very differential risks for bumblebees. Scientists who conducted the research said their findings showed that at least one neonicotinoid in the […] Read more
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Livestock, Reuters

Canada may delay foreign worker limits as packers, farms face squeeze

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada may delay implementing new restrictions on the use of foreign workers as farmers and meat processors warn of severe labour shortages in one of the world’s biggest agricultural exporters, the employment minister said. Employers have reported difficulty finding workers despite a 7.1 per cent unemployment rate. Many Canadians resist jobs […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Still room higher for canola

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, with the biggest gains in the front months. While the market ran into some resistance on Wednesday, there is still more room to the upside from both a chart and fundamental perspective. “We’re still in an upward trend; we haven’t […] Read more

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