Reading Time: 2 minutes Crop Trust, which works to preserve crop bio-diversity, needs to more than double its $300 million endowment fund to be able to support seed banks across the world, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz said.
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Crop Trust seeks more funding to protect global seed diversity
Climate change, surge of conflict makes crop seed preservation more urgent, organization says
U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures rally on bargain buying, geopolitical tensions
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn and soybean prices rose on Friday as heightened geopolitical tensions spurred a round of bargain buying after the benchmark contracts in both markets fell to their lowest levels in more than six weeks, traders said.
AAFC makes a few tweaks in Apr S&D report
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made a small amount of changes in its April supply and disposition report released on Apr. 19. Of the changes made, nearly all were slight adjustments to its pulse and special crop numbers.
Feed Grain Weekly: Prices in holding pattern for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes With farmers across Western Canada getting ready to plant their crops or they have already made a few rounds in the field, feed grain prices across the Prairies remained in a holding pattern, according to Jerry Klassen of Resilient Capital in Winnipeg, Man.
Alberta municipalities, farmers agree to cut water use as drought persists
Reading Time: 2 minutes Municipalities and irrigation districts in Alberta have agreed to use less water this summer to combat a severe ongoing drought, the provincial government said on Friday.
China set for bumper harvests of grains and oilseeds, ministry says
Reading Time: < 1 minute China is set for another year of bumper harvest of grains and oilseeds, helped by expanded planting of winter wheat and rapeseed and healthy growth of seedlings, the country's agriculture ministry said on Friday.
USDA, Conab widely differ on Brazil soybeans
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a rather wide difference between the United States Department of Agriculture and its Brazil counterpart, Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) when it comes to Brazil soybeans.
U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on South American supply, dry weather supports wheat
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean and corn futures closed lower on Thursday after touching six-week lows, with both markets facing pressure from hefty South American supplies, traders said.
Rail strike looms as CN, CPKC workers take action to a vote
Any labour disruption could be weeks away, but the grain sector is still wary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) are in the middle of a strike vote. The vote comes after three collective agreements, covering CN and CPKC engineers and conductors as well as rail traffic controllers at CPCK, expired December 31.
Federal budget draws mixed reaction from Canadian ag groups
Livestock tax deferral, capital gains exemption praised; overall lack of investment in agriculture noted
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 2024 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon has drawn mixed reactions from ag groups across Canada. While some have praised aspects of the plan, others have condemned the lack of attention paid to agriculture and farmers.