Reading Time: 2 minutes s the harvesting of fall crops in Alberta exceeded the halfway point, the combining of the province’s spring cereals was just beginning, according to the latest Alberta crop report.
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Combines making their rounds in Alberta
Agriculture groups campaign against rail strike
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pulse Canada has organized a letter writing campaign to push the government to halt the looming labour stoppage at Canada's railways.
U.S. livestock: cattle futures dip on stronger dollar, slow cash trade
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live and feeder cattle futures eased on Thursday, as generally quiet cash market and a strengthening U.S. dollar left cattle futures in a range-bound trade, traders said.
U.S. grains: Wheat loses overnight rally; soybeans and corn futures dip
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures ended lower on Thursday as cheap Black Sea exports kept weighing on the market, which had risen overnight on a rally sparked by a Russian attack on Ukrainian port infrastructure.
Saskatchewan harvest underway amid hot and dry weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pasture conditions in much of Saskatchewan were diminishing due to the hot and dry conditions. While sporadic rainfall in north and east parts of the province will benefit later seeded crops as they mature, but came too late for early seeded crops.
U.S. grains: Soybeans firm after bouncing back from latest four-year low
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago soybeans rose on Wednesday, bouncing back on technical trading after hitting another four-year low, according to analysts.
CBOT Weekly: Conditions for U.S. soybeans, corn ‘just ideal’
Reading Time: < 1 minute With rain forecast for most of the United States Corn Belt, the prospects for larger than expected soybean and corn crops is pretty much certain, according to broker Scott Capinegro of AgMarket Inc. in Chicago.
Industry and shippers brace for Canada rail stoppage, fear ‘catastrophe’
Reading Time: 3 minutes North American industry groups and shippers are bracing for an unprecedented simultaneous stoppage at both of Canada's main railway companies that could inflict billions of dollars' worth of economic damage.
ICE canola weekly: Dropping with soy complex
Reading Time: < 1 minute The ICE Futures canola market fell sharply lower during the week ended Aug. 14, hitting its lowest levels since 2020 as rising soybean production estimates out of the United States weighed on values.
Agriculture groups redouble pressure on governments, railways stop strike or lockout
Reading Time: 2 minutes Producer and agriculture groups across Canada launched a ‘Stop the Strike’ writing campaign asking the federal ministers of agriculture and labour to use all their means to stop rail workers from walking off the job.