Alana Vannahme

Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — Many Prairie producers with selectable barley sitting on their farms may find their chances limited for still having it selected as malting barley. Tougher malt specifications and a struggling Canadian Wheat Board barley export program are limiting those opportunities. And this year, thanks to good quality and high production, there is […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — A January strike at West Coast ports remains a possibility after negotiations over the weekend by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and two federally-appointed mediators failed to result in a new labour contract. About 425 ship and dock foremen from ports in British Columbia’s […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Workers at Canada’s West Coast ports have threatened to ring in the new year with a strike that could bring activity at the country’s busiest ports grinding to a halt. According to reports, workers at ports in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Prince Rupert have threatened to strike beginning […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Reports about possible Russian grain export support measures have attracted the attention of the Canadian Wheat Board and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, who say they are waiting for more information about program details. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) reports that Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Resource News International) — Grain and oilseed rail shipments travelling on Canadian Pacific Railway’s main line were rerouted following a train derailment near Grand Coulee, Sask., about 17 km west of Regina. The derailment, involving 30 potash cars and one locomotive, happened around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. “Grain and oilseed shipments continue unaffected as we were […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — Reduced demand in Canada for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about supply shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet, on the other side of the coin, there is the concern about whether or not […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Trade sources expect the next Statistics Canada 2008-09 crop production report, to be released Dec. 4, to confirm ideas that Prairie producers harvested a record amount of canola this fall. “The trade is generally thinking 12 million tonnes. Whether the amount is a couple hundred thousand tons above or below that […] Read more