Brent Harder

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — With a late harvest across Western Canada very probable, cash barley prices have been growing stronger. Toby Torkelson, general manager of RayGlen Commodities in Saskatoon, said barley prices have been moving in the right direction. “We’ve seen cash bids increasing on a fairly linear pattern,” he said. “I think that’s based […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) –– The cereal and oilseed harvest is just getting underway across Western Canada, but producers may want to prepare for it to be a lengthy process. According to Drew Lerner from World Weather Inc. in Kansas City, for the remainder of August, intermittent showers will be the name of the game. “I […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Resource News International) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted restrictions against imports of canola meal produced at a Bunge Ltd. canola plant in northeastern Saskatchewan. Deb Seidel, Bunge’s director of communications for North America, said in an email that the company’s plant at Nipawin, about 140 km east of Prince Albert, has […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Despite extremely wet conditions at the start of the growing season, Manitoba’s soybean crop is looking very strong as producers prepare to begin the harvest. “The crops are looking really good,” said Roxanne Roels, executive director for the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association at Carman. “They can handle water really well, and […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Resource News International) — The area seeded to winter wheat in Western Canada will increase from last year’s level, but limited quantities of seed will restrict the acreage jump, an industry official said. Seeded area in Western Canada was expected to hit 800,000 acres in the fall of 2010, up from 600,000 planted in the […] Read more