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Bunge names Syngenta CEO to board under deal with activist investors

Chicago | Reuters — Bunge Ltd. appointed the CEO of agrichemicals company Syngenta to its board on Wednesday as part of an agreement with activist investors D.E. Shaw and Continental Grain Co. The global grains trader named J. Erik Fyrwald as a director, as it navigates low crop prices and the trade war that has […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy left hanging on changing trade truce views

By GFM Network News 4 days ago

CNS Canada — The initial positive outlook U.S. futures markets had toward a 90-day truce in the U.S.-China trade war is fading, leaving traders with opposing views on where Chicago soybeans are heading. In an effort to resolve their countries’ trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to the truce […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Report finds more Canadians turning to plant-based proteins

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News 4 days ago

CNS Canada — Canadians are showing more and more interest in reducing meat consumption while increasing purchases of plant-based proteins, according to data from the latest Food Price Report. The report, prepared by the University of Guelph and Dalhousie University, predicted a 1.5 to 3.5 per cent increase overall in the average Canadian food bill […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: China sales hopes lift soy, wheat sinks on demand worry

By GFM Network News 4 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures inched higher for a fourth straight session on Wednesday in light trading as investors sought clues as to whether a truce between Washington and Beijing in their trade dispute would revive U.S. soybean sales to China. Corn, which could also benefit from renewed Chinese demand, ended little changed. […] Read more

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Trade, weather top of mind for 2019 acres

By Ashley Robinson, GFM Network News 5 days ago

CNS Canada — As Canadian farmers start thinking about what to plant next spring, global trade patterns and weather will play into decision making. “It’s very difficult to decide where this all is going. That obviously also has implications on where the futures prices go and what signals the farmers are taking from that,” said […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Rye prices as good as they’re going to get

By GFM Network News 5 days ago

CNS Canada — At more than $7 per bushel for rye in Western Canada, Cal Vandaele believes the price has topped off. “There’s been bids touching $8,” said Vandaele, of Vandaele Seed at Medora, Man., about 120 km southwest of Brandon, adding the price will decline over the winter. “When they start getting into these […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans edge upward, still await promised Chinese buying

By GFM Network News 5 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures edged higher on Tuesday on hopes that a U.S.-China trade war truce over the weekend would result in fresh Chinese demand for U.S. soybeans, although no deals have been confirmed. Corn also firmed slightly, following soybeans, while wheat ended mixed on light demand. At Saturday’s G-20 meeting in […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

AGT’s privatization to proceed

By Ashley Robinson, GFM Network News 6 days ago

CNS Canada — AGT Food and Ingredients has announced a definitive agreement to take the publicly-traded Saskatchewan pulse and durum processing and export firm private. If all conditions are met, the deal is expected to go through in the first quarter of 2019. The buyer group, including AGT CEO Murad Al-Katib, Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

December StatsCan report could vary from years past

By Ashley Robinson, GFM Network News 6 days ago

CNS Canada — After this fall’s long, drawn-out harvest, some analysts predict Statistics Canada’s final Production of Principal Field Crops numbers could vary from the usual pattern. StatsCan’s report, due out Thursday, is a “very uncertain” report “because that was probably one of the most bizarre falls we’ve ever had on the Prairies,” said Ken […] Read more

Crops

The U.S. ‘No. 1 weed problem’ heads north

Other weeds are higher priority for now, but be on the lookout for Palmer amaranth

By Julienne Isaacs December 3, 2018

It can grow two to three inches per day and reach eight feet tall. Each plant can produce more than a million seeds that can emerge right through the growing season. It has reduced yield up to 91 per cent in corn and 79 per cent in soybeans. It’s resistant to glyphosate and multiple other […] Read more

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs rebound

Fall rye’s popularity catching on Prairies

Altria to marry Canadian pot with big tobacco

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs rebound

Fall rye’s popularity catching on Prairies

Altria to marry Canadian pot with big tobacco

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Bunge names Syngenta CEO to board under deal with activist investors

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy left hanging on changing trade truce views

Report finds more Canadians turning to plant-based proteins

U.S. grains: China sales hopes lift soy, wheat sinks on demand worry

Trade, weather top of mind for 2019 acres

Rye prices as good as they’re going to get

U.S. grains: Soybeans edge upward, still await promised Chinese buying

AGT’s privatization to proceed

December StatsCan report could vary from years past

The U.S. ‘No. 1 weed problem’ heads north

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