Crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute Movement in feed grain prices remained largely at a standstill across Western Canada due to the looming threat of tariffs by the Trump administration, said Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton.
Feed Grains Weekly: Tariffs ‘an unknown situation’ says broker
Barley, wheat prices largely unchanged
ICE Weekly: Tariff threats linger over canola market
Trump tariffs could sink canola prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tariff threats from United States President Donald Trump have the canola market on edge.
Upswings in most December grain deliveries
Declines in rye, flax
Reading Time: < 1 minute Deliveries of major grains increased from December to December, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Jan. 29.
December canola crush pushes higher
Canola crush exceeds 1 million tonnes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Data released by Statistics Canada on Jan. 29 showed the December crush of canola and soybeans came in higher than a year ago.
Pulse Weekly: Supply and demand ‘sideways’ says broker
‘If prices move up, they move up big time, but they won’t drop overnight’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lentil prices on the Canadian Prairies were steady in late-January, which a broker noted is typical for this time of year. Marcos Mosnaim of Prairie IX said the forces of supply and demand are standing pat, leading to no price fluctuations.
Buenos Aires desk cuts Argentine corn, bumps up wheat
Crops affected differently by weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes As Argentina continues to face dry conditions, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Buenos Aires cut their estimate for the country's 2024/25 corn crop. Meanwhile the attaché bumped up their call on the Argentine wheat harvest, which was recently completed.
U.S. threatening Canada’s canola oil industry
Chinese used cooking oil another threat
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's canola oil industry is facing two threats from the United States, said Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Canadian Oilseed Processors Association.
Frigid weather likely damaged US winter wheat crop, meteorologist says
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frigid temperatures this week likely killed as much as 15 per cent of the winter wheat crop in parts of the U.S. Plains and Midwest, the Commodity Weather Group said on Friday, in an ominous sign for U.S. wheat production.
Prairie spring wheat rise with U.S. futures
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Jan. 23, as a rally in the United States futures provided support.
Researchers scramble to understand verticillium in Canada
Disease is a relative newcomer to Canada and has been the subject of little research globally
Reading Time: 2 minutes Justine Cornelson of BrettYoung Seeds says verticillium is one reason Manitoba saw disappointing canola yields last year. The disease needs to be the subject of more research, since little has been done to date.
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