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Canola shipments boost Thunder Bay port activity

By MarketsFarm October 4, 2019

Reading Time: 1 minute MarketsFarm — Cargo movement through the Port of Thunder Bay is running ahead of the previous year’s pace, with some of the extra movement tied to increased canola exports to Europe, according to the latest data from the port authority. Total cargo movement in September of 1.1 million tonnes compares with the 919,386 tonnes reported […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

JBS USA to produce pork without ractopamine

By Tom Polansek October 4, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — JBS USA will remove a growth drug banned by Beijing from its U.S. hog supply, the company said on Friday, accelerating the competition for pork exports as China grapples with a devastating pig disease. The meat packer’s move away from the drug ractopamine, a feed additive, shows how companies are maneuvering […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle trade bullish on potential exports to Japan

By P.J. Huffstutter September 27, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live and feeder cattle futures on Friday surged to their highest prices seen in nearly a month, as the cash market began to firm and traders grew more bullish about export demands after the U.S. and Japan signed a limited trade deal this week. The first-phase deal would open up […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy futures end near unchanged

By Tom Polansek September 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures finished near unchanged on Thursday after initially rising on hopes for further Chinese purchases, traders said. China, the world’s largest soybean importer, will buy about six million tonnes of soy from the United States before trade talks in early October, said a chief analyst at Shanghai JC Intelligence […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall on big U.S. supply

By Tom Polansek September 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures retreated on Thursday under pressure from large supplies and as some traders were disappointed with the size of pork export sales confirmed to China, analysts said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the world’s biggest pork consumer and hog producer bought 3,375 tonnes of pork from Sept. […] Read more

Crops

AAFC raises 2019-20 canola, wheat ending stocks

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm September 23, 2019

Reading Time: 1 minute MarketsFarm — Canadian ending stocks of canola and wheat will be larger than earlier thought, according to updated supply/demand tables Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released late Friday. AAFC raised its canola ending stocks estimate for 2019-20 to a record 4.5 million tonnes, up from the August estimate of 3.775 million and the upwardly-revised 2018-19 level […] Read more

General, Hogs, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China to exempt U.S. pork, soybeans from additional tariffs

By Andrew Galbraith September 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shanghai | Reuters — China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on U.S. goods, including pork and soybeans, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-U.S. tensions before a new round of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. The United States and China have both […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains on big Chinese purchase

By Karl Plume September 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures hit a six-week high on Friday as China’s first large purchase of U.S. beans in months and easing of some duties on U.S. exports fuelled hopes of a detente in the tariff war between Washington and Beijing. Corn also firmed as signs of a U.S.-China trade thaw sparked […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Weather

As harvest drags on, malt barley quality uncertain

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm September 11, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The quality of Canada’s 2019-20 barley crop remains to be seen, as cool and wet harvest conditions across much of the Prairies are raising concerns over how much will meet malt specifications. “We’ll lose a lot of malting barley this year, because of the weather,” said Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Worst-case no-deal Brexit plan warns of food shortages

By Reuters September 11, 2019

Reading Time: 1 minute London | Reuters — The British government’s plans for a no-deal Brexit warn of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes, affecting the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods, and say that protests and counter-protests will take place across the country, accompanied by a possible rise in public disorder. The “Operation Yellowhammer” worst-case assumptions […] Read more

Pot producer CannTrust to destroy $77M in plants, inventory

Trump’s hailing of Chinese farm purchases seen as ‘meaningless’

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb on weather worries

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