Reading Time: 2 minutes * Warm November to help Russia’s winter grains – SovEcon * Says some farmers hold crops due to the falling rouble * SovEcon sees Nov. grain exports at 3.0-3.2 mln T Paris/Moscow / Reuters – Warm weather last week did not eliminate risks for Russia’s fragile winter grain plantings, said a Moscow-based agriculture consultancy SovEcon, warning […] Read more
Russia’s winter grains still at risk despite warm weather – analyst
Looking for a safe bet in an era of crop price predictions
Grain and oilseed prices are down across the board, but there soon could be some opportunities
Reading Time: 5 minutes Grain farmers across Canada are facing a stagflation-like, worst-of-both-worlds scenario heading into the fall of 2014 thanks to a badly timed combination of projected lower yields and weak prices. When Canadians were hit by stagflation in the late 1970s, they got both barrels with stagnant economic growth and high inflation rates. This crop year, farmers are the […] Read more
Managing production costs, charting a profit
Theory is great for textbooks. In real life, farmers like Stan Jeeves, need practical marketing programs, which they’re building for themselves
Reading Time: 5 minutes Stan Jeeves runs a mixed farm near Wolseley, a southeastern Saskatchewan community once named one of Canada’s prettiest towns by Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine. Jeeves takes a common-sense approach to selling grain. “I start with calculating my cost of production,” Jeeves says. “And then I know when I need cash flow.” From there, Jeeves looks for […] Read more
The Canadian-made bottleneck
The West’s grain paralysis was predictable. Canada has a Third World grain infrastructure, and it’s getting worse
Reading Time: 7 minutes From the headlines, it can feel like Canada’s grain transportation woes have suddenly got worse. In fact, they’ve been looming for decades, or even longer. Nor have its inadequacies come as any surprise to people in the know. For instance, in their paper “Grain Transportation in Canada — Deregulation,” transportation experts Joseph Monteiro and Gerald […] Read more
Grain drain
Winnipeg has long reigned over Western Canada’s grain trade — but can it keep the crown?
Reading Time: 5 minutes No one noticed,” author and historian Allan Levine says. “We’re talking about arguably the most important business institution in the city’s history, and it barely ranked notice in the city media.” For Levine, author of The exchange: 100 Years of Trading Grain in Winnipeg, it was the moment he realized the grain trade in Winnipeg […] Read more
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