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Grain World: Farm consolidation key to increasing yields

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 4, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — Consolidating farms — going from numerous small operations to fewer, but much larger, farms — is central to improving crop yields, according to grain industry observers Neil Townsend and Jason Newton. Townsend is the chief market analyst for FarmLink Marketing Solutions, while Newton is the chief economist and head of marketing […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Grain World: Opportunities great for Canadian pulses, AGT CEO says

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 3, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — To Murad Al-Katib, the opportunities for Canadian pulse exports to India are amazing, provided one correctly understands the context of India’s tariffs on pulses. Also, he said, those Canadian exporters must realize they need to switch from being solely dependent on commodities to adding value by shipping food and ingredients. “We […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Grain World: Geopolitics is back dominating global relations

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 29, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — Geopolitics is again shaping the international scene, including China, Jason Shapiro explained here Thursday at the Grain World conference. Geopolitics, he said, resulted in catastrophic global wars and generated very little peace for close to a century. Shapiro, director of analysis for Geopolitical Futures — an Austin, Tex.-based international risk analysis […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: FCC sees opportunities for exports

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) on Tuesday released a report titled Diversifying Canada’s agriculture exports, which included pulses and also looked at some of the pros and cons to diversifying Canada’s wheat, canola and soybeans. “Canada has done extremely well in establishing strong trade relations in a number of key markets thanks to a […] Read more

Markets, Pulses

India looking to import pulses

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm November 12, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm – Although India has prioritized producing their country’s own pulses self-sufficiently, unprecedented rainfall in October and November could turn the country back to relying on imports. A statement from the chairman of the Indian Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), Zaverchand Bheda, said as much as 50 per cent of the urad pulse crop was […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: India market likely pushing up prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 22, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Faced with weather concerns surrounding its pigeon pea crop, India has been very likely buying lentils from Canada, said MarketsFarm analyst Mike Jubinville. Over the last month, prices for large green lentils have jumped 25 per cent because of issues with pigeon peas, said Jubinville. Green lentils can be substituted for the pigeon […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Peas

Allegations of U.S. peas, lentils passed off as Canadian

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 8, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — A company in the United States has alleged there are green peas and green lentils being shipped from the U.S. to Canada, then exported to China and India as being Canadian. Jeff Van Pevenage, president of Columbia Grain at Portland, Ore., first made the allegations to the Western Producer in September. He said […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Global wheat production to decrease, USDA says

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — In the latest supply and demand report from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the global wheat forecast was revised downward due to difficult weather conditions. USDA has now projected 765.53 million tonnes of wheat to be produced in 2019-20, according to the department’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), released Thursday. That’s […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: India’s monsoons catch up, but crops still at risk

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm August 20, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Heavy rains in recent weeks have brought India’s monsoon rainfall back to normal levels after a slow, dry start to the season, according to reports out of the country. However, flooding and uneven distribution of moisture could still hurt crop production. A normal monsoon is defined as 96-104 per cent of the 50-year […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case

By Mayank Bhardwaj August 14, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi | Reuters — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two […] Read more

Chinese officials, Trump agree to tariff rollbacks

Maple Leaf lands ‘sustainability-linked’ credit

K+S considering sale of stakes in potash, salt businesses

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