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Canadian canola area likely above earlier projection

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 26, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Canadian farmers likely seeded more canola in 2018 than initial expectations, but industry participants generally expect to see only minor adjustments when Statistics Canada releases its latest acreage estimates on Friday. “Our idea is that the canola seeded area number is higher than initially reported,” said Jon Driedger of FarmLink Marketing Solutions. […] Read more

Namdaemun, the “Great Southern Gate” in the walls that once surrounded the city of Seoul. This photo was taken before a 2008 fire damaged the gate’s wooden structure, which was restored by May 2013. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

South Korea lifts suspension on Canadian wheat sales

By Reuters June 26, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Seoul | Reuters — South Korea’s food ministry on Tuesday said it had lifted a temporary suspension on sales of Canadian wheat as it had not discovered any unapproved genetically modified strains during tests on imports. South Korea suspended sales of Canadian wheat last week after Canada announced the discovery in mid-2017 of an unapproved […] Read more

Whether you were for it or against, a proper study has never done to measure the impact of the end of the Canadian Wheat Board.

Cereals, Guide Business

Why don’t we know?

Whether you were in favour of changing the CWB or against it, isn’t it time we get clear, unbiased answers about what the impact has been?

By Gerald Pilger June 19, 2018

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ask any western grain farmer what is significant about August 1, 2012, and most will tell you it was the day the federal government eliminated the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly on the sale and export of wheat and barley from Western Canada. Some farmers will refer to it as the “grain marketing freedom day.” Others […] Read more

Fresh bread in Egypt. (Goldream/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Top court in Egypt permits wheat with trace ergot

By Reuters May 28, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s top administrative court has ruled that the country should accept wheat with marginal levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a local newspapers said on Sunday, freezing a lower court order to ban the fungus entirely which had vexed traders. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, baffled grain markets when […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. alarmed by strike on ship delivering wheat to Yemen

By Reuters May 25, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — The United States said on Friday it was “alarmed” by a Houthi missile strike on a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen this month and urged the Shi’ite group to work with the United Nations to alleviate Yemenis’ suffering. The Turkish-flagged Ince Inebolu bulk carrier was damaged by an explosion on […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

U.S. wheat stocks bigger than expected, trade watching weather

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 10, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — A larger-than-expected wheat ending stocks forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture weighed on the country’s wheat futures Thursday, with attention now squarely on weather conditions. The government agency pegged wheat carryout for the upcoming 2018-19 marketing year at 955 million bushels, about 30 million above average trade guesses. Total wheat production […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

USDA sees U.S. corn, soy, wheat supplies falling in 2018-19

By Mark Weinraub May 10, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — U.S. soybean supplies are seen falling in the upcoming marketing year as domestic usage and exports are expected to remain strong even as production eases, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday. Domestic corn and wheat stocks are also expected to drop due to smaller harvests, according to the government’s monthly […] Read more

Guide Business

Out-competed

Again, the Australians are showing us how we’d market our crops if we had our act together

By Gerald Pilger April 25, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes Is the Canadian grains sector being out-marketed globally? This is a question that has nagged me since February 16, the date the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre released new information brochures for Australian wheat, barley, oats, canola and pulses. “These publications are aimed at international purchasers of Australian grain,” the association (AEGIC) said in its […] Read more

If you could convince wheat or barley to form nodules like these, you might be able to skip your annual nitrogen purchase.

Cereals, Crops

The ‘Holy Grail’ in cereal technology

Can wheat and barley really be taught to act like pulses, and produce their own fertilizer?

By Ron Friesen April 25, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes A new research project funded by the Alberta Wheat Commission and the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission will try to answer a question that has bedevilled plant scientists for years: can cereal crops be made to fix their own nitrogen the way legumes do? The AWC is spending $100,000 to have Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canada trade deficit jumps as rail problems cut grain exports

By David Ljunggren April 5, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s trade deficit in February jumped to $2.69 billion from $1.94 billion in January as rail transport problems slashed exports of wheat and canola, Statistics Canada said on Thursday. The deficit was larger than the $2 billion shortfall predicted by analysts in a Reuters poll. Canada has only recorded two monthly […] Read more

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Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea found on a southern Alberta farm

Indonesia opens market to Canadian pork, expands beef access

IGC February report adjusts world data

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