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Klassen: Heavy rains slow feeder cattle movement

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Heavy rains over the past week in southern Alberta caused most major feedlot operators to halt purchases of replacement cattle. Therefore, the market had a softer tone despite lower volumes coming on the market. Cost per pound gain can increase by 10 to 15 per cent when pen conditions deteriorate, and it appears that feedlots […] Read more
RCMP in Alberta supplied this aerial photo of flooding at High River on Saturday (June 22) after water from the Highwood River had ”already receded substantially.”
Livestock, Markets, Weather

Cargill’s High River beef plant closed, not flooded

Reading Time: 2 minutes Massive flooding in the High River area of southern Alberta hasn’t yet directly hit one of the largest beef packing plants in the heartland of Western Canada’s beef industry. However, with many roads cut or washed out and water service disrupted, Cargill Meat Solutions’ cattle slaughter and beef processing plant, just north of the community […] Read more
General, Weather

Too early to assess flood’s impact on Alta. farmland: AgMin

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s still too early to assess the “full extent” of the impact on southern Alberta’s farmland in the wake of massive flooding that has led to the evacuation of several communities in the region and shut down the city of Calgary. The province’s agriculture minister, Verlyn Olson, said Friday on Twitter that the ag department […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

Lower wheat, higher canola acreage expected in StatsCan report

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canola acreage in Canada is expected to increase in the upcoming Statistics Canada report, to be released on Tuesday (June 25), while spring wheat acres are likely to be lowered, according to analysts. Some of the reasoning behind the expectations is that many observers thought StatsCan’s April estimates — 19.375 million acres for spring wheat […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. corn, soybeans fall on improving crop weather

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. corn and soybean futures fell for a second straight session on Friday on forecasts for optimal crop weather in the Midwest along with softening cash values for corn, traders said. Wheat futures settled modestly lower, but finished the week up 2.5 per cent, their biggest weekly rise since early May. At the Chicago Board […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Little sign of aster yellows so far

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Prairie pest specialists say that so far this year, there is little sign of the insect which spreads aster yellows, the disease which did widespread damage to canola last year. “South winds that carry aster leafhoppers from the southern U.S. arrived more than a month later in 2013 than in 2012. This is a factor […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Growers needed for Alta. pea root rot survey

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Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re an Alberta pea grower, you can help researchers learn more about fusarium root rot in peas by offering up your field for research. Traditionally, Red Deer and Lacombe have been the primary area for peas in the province, but things have changed in recent years — and about half of the pea acreage […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. wheat jumps on short-covering

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. wheat futures climbed nearly three per cent on Wednesday, their biggest daily rise since April, on buying and expectations of domestic demand for wheat as livestock feed, traders said. Corn and soybeans also advanced, led by new-crop contracts as forecasts for hotter, drier weather later this month in the U.S. Midwest raised concerns about […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. corn ends higher, led by new-crop contracts

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. corn futures rose on Tuesday, led by deferred contracts on technical buying and forecasts for potentially stressful hot weather in late June, traders said. “The thought of any high-pressure ridge — the market is very sensitive to that right now, after what happened last year,” said Sterling Smith, futures specialist with Citigroup in Chicago, […] Read more

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