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Arrests made in Quebec maple syrup heist

Reading Time: 3 minutes Updated, Dec. 18 — This summer’s disappearance of six million pounds of Quebec maple syrup from the province’s “strategic reserve” has led to charges against three people, with more arrests pending. Quebec’s provincial police, la Surete du Quebec, said Richard Vallieres of Loretteville, Avik Caron of St. Wenceslas and an unnamed third person arrested will […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Dry Ont., Que. farms needing feed get AgriRecovery

Reading Time: 2 minutes Livestock producers in parched regions of Ontario and Quebec will get AgriRecovery funding to help cover the costs of hauling feed to their animals or vice-versa. The federal and Ontario government on Friday announced a $2.4 million AgriRecovery budget for what’s dubbed the Ontario Forage and Livestock Transportation Assistance Initiative. For producers in designated drought […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

Churchill port slightly less busy as grain monopoly ends

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s only Arctic port, at Churchill, Man., saw slightly reduced grain shipments in 2012 as a government subsidy to shippers partly offset a change in how western grain is marketed. The port handled 432,434 tonnes of grain, mostly wheat and durum, but also barley and canola, down about four per cent from the 10-year average […] Read more
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U.S. wheat at five-month low as USDA raises supply forecasts

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. wheat futures fell to a five-month low on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecasts for U.S. and global wheat inventories to levels that topped trade expectations. Wheat’s 3.2 per cent plunge pulled down corn and soybeans, with corn hitting a three-week low. At the Chicago Board of Trade, benchmark March […] Read more
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Record-high soybean crop forging path to China

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian soybeans are forging a path to China, the world’s top buyer, as Canada’s relatively small production creeps across the country’s western growing belt and establishes a modest niche in global trade in the crop. Total Canadian soybean exports amounted to 868,300 tonnes from August through October — the first three months of the 2012-13 […] Read more
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StatsCan survey finds canola supplies remain tight

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian canola production in the 2012-13 crop year was smaller than most industry participants had been anticipating and will result in an "astoundingly" tight ending stocks situation, industry officials said in reaction to Statistics Canada’s production survey released Wednesday. Many thought the government agency would raise its canola production forecast from the October estimate, "but […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. corn, wheat fall, but late rally pushes soy higher

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures fell on Tuesday amid slumping demand for U.S. exports, and wheat also weakened to extend a losing streak on technical selling. Yet soybean futures closed higher, after trading in negative territory for much of the day on improving weather in key growing areas of Brazil. The soy market reversed late in the […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

Ont. vineyards expect major demand for 2012 crush

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario’s record grape harvest, coming in the midst of an expected global wine shortage, is seen providing the province’s growers an "unprecedented opportunity" to expand their exports. The province’s 2012 grape harvest, according to data released Friday from Grape Growers of Ontario, is 65,800 tonnes, with farm gate value of $88.3 million, up from 64,500 […] Read more
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Jury out on StatsCan canola production estimate

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The jury is still out on whether the last Canadian production survey of 2012 will reveal smaller or larger canola supplies than what the early October report did, based on feedback from the industry. The report, scheduled to be released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, will finalize Canada’s 2012 grain and oilseed production. The main […] Read more

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