Members of Quebec’s general farm organization plan to revoke permission for snowmobilers to use their land starting Monday, in protest over the province’s planned reforms to its farmland property tax […] Read more
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Quebec farmers to shut snowmobile trails in tax dispute
U.S. grains: Wheat hits highest since August
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures firmed on Thursday, with the most-active Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat contract hitting its highest in more than five months […] Read more
EU said set to approve ChemChina bid for Syngenta
Brussels | Reuters — ChemChina is set to secure conditional EU antitrust approval for its US$43 billion bid for Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, two people familiar with the […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn expected to move steady to lower
CNS Canada –– Despite a divergence in the two markets on the week, Chicago Board of Trade soybeans and corn are expected to shift back into step, moving sideways to […] Read more
U.S. grains: Soybeans rally on export demand, fund buying
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Wednesday on commodity fund buying at the start of a new month along with fresh export demand, analysts said. Wheat and […] Read more
Fire guts Saskatchewan town’s last elevator
Residents of Prelate, Sask. had a rude awakening Tuesday as the village’s last grain elevator, owned by Paterson Grain, was engulfed in flames. Calls to 9-1-1 started coming in at […] Read more
Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains
Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and […] Read more
Richardson buys eastern Saskatchewan input shop
Prairie grain firm Richardson Pioneer has added to its share of the eastern Saskatchewan crop input retail market with a deal for Crop First Agro. Financial terms aren’t being disclosed […] Read more
U.S. grains: Corn, wheat firm on bargain buying, U.S. dollar
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures closed higher on Tuesday on bargain-buying a day after both markets fell to two-week lows, and on a weaker dollar, which […] Read more
Brazil to open farmland, airlines to foreign buyers
Brasilia | Reuters — President Michel Temer will propose legislation to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines and agricultural land in Brazil as he strives to pull the economy […] Read more
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