Dwayne Klassen

(Resource News International) — The Flax Council of Canada, flaxseed exporters and the Canadian Grain Commission have been working extremely hard to identify the source of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) found in a shipment of the commodity to Europe, according to a council official. The European Union has a zero-tolerance policy for GMOs. The discovery […] Read more

(Resource News International) — The updated grain and oilseed production survey from Statistics Canada, scheduled to be released Friday (Oct. 2), is expected to show a general increase in the size of all crops, according to market participants. However, the market participants wondered aloud, will the government agency’s survey results include the full brunt of […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for flaxseed in Western Canada have been steadily declining as European concerns that Canada’s crop contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continue to gather speed. “Right now, European interests have quarantined all Canadian flaxseed shipments, which has had a real detrimental impact on the cash value,” said Ben Friesen of […] Read more

(Resource News International) — The sunflower harvest in Western Canada has begun and while prices for the oil varieties of sunflowers may be easing, values for confectionary are expected to climb. “The sunflower crop in the main producing province of Manitoba is the furthest ahead in the southwest region, where producers have already begun the […] Read more

(Resource News International) — The 850,000-tonne per year canola processing plant built by Louis Dreyfus Canada and Mitsui Canada near Yorkton, Sask. is expected to start operations by mid-November, an official with LDM Foods confirmed. Early plans had called for the facility to be operational by this month. The facility, once fully operational, is expected […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Feed barley bids in Western Canada have moved to some pretty depressed levels, but values should begin to stabilize at these lows. “There is little reason to believe that feed barley values are going to experience any kind of rally, but they should at least hold these flat levels in the […] Read more

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Wheat Board had been taking a cautious approach to making sales of wheat and barley for 2009-10 due to the lateness of the Prairie harvest, but the weather during the past two weeks has changed things significantly. “The weather over the past two weeks has been nothing less than […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Larger than anticipated 2008-09 supplies of feed barley in Western Canada, reduced demand for the commodity from feedlots and a sharp reduction in domestic prices are expected to result in more of Canada’s feed-quality barley being available for export on the world export market during 2009-10. “There were definitely large supplies […] Read more

(Resource News International) — A late spring and the late development of canola crops will result in a significant decline in the area that will be seeded to winter wheat in Western Canada in the fall of 2009, according to industry participants. Western Canadian producers seeded 1.245 million acres to winter wheat in the fall […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Grain and oilseed crops across much of Alberta benefited from recent warm temperatures, but more of those weather conditions are required in order to help speed up the maturity rate, according to a provincial crop specialist. “Producers in the province are starting to think it’s a bit of a losing battle […] Read more