Food manufacturer Dr. Oetker Canada has announced construction of its first North American frozen pizza production facility in London. An Ontario government release said the expansion project will help the company source over 24 million pounds of high-quality ingredients from Ontario farmers and food processors and produce about 50 million frozen pizzas per year for […] Read more
Frozen pizza plant announced for London
China canola agreement extended
Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announced that China has agreed to continue an agreement to accept imports of Canadian canola. In 2009, exports of Canadian canola seed to China were affected by import restrictions related to the fungal disease blackleg, but an interim agreement was reached to allow imports to continue while both sides […] Read more
Klassen – extensive heat melts feeder cattle market
Sweltering heat has slowed beef consumption on the restaurant and retail level. Top Alberta slaughter prices were reported at $97/cwt, down $7/cwt to $10/cwt from last week with many feedlots holding back on sales. U.S. fed prices were also $3 softer with cattle moving at $108/cwt in Kansas.A healthy group of professionally backgrounded exotic heifers[...]
Manitoba crop reports available here
Manitoba Agriculture has released its weekly crop report, crop production report and crop weather report. Due to a publication ban in advance of an October election, these reports cannot be posted on the government website but are available here.
Wheat board announces 2011-12 initials
The Canadian Wheat Board initial payments for the crop year beginning Aug. 1 are taking a sharp jump higher from where they were set a year ago. The payment for No. 1 CWRS 12.5 per cent protein starts off the new year at $208 per tonne, up from $128 per tonne as of Aug. 1,[...]
Cattle stress – nighttime heat is also a threat
In his regular weekly BeefTalk column, North Dakota State Extension Service beef specialist Kris Ringwall notes the current North American heat wave combined wth high humidity and relatively calm winds have caused considerable loss of life among cattle. He warns that this is not just a problem with feedlot cattle and that night temperatures which […] Read more
Alberta – good news on bugs, bad on disease
In his latest Call of the Land weekly interview, Alberta Agriculture pest specialist Scott Meers has mostly good news on insect pressure in the province. Meers says four weeks into the six-week monitoring period for bertha armyworms, trap counts are “really low” with one exception in the Fort Vermilion area. He cautions that there could […] Read more
Bunge eyes Western Canada after end of CWB monopoly
Bunge Ltd. welcomes Ottawa’s decision to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board and is preparing to jump into Prairie grain handling, according to a story in the July 20 Globe and Mail.In an interview while visiting Winnipeg, Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told the Globe that “The concept (of a board) is brilliant, but it’s how[...]
CBOT corn limit likely to move to 40 cents a bushel
The CME Group made it clear at a meeting on Tuesday that the exchange would go ahead with plans to raise the daily trading limits on corn futures despite strong opposition from many grain-handling companies.The CME's request to raise the trading limit to 40 cents from the current 30 cents is under review by the[...]
Pioneer gets approval of single-bag refuge protection
Pioneer Hi-Bred says it has received Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) approval of its Optimum AcreMax insect protection, which integrates insect control and refuge needs in a single bag. Optimum AcreMax bags contain 95 per cent of a Pioneer hybrid with Herculex 1 insect protection plus YieldGard corn borer protection and five per cent of a[...]
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