Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $3 higher last week while U.S. prices jumped $4 to $8. Auction market volumes were extremely light while most cattle buyers started their holiday season. It's that time of year when quality feeder cattle are hard to find and feedlot owners have other issues to contend with.[...]
Klassen: Feeder cattle futures test contract highs
Sask. vet college clinic suspends horse treatments
Saskatoon’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) has temporarily stopped accepting non-emergency equine patients following confirmation of equine herpes in a horse brought to the clinic. WCVM, the University of Saskatchewan’s vet college, said it voluntarily suspended equine services at its Large Animal Clinic last Tuesday (June 21) following the confirmation of equine herpes virus […] Read more
Agricorp extends insurance premium payment deadline
Ontario’s farm program delivery agency has spotted the province’s farmers an extra five days to pay their production insurance (PI) premiums. Agricorp on Tuesday said it would extend the deadline to July 15 from July 10. The mailing of PI invoices to producers was delayed due to the recent Canada Post strike and lockout, Agricorp […] Read more
CWB dials up 2010-11 initial payments for wheat
Prairie wheat growers can expect to see adjustment payments in the next few weeks ranging from $21.30 to $42 per tonne from a new round of increased initial payments for the 2010-11 crop year. The Canadian Wheat Board on Monday announced it has picked up federal approval for increased initial payments effective Thursday (June 30). […] Read more
Cargill to build new Peace-area grain terminal
Cargill’s Canadian arm plans to build a new grain terminal in northwestern Alberta’s Peace region to go with a new ag input centre it operates on the same site. Winnipeg-based Cargill said it plans to build a 28,000-tonne capacity facility at McLennan, about 75 km southeast of Peace River, to open in the fall of […] Read more
Waterlogged farmers getting charged for unused fertilizer
Producers in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan have seen record amounts of rainfall this spring, causing record amounts of acres to go unseeded -- and large amounts of fertilizer to go unused. Many producers who bought fertilizer were unable to use it because it was just too wet to get on the field -- and[...]
Que. dairy processor to expand plant, shut another
Citing local regulations, dairy processor Liberte plans to shut a Montreal-area plant and invest $12 million in an expansion of its plant at nearby St-Hyacinthe. The company said last week it plans to close its plant at Brossard, putting 85 staff out of work, but will hire 55 more employees at its St-Hyacinthe facility, now […] Read more
Canola area a surprise in StatsCan acreage report
The record-sized area planted to canola in the Statistics Canada acreage report released early Thursday caught more than just a few individuals in the trade by surprise. "Even with flooding and excessively wet conditions for planting it was perceivable that canola area could have easily topped the 20 million-acre level and came that much closer[...]
Sask. to halt crop insurance staff’s strike
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is calling the province’s legislature back to work, to order striking crop insurance employees back to work. Wall said Thursday he has asked the legislature’s speaker, Moosomin MLA Don Toth, to formally recall the legislature for a Monday (June 27) sitting. Wall said in a release that the legislature would reconvene […] Read more
CropWatch 2011: Watch canola for blackleg
A series of wet springs, combined with tight rotations, have led to increased risk of blackleg infection in canola crops, according to Alberta Agriculture in Wednesday’s CropWatch. Farmers are encouraged to check canola crops early and regularly for signs of the disease, the provincial ag department warned. Fungicides should be used preventively before symptoms appear, […] Read more
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