Winnipeg | Reuters — Problems with Canada’s canola crop are driving up the oilseed’s price, cutting processors’ margins to their lowest levels in two years and threatening to boost the […] Read more
Canada’s canola crop woes cut crusher profits to two-year low
Patchy canola points to smaller crop, harvest dilemma
Winnipeg | Reuters — Canola crops are rising across the Prairies like bad haircuts, reflecting multiple plantings and growth stages during a spring of frost and dry conditions. The most […] Read more
TMX turning to cattle sales
Reuters — TMX Group, operator of Canada’s TSX stock exchange, hopes to rope a piece of the $90 billion North America cattle sector, and said Tuesday it would offer the […] Read more
Rain sprinkles Prairie canola fields, pastures
Winnipeg | Reuters — Light rains sprinkled Western Canada’s crops and pastures during the weekend, but amounts fell well short of what’s needed to remedy dry conditions that have stunted […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally
Reuters — Chicago wheat futures climbed two per cent on Monday, extending last week’s rally on worries over potentially lower crop yields in the U.S. Plains. Wheat’s gains helped pull […] Read more
Prairie farmers scramble for canola seed after frost
Winnipeg | Reuters –– Western Canadian farmers are scrambling to find scarce canola seed as they reseed crops snuffed out by frost and insects. Farmers in the region have until […] Read more
Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight
Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz […] Read more
Study of CWRS wheats counters diet book’s claims
Winnipeg | Reuters — The amount of protein in Canadian wheat has fluctuated little in 141 years, according to the most extensive study of its kind, countering claims that radical […] Read more
Light rain on way for Prairie crops, but ‘soaker’ needed
Winnipeg | Reuters –– Rain looks to splash parched farms on Western Canada’s Prairies over the next week as concerns mount that soil is too dry for canola to grow […] Read more
PotashCorp evaluating SQM, ICL stakes
New York | Reuters –– PotashCorp CEO Jochen Tilk said Thursday he views the company’s stakes in fertilizer companies Sinofert and Arab Potash Co. as “strategic,” but continues to review […] Read more