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Loading grain on a vessel at a Burrard Inlet terminal. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Bulk ocean freight at highest level of past year

Container freight rates seen softening

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 19, 2023
MarketsFarm — Ocean freight rates have shown some strength over the past two months, with the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) at its highest level of the past year. The BDI, […] Read more

(Orchidpoet/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Machinery

Rail interswitching expansion pilot clears Parliament

Grain handlers to press for plan to be made permanent

By Dave Bedard June 29, 2023
Last week’s passage of the 2023 federal budget starts a 90-day countdown toward an 18-month test of expanded interswitching on railways in the three Prairie provinces. Bill C-47, the government’s […] Read more

A vessel is seen arriving at Odesa in southern Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative on April 12, 2023. (Photo: Yulii Zozulia/Nurphoto via Reuters Connect)
Crops, Markets

Loss of Black Sea grain deal not seen as threat to global supplies, for now

Alternate routes exist but would be more expensive

By Sybille De La Hamaide May 16, 2023
Geneva | Reuters — The end of the Black Sea grain deal would not pose an immediate threat to the world market as Ukraine would still be able to export […] Read more

(File photo by Dave Bedard)
Crops

Railways push back on feds’ proposed interswitching revival

Railways also oppose ban on replacement workers

By Dave Bedard March 30, 2023
With Easter less than two weeks away, an Easter egg in the federal government’s 2023 budget calls for a new pilot program to again provide Prairie grain shippers with extended […] Read more

File aerial photo of highway through cropland in Argentina. (Gracieross/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Argentina grains truck activity rebounds after strike lifted

By Maximilian Heath April 18, 2022
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine grains trucking activity has rebounded to near normal levels after a major strike last week, according to transport data and port sources, a relief […] Read more


File photo of the Port of Montreal. (Guy Banville/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Baltic Dry Index hits 12-year high

Canadian grain exports slow either way

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 18, 2021
MarketsFarm — Strong demand to move cargo coupled with weather-related shipping constraints in a number of key corridors has helped take ocean freight rates to their highest levels in more […] Read more

Loading grain on a vessel at a Burrard Inlet terminal. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Ocean freight rates at decade highs

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 7, 2021
MarketsFarm — Ocean freight rates have climbed steadily higher over the past year, recovering from the lows hit at the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to see their […] Read more

(PortMetroVancouver.com)
Crops, Markets

Baltic Dry Index at four-month lows

Declining demand seen from China

By MarketsFarm Team November 6, 2020
MarketsFarm — Ocean freight rates have fallen off of their highs of the past year over the course of the past month, but remain well above the lows hit in […] Read more


A freighter is loaded with grain from a terminal at Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Ocean freight rate index moving higher

By MarketsFarm Team June 15, 2020
MarketsFarm — Ocean freight rates have shown steady gains over the past month, rising to some of their highest levels of 2020 as world economies show signs of recovery amid […] Read more

A barley crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on July 30, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Softening barley market to stabilize

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 20, 2020
MarketsFarm — Feed barley bids in Western Canada have softened over the past few weeks, but should stabilize as the spring approaches. “I don’t think there’s a lot of potential […] Read more

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