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Hogs The U.S. national live price average for barrows and gilts Aug. 26 was US$ not available this week. U.S. hogs averaged $110.25 on a carcass basis Aug. 26, down from $117.80 Aug. 19. The U.S. pork cutout was $102.23 per hundredweight Aug. 26, down from $117.15 Aug 19. The estimated U.S. weekly slaughter to […] Read more
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WP livestock report
Canfax report
This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca. Fed prices surge Alberta fed cattle prices surged to new annual highs despite an anticipated reduction in […] Read more
Global aid starts to arrive as cataclysmic floods overwhelm Pakistan
SHIKARPUR, Pakistan, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Global aid has started arriving in Pakistan as the scale of flood devastation unfolds, with planes carrying tents, food and medicines arriving from China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the foreign office said on Wednesday. Unusually heavy monsoon rains triggered the floods that have submerged a third of […] Read more
Farmer surveys may cease in 2026: StatsCan
By 2026, Statistics Canada may stop asking producers about their seeding intentions, how many people they employ and other questions about their on-farm activities. StatsCan will continue to publish data on crops, livestock and adoption of new technology, so the ag industry knows what’s happening on Canadian farms. But the agency is moving away from […] Read more
Canadian farmers to produce more wheat than expected, most canola in three years
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug 29 – Canadian farmers will harvest more wheat than expected, and the biggest canola crop in three years, a report featuring the government’s first official harvest estimates showed on Monday. Canada’s crop production is rebounding strongly after severe drought ravaged last year’s harvest – welcome news for a world coping with stranded […] Read more
Uneven monsoon keeps pulses on edge
Pulse exports look plentiful this year, but a pocket of dry weather in one part of India makes market watchers nervous
Pulse markets will be better supplied in 2022-23 despite lingering concerns in some key producing and consuming regions, says a major processor and exporter of the crop. Will Watchorn, global head of pulses at Viterra, is optimistic about a big rebound in exports. “Canada’s crop this year is looking average to above-average but the final […] Read more
U.S. announces aviation fuel tax credit details
Newly released tax credits expected to make sustainable aviation fuel a bigger market for canola than renewable diesel
New sustainable aviation fuel tax credits in the United States could be the start of a massive new market for canola, says an industry official. “The potential is enormous,” said Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association. Up until now most of the hype has been around renewable diesel, which has helped […] Read more
Strong demand brightens outlook for more sunflower acres
Acres in Canada have seen some growth, increasing from 76,000 in 2019 to an estimated 93,000 this year
Not long ago, sunflower buyers would offer new crop prices in January or February to attract production in the spring. Now, buyers are posting prices in the summer to convince farmers to grow sunflowers the following year, said John Sandbakken, executive director of the National Sunflower Association in the United States. “In the last two […] Read more
Cheap Alta. gas gives food sector competitive advantage
Western Canada has some of the lowest cost natural gas in the world right now, limiting revenue for producers and government resource taxes, but giving gas users, including the agriculture and food sector, a competitive advantage. In early July, I wrote about how Europe’s natural gas costs were soaring as Russia limited exports of the […] Read more
Book provides an insider’s view from atop the ag castle
An enormous structure looms over the farmers who farm the fields of Western Canada, the millions of tonnes of grain they grow, and the millions of people around the world who depend on their crops. That structure consists of companies, ports, regulations, governments, money, power and politics, but it’s something farmers can usually only peer […] Read more
