WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 25 (Reuters) – ICE Canada canola futures mostly fell on Tuesday as investors booked profits, but deferred contracts representing the next harvest edged higher on fears of planting delays. The most-active contract gained about 10 percent in the three-week period ending on Monday, and investors were locking in profits by selling, a […] Read more
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ICE Canada canola futures dip on profit-taking, later contracts rise
Map shows unharvested areas by township
A map produced by the Alberta Financial Services Corporation shows where unharvested fields are concentrated in Alberta. The map breaks it down by township. The worst regions were in the Peace River Region and in central areas. Story continues after map. In the Peace, hard hit municipalities included but were not limited to Clear Hills, […] Read more
Snow, unharvested crop lift canola futures Monday
More snow and rain in parts of the prairies over the weekend and today helped lift canola futures on Monday. Worries are increasing that the amount of overwintered canola that will be fit for crushing is dropping with the poor weather. Also the weather is delaying field work. It will put extreme pressure on those […] Read more
Alberta pumps funds into flood avoidance
Cypress County, County of Warner, the City of Medicine Hat and the South East Alberta Watershed Alliance Society will share in $2.1 million in grant funds from the Alberta government to improve their resilience to floods. In announcements made today, Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips said the money is designed to help recipients […] Read more
Equipment manufacturer receives federal funds for innovation
The federal government is providing $4.1 million to support innovation and international trade in Saskatchewan’s agricultural equipment manufacturing sector. Morris Industries of Saskatoon will receive close to $3.5 million through the Western Innovation Initiative to increase its production capacity using an advanced manufacturing technology it has commercialized. Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership will receive $700,000 […] Read more
Snowy weather worries pile onto backed-up Canadian farmers
WINNIPEG (Reuters) — A snowy spring on the Prairies is raising jitters from the farm to the futures market about double delays in harvesting and seeding. Many fields went unharvested last fall due to wet weather and farmers hoped to salvage those crops before planting the next this spring. Alberta alone has as much as […] Read more
CWB class action seeks move to Manitoba court
Lawyers representing Manitoba farmer Andrew Dennis have filed a statement of claim with the Court of Queen’s Bench in Winnipeg, seeking certification for a class action lawsuit on behalf of all western Canadian farmers who delivered wheat and barley to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 crop years. The statement of claim, […] Read more
Potato chips recalled
Miss Vickie’s brand of jalapeno kettle cooked potato chips are the subject of a recall announced April 21 by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The chips may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, but there have been no reported illnesses in connection with eating them. The CFIA said the recall was triggered by Miss Vickie’s Canada. […] Read more
Feds fund environmental ag research
Twenty new research projects across Canada, involving climate change mitigation, soil and water conservation, will have access to $27 million over five years from the federal agriculture department. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced the funds April 21 at the University of Alberta. The funds are held within the Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP), which aims […] Read more
Seeding in jeopardy in parts of Manitoba
Farmers in certain areas of southern Manitoba need four to five weeks of ideal weather or they won’t be planting a crop this spring. The spring weather in late April has been far from ideal with successive storms dumping wet snow on parts of Manitoba from April 22-24. On top of that, temperatures for the […] Read more
