By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs posted their sixth straight higher settlement on Wednesday as prices for market-ready or cash hogs edged upward, traders said. April futures closed 0.750 cent per pound higher at 69.325 cents, and May up 2.850 cents at 81.900 cents. Wednesday morning’s average cash […] Read more
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CME hogs post more gains on cash prices; cattle turn higher
More grain moved through Vancouver last year
Bulk shipments of Canadian grain through the port of Vancouver were up more than 20 percent in 2014, according to grain export statistics published last week by the port authority. Data compiled by Port Metro Vancouver lists bulk grain, oilseed, feed and specialty crop shipments at 19.6 million tonnes in 2014, up from 16.1 million […] Read more
CGC proposes new class for milling wheat
The Canadian Grain Commission is proposing a series of changes to Canada’s wheat classification system aimed at protecting Canadian wheat markets and ensuring that end-users are satisfied with the grain that they buy. The proposed changes are intended to ensure greater consistency and predictability in the quality of Canadian wheat sold domestically and abroad. Among […] Read more
ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins
WINNIPEG/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agribusiness has “temporarily” shifted production at its Velva, North Dakota, oilseeds processing facility from […] Read more
Brazil truck strike grinds into second week, but access to main port cleared
SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Truckers staged nearly 100 road blocks across Brazil’s farm belt on Wednesday as protests stretched into their eighth day, though access to the country’s biggest port was cleared after police clashed with protesters who had briefly halted traffic there. The steadily widening blockades have sparked growing fuel and supply shortages and […] Read more
Man. to pick outstanding young farmers Saturday
Manitoba’s finest young farmers will be selected this weekend in Winnipeg. Matt and Tanya Plett of Blumenort, Andrew and Jaclyn Platt from Arborg, Mark and Cori Pawluk of Birtle and Andreas and Jamie Zinn of Springstein are competing to become Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2015. The couples will speak to a panel of judges […] Read more
UPDATE: Four brothers die in Manitoba farmhouse fire
UPDATE: Wednesday February 25, 2015 – 15:45 CST – The four children who died early this morning in a farmhouse fire near the community of Kane, Man. were brothers. The parents and three other children escaped the two story home in Manitoba’s Red River Valley, but four brothers were trapped inside. Brothers Henry, Danny, Timmy […] Read more
Fire kills four children
A house fire in southern Manitoba has killed four children, fire officials say. Fire chief Bernard Schellenberg said two adults were taken to hospital Feb. 23. Three other children survived, the blaze broke, which broke out at about 2 a.m. near Morris, Man. Ralph Groening from Morris, Man., said the two adults were parents to […] Read more
Museum opens files to prairie history
Documenting a culture sounds like the work of anthropologists. In Saskatoon, this work is done at the George Sheppard Library, which has collected 135 years of catalogues, manuals, maps, photographs and books to tell the story of prairie settlement. Interested in how to operate a Rumely steam tractor? Want to know what towns existed on […] Read more
Australia, U.S. race to satisfy insatiable, and lucrative, quinoa appetite
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Australia and the United States, two of the world’s biggest wheat exporters, are racing to become mass producers of the South American “super food” quinoa and tap a gluten-free market expected to be worth more than US $6 billion by 2018. Importantly for wheat farmers who regularly battle crop-destroying droughts, the nutritious […] Read more
