KIEV, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s grain exports fell by around 40 percent month-on-month to 2.79 million tonnes in January, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. Ukraine, which harvested an all-time-high harvest of 62.9 million tonnes in 2013, exported 21.9 million tonnes of grain in the first seven months of the 2013/14 season which runs […] Read more
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Ukraine grain exports fall 40 percent in January
Wheat, canola stocks pile up after bumper crops: StatsCan
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Canada’s canola stockpile swelled to a record high, and wheat supplies were the biggest in 20 years by the end of 2013, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, after farmers reaped bumper crops. Huge stockpiles came as no surprise after ideal weather helped farmers produce unprecedented wheat […] Read more
PED meetings planned for Alberta
Information sessions for Alberta hog producers about porcine epidemic diarrhea virus are planned in February and March at various locations. A meeting in Fort Saskatchewan is scheduled Feb. 18 in the Lakeview Hotel. Another is planned Feb. 19 at the Coast Hotel in Lethbridge and a third will run Feb. 20 in Red Deer at […] Read more
Wheat takes a small jump, canola drops
One day does not a bottom make. That was the attitude being taken by broker Ken Ball Monday after wheat futures contracts moved up a few cents on all three exchanges after marking minor gains in previous days. “They’ll occasionally bounce,” said P.I. Financial’s Ball. “One of these bounces of course will be the low. […] Read more
Iowa research lab identifies new strain of deadly pig virus
Feb 3 (Reuters) – A new strain of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, or PEDv, has been identified in samples taken from Illinois and Missouri, a top veterinarian at Iowa State University said on Monday. “We found that there is a variant out there that appears to be quite different than the original,” Rodger Main, the […] Read more
Soybeans ease as record South American crop eyed; wheat up 3rd day
SINGAPORE, Feb 3 (Reuters) – U.S. soybean futures fell for the first time in three sessions on Monday as the market took a breather on expectations of record production in Brazil and Argentina. Wheat rose for a third consecutive session with support from extreme cold weather slowing grain movement in the Black Sea region, while […] Read more
Analyst ups 2014 EU rapeseed crop forecast due good weather
PARIS, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Analyst Strategie Grains raised slightly its forecast for the 2014 rapeseed harvest in the European Union, citing good weather conditions in the bloc. Rapeseed production in the 28-country EU is now expected at 21.4 million tonnes this year, up from the 21.3 million tonnes estimated last month and 500,000 tonnes […] Read more
Prairie Paper Ventures uses crowd funding to raise capital
Crowd funding arrived at just the right moment for Jeff Golfman, a Winnipeg entrepreneur who wants to revolutionize the North American paper industry. Golfman is using the relatively new practice of selling small amounts of equity to many investors, usually through the internet, to raise $5 million for his company, which manufactures paper from wheat […] Read more
Tyson results beat estimates on higher chicken, beef sales
(Reuters) — Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat processor, reported first-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations, helped by higher chicken and beef sales. The company’s shares rose five percent to $36.10 in premarket trading after Tyson also reaffirmed its sales and meat production forecast for fiscal 2014. Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson said it sold more […] Read more
