Canola prices continued their pleasant upturn Monday, adding almost another 10 cents per bushel on futures markets and taking it about $15 per tonne above the $421 low reached last week. Broker Ken Ball of P.I. Financial said he didn’t believe there was an obvious fundamental cause of Monday’s action. “It was just carrying on […] Read more
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Canola continues recovery
Pipeline running after closed by oil spill
An Enbridge pipeline south of Regina was temporarily shut down Saturday after a spill at its Rowatt pumping station. Enbridge shut down Line 67 just a few kilometres south of the city at about 10:50 a.m. and re-opened it at 9:20 p.m. Initial estimates from the company suggested the amount spilled was up to 125 […] Read more
Measles warning issued in Regina
The Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region and provincial health ministry are warning the public about two suspected cases of measles. The two are in addition to two others the ministry confirmed last week and involve adults. The ministry released a list of businesses and locations where people might have been exposed to the highly infectious diseases […] Read more
Sask. bus company gets gov’t funding hike
The Saskatchewan government will provide the provincial bus company with $13.6 million this year. This includes $10.3 million in operating funding and a capital grant of $3.3 million and compares to an operating grant of $9.2 million and capital grant of $2.3 million recorded in the 2012 annual report. Saskatchewan Transportation Co. cut several routes […] Read more
Canada, South Korea In ‘tremendous’ free-trade talks: minister
(Reuters) — Canada and South Korea are having “tremendous discussions” toward a free-trade agreement, said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, a deal that could increase trade in meat and autos. Talks began in 2005, but were later hung up over disputes such as a delay in South Korea scrapping its ban on Canadian beef. South Korea […] Read more
Russia halts Australia beef by-product imports over drug
MOSCOW/SYDNEY Jan 17 (Reuters) – Russia is temporarily banning the import of beef by-products from Australia, citing the detection in shipments of a growth stimulant it prohibits and throwing into doubt exports that brought in around A$10 million ($8.81 million) last year for Australia. The ban will be imposed from Jan. 27 and was prompted […] Read more
Grain growers ask feds for rail plan
Grain Growers of Canada is calling on Ottawa and the railways to come up with a rail capacity plan to deal with current and looming economic damage caused by inadequate car numbers. The Ottawa-based farm lobby group that often has the ear of agriculture minister Gerry Ritz sent a letter the minister and transport minister […] Read more
Australia revives water trade, and political stand-off around it
SYDNEY, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Australia’s government said on Monday it would sell back water allocations to drought-hit farmers along the Murray-Darling river system for the first time, prompting accusations that it is abandoning the vital waterway’s environmental restoration. The Murray-Darling basin is a key agricultural region as well as the largest river system in […] Read more
Seven more China bird flu cases in fresh wave of infection
LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Another seven people in China have been infected with the new and often deadly H7N9 strain of bird flu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, adding to at least 24 new cases last week and confirming a fresh wave of the virus. One of the seven cases, which […] Read more
Probation recommended for Colorado farmers tied to listeria outbreak
DENVER, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Two Colorado farmers whose listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killed 33 people in 2011 should be sentenced to five years of probation, a prosecutor told a court on Friday. Eric and Ryan Jensen, former owners of Colorado-based Jensen Farms, pleaded guilty in October to charges stemming from one of the deadliest U.S. outbreaks […] Read more
