BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Argentina’s nearly planted 2013-14 wheat crop benefited over recent months from wet weather in the country’s farm belt that aided sowing, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said in its weekly report Thursday. Argentina is a major global wheat exporter and 3.9 million hectares are expected by the exchange to be planted […] Read more
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Rains give boost to recently planted Argentine wheat
Agrium profit hit by cold North American spring
(Reuters) — Canadian fertilizer company Agrium Inc. reported a fall in quarterly profit Aug. 7 due to an unusually cold spring in North America, but said it expected strong demand for crop inputs for the rest of the year. Unseasonably cool weather in the U.S. Midwest this spring compressed the usual time period for farmers […] Read more
Markets predict major canola crop
Grain marketers are anticipating a big increase in canola production when Agriculture Canada comes out with a new supply and demand outlook early next week. They are forecasting a crop in the range of 15 to 15.5 million tonnes, said Dave Reimann, market analyst with Cargill’s Grain Marketing Services. Agriculture Canada’s July 17 outlook calls […] Read more
Researchers hopeful over bean resistance discoveries
Morden, Man. — New discoveries have researchers hoping that root rot resistance can be built into both small- and large-seed pulses “We were surprised,” said Agriculture Canada scientist Bob Conner during a Manitoba Pulse Growers Association tour about resistance being discovered in both old varieties and large seed bean types. The more resistance found in […] Read more
Straw Man strategy aims to unite beef industry players
For more than a century, players in the Canadian beef industry have often ridden separate trails, but as the world’s food demands change, they say it is time to ride together. The Straw Man Canadian Beef Industry Strategy was born at a meeting in Calgary last spring to get people talking about how to seize […] Read more
Glyphosate resistant kochia suspected in Manitoba
Growers and provincial agriculture specialists suspect that glyphosate resistant kochia has arrived in Manitoba. After applying glyphosate this year, several soybean growers found that the herbicide did not kill kochia plants in their fields. They alerted provincial employees, including Dennis Lange, a Manitoba Agriculture crop production adviser in Altona. Lange, who spoke at a field […] Read more
National Cattle Feeders’ Association names new policy and research manager
Casey Vander Ploeg, a former senior policy analyst with the Canada West Foundation, has been appointed manager of policy and research with the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association and the National Cattle Feeders’ Association. Originally from Vauxhall, Alta., Vander Ploeg is also a former news reporter with a degree in political science. NCFA chair Jeff Warrack […] Read more
Canadian Beef Breeds Council gets new executive director
Michael Latimer is the new executive director of the Canadian Beef Breeds Council. Latimer is a fifth generation purebred cattle producer having been a partner with Remitall Cattle Company at Olds, Alta. For the last four years he was general manager of the Canadian Angus Association where he was responsible for breed promotion and strategic […] Read more
Churchill port shipping season underway
Exports of western Canadian grain are moving again through the Port of Churchill. The first grain ship of the 2013 shipping season was loaded last week at the northern Manitoba port. The ship, Atlantic Dream, will carry CWB spring wheat destined for Mexico. As of last week, two more grain ships were anchored at Churchill, […] Read more
Producer car volumes decline
Thunder Bay terminal | Ocean freight rates forced more grain west
Canada’s top handler of producer cars says the amount of producer car grain it receives at its export terminal in Thunder Bay was down 20 to 25 percent in 2012-13. Nonetheless, Mission Terminal Inc. still sees a bright future in the producer car business, said Derek Drayson, the company’s grain merchant and business development expert. […] Read more
