Global Grain Group plans to provide a much-improved grain handling option rather than just being a tiny player in the prairie economy, says its chief executive officer. “It’s a model based on efficiency and a model based on removing as many bottlenecks as we can,” Karl Gerrand said during a Nov. 3 question-and-answer session at […] Read more
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Canada’s quality, consistency questioned
High standards suffering | A foreign grain buyer lists problems with underweight shipments, uneven protein
Recent shipments to a significant Asian buyer are damaging Canada’s reputation for quality and consistency in grain, says a senior company representative. He urged the Canadian grain in-dustry to take a hard look at what’s going wrong so Canada doesn’t lose premium overseas markets. “We don’t know what’s going on in the system here that […] Read more
Big harvests, poor prices: analysts
Huge stock carryover | CWB analyst sees bright side, saying low quality grain in demand by domestic feed market
Low prices for years is the most reasonable expectation for farmers, analysts said last week at Cereals North America. It was a dark thread that wound through a conference that contained few hopeful elements. A crop-heavy world situation has exacerbated logistics problems in Canada and the United States, and there are hints that Canada’s quality, […] Read moreQuoted at Cereals North America
PEDRO DEJNEKA AgResource Brazil Don’t believe the hype about Brazil being dry as soybeans are seeded, AgResource Brazil analyst Pedi Dejneka said. “Planting is going just fine in Brazil,” he said. Dryness today has little effect on how crops turn out, Dejneka said. It’s not critically dry, and although the dryness is pushing back seeding […] Read more
