D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
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VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – November 9, 2016
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
VIDEO: Agriculture benefits from economic boom
REINLAND, Man. — Farming gets a little complicated when your local town grows into a rural metropolis. “It’s a little bit stressful when you’re farming right around the area with the traffic and the construction going on all the time,” said Jack Froese, who farms just outside the booming city of Winkler, just north of the […] Read more
VIDEO: Hunger called human rights issue
Varayayi Pugeni knew all about hunger when he was growing up in rural Zimbabwe. “There is nothing as depressing as when a mother has to make a choice on which child to feed, or to make a choice on which child should go to bed hungry,” Pugeni said on World Food Day Oct. 16. “My […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – November 2, 2016
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
VIDEO: Alta. growers see near record-setting sugar beet harvest
TABER, Alta. — The 28,000-acre southern Alberta sugar beet harvest is nearing completion with the possibility of record-breaking yields. Arnie Bergen-Henengouwen, president of Alberta Sugar Beet Growers, said growing conditions favoured sugar beets this year. “There was a little bit of hail in the area that affected some of the acres, but overall they’re expecting […] Read more
VIDEO: Milk the oilseeds along with the cows
WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Ten years ago, Jasmin Hofer and her father started thinking about why they were growing cash crop soybeans and then buying back expensive soybean meal for their 120 dairy cows. “It seemed like we were leaving some money on the table,” the chief executive officer of Energrow said earlier this year in […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – October 26, 2016
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
VIDEO: G3 expansion driven by speed
Automated and integrated systems enable elevators to unload thousands of tonnes of grain with as few as 10 workers
GLENLEA, Man. — All of a sudden, new concrete and steel giants seem to spring up from the soil to suck in and spit out farmers’ crops. Announcements of new elevator projects have come quickly during the past few years, but it’s inside the massive structures that lightning-fast speed is most evident to the farmers […] Read more
VIDEO: Seed firms small but confident
In an era of mega-mergers creating giant agricultural corporations, Brett Young Seeds and DL Seeds stand confidently, putting their varieties up against the giants’ in the hotly contested canola market. “We knew we were in a position to challenge InVigor,” said Eric Gregory, Brett Young’s director of marketing, about its new varieties of canola. InVigor […] Read more
