The week ended with most crop futures sticking with recent trends. Canola and soybeans continue to trade in a sideways range, beneath recent highs but still close to them. Wheat futures have significantly fallen back from their recent highs, with both hard red spring wheat futures and hard red winter wheat futures selling off 70 […] Read more
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Video: Canadian Agriculture Markets – May 9, 2014
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly reports had only a modest impact on markets on Friday. Corn suffered perhaps the most on USDA’s forecast for 2013-14 world corn supplies at 168.42 million tonnes, above the market forecasts for 157.31 million. USDA said that by the end of 2014-15, world corn stocks would be 181.73 million […] Read more
Returning to the scene of the flood
I’ve been feeling a little odd, a bit out-of-sorts for the past couple of weeks, and I have figured out why: I am not covering massive flooding of Manitoba farmland. So often in mid-April to mid-May in recent years I’ve been heading off to cover the stories of millions of acres of farmland being inundated […] Read more
Video: Canola rallies back to gain on the week
Traders were positioning ahead of Monday’s Statistics Canada March 31 stocks report. A Reuters survey shows traders expect nine million tonnes of canola stocks, the largest ever for this point in the year. July canola closed Friday at $480.40 per tonne, up $11.20 or 2.39 percent on the day. Slow farmer selling, stronger soybeans, meal […] Read more
High horsepower, automatic transmission unite in Genesis T8
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Marrying high horsepower to automatic transmissions is becoming more popular with tractor makers, but a non-articulated 435 h.p. CVT is pushing the boundaries. A few companies, such as Fendt with its 900 series, have been pairing high power with slicker transmission offerings, but the tendency was limited to sub-300 h.p. machines. New […] Read more
WP markets review April 26
Commodity markets showed little predictability ahead of the Statistics Canada planting intentions report in the middle of last week. Canola acres might be down from expectations, while western Canadian growers diversify their cropping, spreading their risk around for the 2014 growing season. That pushed canola markets up nearly half a point on the week, finishing […] Read more
A small but frothy picture of your supply chain
There was lots of hardcore grain transportation and logistics talk at last week’s Canadian Global Crops Symposium, a brand new conference organized by the Canada Grains Council. But some of the most interesting content was softer, lighter, information about long-range agricultural outlooks and about just what makes our crops so successful in world markets. I […] Read more
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – April 18, 2014.
Watch Canada’s Weekly Farm Update to keep plug in to the latest agriculture news and markets information. In this week’s video update: Glyphosate resistant kochia in the Red River Valley; Debbie Stabenow, chair of the Senate agriculture committee, is optimistic the coalition that endorsed the Farm Bill will stick; Western Canadian farmland value soared in […] Read more
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – April 11, 2014.
In this week’s video markets and news cast Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea has been confirmed in more Manitoba pigs. The provincial government said Thursday a small number of animals tested positive for PED at a high traffic site in western Manitoba. Western Producer reporter Ed White was at the Manitoba Pork Council conference in Winnipeg where […] Read more
The Quarantine: can be extremely effective for pigs, sheep – and humans
This Wednesday I heard an Iowa hog farmer explaining how his vigorous quarantine measures are helping keep his farm clean of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), even though he’s surrounded by outbreaks and is in the most highly concentrated pig barn counties in the United States. Since Christmas PEDv has been within half a mile […] Read more
