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Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 29, 2014.
In this week’s video: Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz and Saskatchewan agriculture minister Lyle Stewart comment on Ottawa’s new legislation aimed at improving rail service to Western Canadian grain shippers. Richard Gray, professor at the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Bioresource Policy, says where he thinks investments are needed in Canada’s grain transportation system. Truck […] Read more
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 22, 2014.
In this week’s video: Prairie grain shipments are showing signs of improvement; Road bans are coming on in some rural municipalities; Back-to-work legislation contemplated for the truckers’ strike affecting the Port of Vancouver; Concerns over Ukraine’s corn production because of the crisis in Crimea; Hog and pork prices posted new records; Michele Payn-Knoper, an author, […] Read more
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 15, 2014.
In this week’s video: Unhappy rail lines, Canada and South Korea make a trade deal; a look at what’s affecting ag prices in McMillan’s Markets; Joanne Paulson talks rail lines in the Editor’s Notebook; spring runoff predictions; varying kernel weights and canola plant populations; cattails processed with straw to make hybrid fuel cubes; Syngenta breeders […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 8, 2014
In this week’s update, a federal order in council requires Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways to start moving minimum amounts of grain. Mike Raine examines the California drought and New Holland’s selective catalyst reduction-only strategy. Tracy Lussier, a canola trading manager at Louis Dreyfus Commodities, gives his predictions on canola acres and carryover for […] Read more
VIDEO: CIGI, Viterra, Morocco – Prairie grain institution busier than ever
On Tuesday Viterra gave one million dollars to the Canadian International Grains Institute – and made an implicit challenge to the other Prairie grain heavyweights to help out with recapitalizing the institution. It’s a lot of money, with no strings attached other than renaming an existing classroom with the Viterra name, but it’s a much-needed […] Read more
Canola Council of Canada in San Antonio – Video
Here’s a little video summary of what I saw last week down at the Canola Council of Canada annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Lots of stuff was discussed, but I chose to hone in here on what strikes me as the biggest question dealt with there: what needs to get done to get farmers […] Read more
Scenes and sounds from this year’s Commodity Classic in San Antonio
Here’s a taste of what I saw when I went down to the Commodity Classic farm policy convention in San Antonio, Texas last week. It’s the conference that brings together the annual conventions of the American wheat, corn and soybean growers associations and draws in thousands of farmers and lots of people trying to make […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 1, 2014
In this week’s update, WP reporters were spread across North America covering everything from the Canola Council of Canada meeting and the US corn and wheat growers meetings in Texas, to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s annual meeting in Ottawa. Slow rail movement of grain remains a big issue for farmers and farm policy makers. […] Read more
Video: Weekly Canadian agricultural news & markets update – Feb. 22, 2014
In this week’s agricultural news and markets videocast from The Western Producer, WP managing editor Mike Raine and markets editor D’Arce McMillan examine PED outbreaks in Canada, high-level meetings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan on inadequate rail service, Agriculture Canada releases its farm income forecast, sunflower for #plant14, USDA 2014 spring forecast, and more Also in the […] Read more
