Insights and Stories of Alana Vannahme

Dec. 8, 2008 at 7:06 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Reduced demand in Canada for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about supply shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet, on the other side of the coin, there is the […]

By Alana Vannahme

Nov. 27, 2008 at 8:03 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Not all distillers’ grains are created equally — and the buyers who use the co-product of ethanol in animal feed are willing to price accordingly. Because ethanol production is not an exact science and ethanol plants are not uniformly constructed, nutrient and quality variation in distillers’ […]

By Alana Vannahme

Nov. 20, 2008 at 4:29 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall “We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open when the […]

By Alana Vannahme

Nov. 18, 2008 at 11:01 am CST

(Resource News International) — Trade sources expect the next Statistics Canada 2008-09 crop production report, to be released Dec. 4, to confirm ideas that Prairie producers harvested a record amount of canola this fall. “The trade is generally thinking 12 million tonnes. Whether the amount is a couple hundred thousand […]

By Alana Vannahme

Nov. 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Since the boom in the U.S. biofuel industry, U.S. supplies of distillers dried grains, a co-product of ethanol production, have grown significantly and U.S. exporters have been looking north to a large and growing market for their feed alternative. At the recent United States Grain Council’s […]

By Alana Vannahme