Insights and Stories of Alana Vannahme

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:50 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Canadian farmers seeded more canola than they originally said they intended to, bringing Western Canada up to a record 15.812 million acres, according to Statistics Canada’s updated 2008 estimates of principal field crop area. “It seemed like almost nobody thought there would be any big shifts […]

By Alana Vannahme

Jun. 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Enhanced security features on Canadian meat certificates played an important role in recently improving Canada’s access to Russian pork markets, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Tuesday. Ritz was in Russia to participate in a meeting of the Russia-Canada agriculture working group of the Intergovernmental Economic […]

By Alana Vannahme

Jun. 12, 2008 at 12:47 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — High ocean freight rates are limiting Canada’s grain and oilseed export program and those rates aren’t expected to decline significantly anytime soon. “In the last few weeks you’ve seen rates increase by 15 to 25 per cent depending on the destination. When you combine that increase […]

By Alana Vannahme

Jun. 5, 2008 at 10:56 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Production capacity in the Canadian ethanol industry is expected to hit one billion litres per year by the middle of this month, with yet another ethanol plant expected to be fully operational shortly. Total 2008 ethanol production capacity, which Canada is expected to realize in the […]

By Alana Vannahme

Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:16 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The price volatility that has crept into the Canadian ag industry may have long-term implications for multi-year contracts, with farmers less willing to sign onto agreements that look attractive one season and inadequate the next, an agricultural analyst said. Ron Frost, a marketing specialist with Pike […]

By Alana Vannahme