Insights and Stories of Dave Sims

Jul. 8, 2015 at 5:04 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade corn futures chalked up slight gains for the week ended Wednesday, while soybean futures posted steep losses on volatile trading. Sean Lusk, director of the commercial hedging division for Walsh Trading in Chicago, said there are growing worries about the quality of the […]

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Jul. 7, 2015 at 6:38 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian diesel prices should go down between now and the end of the summer, according to a fuel expert. Since early May, the price of diesel across the Prairies has largely been in and around the 94-98 cents per litre range. Tom Kloza of the Oil Price […]

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Jul. 6, 2015 at 5:32 pm CDT

CNS Canada — While many Canadian crops are wishing for more rain right now, one expert sees sunflowers, primarily grown in Manitoba, doing relatively fine for moisture. “There’s no weather worries on sunflowers right now. A lot of the acres went in because it was forecasted to be a very […]

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Jun. 24, 2015 at 7:48 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– The lack of rain in Western Canada is causing a few headaches for pea farmers, who don’t have a crop to call their own yet, but face Asian customers eager to get their hands on fresh supplies. While rain is on the wish list of most growers […]

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Jun. 19, 2015 at 7:04 pm CDT

CNS Canada — While fusarium head blight and wheat streak mosaic have already popped up in Manitoba fields, a new strain of disease is making its presence felt in the province’s south. Stripe rust and leaf rust appear to have blown in from the United States. Pam de Rocquigny of […]

By Dave Sims