Insights and Stories of Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 30, 2009 at 11:57 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for both large green and red lentils in Western Canada have been continuously strengthening over the past month with strong demand from the export sector providing the firmness. “Despite the large crops in Canada, the demand coming from importer India has been causing values […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 29, 2009 at 2:36 am CST

(Resource News International) –– Edible pea prices in Western Canada have begun to improve with some of the rise linked to ideas that export demand for the commodity has to start improving soon. “There are vessels scheduled to arrive during November to pick up edible peas, but a lot of […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 27, 2009 at 3:49 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Canada’s status as a reliable supplier of grains and oilseeds is again being threatened, this time by a labour dispute between Canadian National Railway (CN) and 1,700 locomotive engineers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC). The TCRC on Wednesday served CN officials with a […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 26, 2009 at 7:15 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for canola in Western Canada have been holding fairly steady, although there were a few locations in which the need to fill contracts has firmed up prices. The reluctance of producers to deliver canola into the cash pipeline has helped to firm up bids […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 25, 2009 at 3:48 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Producers in the grain-growing regions of Western Canada will have lower-than-normal precipitation levels to work with this spring as they try to seed crops, according to preliminary projections from an industry analyst. “The short- and longer-term crop models are calling for very little precipitation ahead of […]

By Dwayne Klassen