Insights and Stories of Rod Nickel

Prairie farmers tiptoe in wheat market, sell canola briskly

Nov. 16, 2012 at 3:31 pm CST

Canadian farmers are keeping their bins of newly harvested wheat locked as they cautiously ponder their first sales outside a marketing monopoly since the Second World War — while strong demand has pried much of this year’s disappointing canola crop off farms. Farmers have only sold an estimated 20 to […]

Canada sees no link between Viterra, Nexen approvals

Nov. 13, 2012 at 5:04 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Canada’s biggest hog farm weathers crisis, eyes supply risk

Nov. 1, 2012 at 4:33 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Maple Leaf Foods profit falls 24 pct

Oct. 31, 2012 at 5:32 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Dry fall in Western Canada has farmers worried about spring planting

Oct. 30, 2012 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

CFIA says not more safety concerns at XL

Oct. 26, 2012 at 5:18 pm CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has no food-safety worries in allowing XL Foods plant in Brooks to re-open. “We are confident that all issues have been fully addressed,” said Paul Mayers, associate vice-president of programs for CFIA. Problems at the plant ranged from failing to follow its own […]

By Rod Nickel

Shrinking canola oil content pinches crushers, exporters

Oct. 26, 2012 at 4:14 pm CDT

Supply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils. Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in top grower Canada would […]

By Rod Nickel

PotashCorp profit off on standoff with China, India

Oct. 25, 2012 at 5:53 pm CDT

PotashCorp’s third-quarter earnings fell 22 per cent as a standoff over new contracts led to a sharp drop in shipments to China and India, the world’s two biggest consumers of the company’s namesake crop nutrient. The world’s biggest fertilizer maker said on Thursday that overseas potash shipments by North American […]

By Rod Nickel

XL’s Brooks beef plant reopens

Oct. 23, 2012 at 12:11 pm CDT

The Canadian plant that produced millions of pounds of recalled beef was set to reopen on Tuesday as food inspection officials tried to restore consumer confidence in the country’s food safety system. XL Foods’ Brooks, Alta. plant has been closed since Sept. 27 after producing beef contaminated with E. coli […]

By Rod Nickel

Olymel offers $65M for hog producer Big Sky

Oct. 18, 2012 at 6:49 pm CDT

Privately held Olymel, one of Canada’s largest pork processors, has offered to buy Canada’s second-largest hog producer out of receivership for $65.25 million. Big Sky Farms, which produces about a million pigs per year and is based near Humboldt, Sask., entered receivership in early September after piling up $69 million […]

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Insights and Stories of Rod Nickel

Prairie farmers tiptoe in wheat market, sell canola briskly

Canada sees no link between Viterra, Nexen approvals

Canada’s biggest hog farm weathers crisis, eyes supply risk

Maple Leaf Foods profit falls 24 pct

Dry fall in Western Canada has farmers worried about spring planting

CFIA says not more safety concerns at XL

Shrinking canola oil content pinches crushers, exporters

PotashCorp profit off on standoff with China, India

XL’s Brooks beef plant reopens

Olymel offers $65M for hog producer Big Sky

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