Insights and Stories of Rod Nickel

Prairie seeding still on hold, better weather coming

Apr. 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm CDT

Western Canada’s farmers will likely keep their tractors parked this week at a time when they’re usually seeding crops, as fields remain flooded after a stretch of cool temperatures, a Canadian Wheat Board official said. Seeding has not started and looks 10 days to three weeks behind schedule, the same […]

Flood forces CN, CP to close Man. rail lines

Apr. 20, 2011 at 4:36 pm CDT

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Cattle, crops at risk from N.D. floods, snow

Apr. 19, 2011 at 11:15 pm CDT

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Prairie seeding seen 10 days to three weeks behind

Apr. 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm CDT

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Prairie flooding delays seeding two weeks so far

Apr. 13, 2011 at 5:31 pm CDT

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Flood risk builds, looks to delay seeding

Apr. 6, 2011 at 2:48 pm CDT

Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for seeding. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and […]

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Impending storm worsens Prairie flood risk, crop outlook

Mar. 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm CDT

A snowstorm that looks to sweep across Western Canada’s grain and canola belt would worsen what are already the wettest conditions for this time of year since the 1970s, a Canadian Wheat Board official said Monday. Environment Canada, the government forecasting agency, issued warnings for snowfall up to 25 cm […]

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U.S. makes biggest buy of Prairie feed wheat in decade

Mar. 10, 2011 at 5:17 pm CST

Canadian feed wheat is flowing into the southeastern United States in the largest quantities for more than a decade, highlighting tight U.S. corn supplies and a surplus of feed wheat in Canada, several trade sources said on Wednesday. Wilmington Bulk LLC, a consortium of North Carolina poultry and swine producers […]

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Canada offers wheat, Japan buys as planned

Feb. 4, 2011 at 6:12 pm CST

Japan bought food wheat from Canada at a regular tender on Thursday and a Canadian Wheat Board memo shows it managed to find scarce high-protein supplies despite a global shortage of top-quality wheat. The CWB sold Japan’s ministry of agriculture 37,110 tonnes of top-grade spring wheat for shipping March 12 […]

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Canada misses Japan wheat tender over low protein

Jan. 27, 2011 at 9:37 pm CST

(Reuters) — The Canadian Wheat Board didn’t fill a recent wheat tender from Japan because its wheat has a lower percentage of protein than Japan usually requires, a spokeswoman for the marketing agency said Thursday. But the CWB remains confident of filling future tenders from Japan, its fourth-largest wheat export […]

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