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Corteva to split seeds, pesticide units into separate listed companies

Oct. 3, 2025 at 10:44 am CDT

Corteva said on Wednesday it would separate its seed and pesticide businesses into separate listed companies, as the agrichemicals firm seeks to sharpen its strategic focus.

Prairie spring wheat bids soften with U.S. futures

Oct. 3, 2025 at 10:22 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

fresh bread on the shelf in the food and grocery store

World food prices dip as falls in sugar and dairy offset new high for meat

Oct. 3, 2025 at 9:36 am CDT

By Reuters

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle fall on profit-taking

Oct. 2, 2025 at 4:21 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Soybeans rebound as market weighs China prospects

Oct. 2, 2025 at 4:15 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

Two people look over a wire fence at an ostrich.

B.C. ostrich owner condemns violence near embattled farm

Oct. 2, 2025 at 2:36 pm CDT

One of the owners of Universal Ostrich near Edgewood, B.C. condemned the alleged assault and arson against one of the farm’s neighbours said to have been committed by a protestor. The farm is in a legal battle with federal authorities over a cull order of the farm’s ostriches, which contracted avian influenza.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed barley under pressure, watching to see ‘who blinks first’

Oct. 2, 2025 at 2:29 pm CDT

Ample supplies and a lack of demand are weighing on Western Canadian feed barley in early October, with both buyers and sellers reluctant to push values one way or the other.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Good progress made in Sask. harvest

Oct. 2, 2025 at 1:23 pm CDT

Combining in Saskatchewan is in the home stretch as the province’s agriculture department reported it at 84 per cent complete. Although the harvest advanced 16 points during the week ended Sept. 29, it was eight points behind the five-year average.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Faster growth for farmland values in first half of 2025 says FCC

Oct. 2, 2025 at 12:19 pm CDT

Canadian farmland values rose by an average of six per cent in the first half of 2025 according to a new report from Farm Credit Canada.

By Geralyn Wichers

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to the press, on the day of U.S.-China talks on trade, economic and national security issues, in Madrid, Spain, September 15, 2025.

U.S. to support soybean farmers amid China lag, expect news Tuesday, Bessent says

Oct. 2, 2025 at 9:40 am CDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday the federal government would support American farmers in light of China’s refusal to buy U.S. soybeans amidst a trade war between the countries.

By Reuters