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Flax end-users rationing demand

Jul. 1, 2008 at 2:20 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Tight flaxseed supplies, along with continued strength in the outside oilseed markets, should keep flaxseed values well supported over the next crop year. However, the high prices are causing end-users to ration demand, according to sources. Canadian farmers planted 1.51 million acres of flax, according to […]

Monsanto to charge RR seed fees by bag

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm CDT

By FBC staff

B.C. BSE case was five-year-old dairy cow

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:17 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Senate passes biofuel mandate bill

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:04 pm CDT

By FBC staff

GreenField to produce waste-based ethanol

Jun. 27, 2008 at 3:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Drozd: Corn fundamentals catching up to charts

Jun. 27, 2008 at 3:29 pm CDT

The fundamentals are playing catch-up to substantiate what the charts were predicting months ago. It was Jan. 2, 2008 and corn prices began the New Year trading above the previous month’s high. This higher opening created a “Gap” in price between the December high of $4.57 and January’s low of […]

By David Drozd

CWB’s June PROs increase across board

Jun. 26, 2008 at 6:10 pm CDT

New 2008-09

By FBC staff

Canterra Seeds names new CEO

Jun. 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

A marketing manager with Cargill’s Canadian grain handling, seed and ag inputs wing has been named the new CEO of Winnipeg’s Canterra Seeds. The company announced Thursday that Richard Kieper, marketing manager for seed with Winnipeg-based Cargill AgHorizons, will be Canterra’s new CEO starting in early August, replacing Ron Gorst. […]

By FBC staff

Oat prices firm though U.S. demand to fall

Jun. 26, 2008 at 5:13 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — U.S. demand for Canadian oats will be lower in the 2008-09 crop year; however, prices are expected to generally resist downward pressure due to soaring U.S. corn values, according to industry sources. Oat production in Canada for 2008-09 was pegged at 3.65 million tonnes by Agriculture […]

By Alana Vannahme

XL Foods to buy Lakeside Packers

Jun. 26, 2008 at 1:34 pm CDT

U.S. meat giant Tyson Foods plans to sell one of the largest beef packing plants in Canada to an Alberta rival. Saying its Lakeside Farm Industries plant “no longer fits the long-term strategy of our company,” Tyson CEO Richard Bond announced in a release Wednesday that the company will sell […]

By FBC staff