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WCE close: Profit-taking undermines canola

Nov. 30, 2007 at 4:51 pm CST

(RNI) — Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange finished Friday’s session mainly lower after trading higher just ahead of the close. Weakness in canola was linked to late profit-taking by fund accounts as well as the losses posted in the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean complex, market watchers […]

India’s pulse demand is Canadian exporters’ gain

Nov. 29, 2007 at 5:03 pm CST

By Alana Vannahme

N.S. offers new award for ag innovation

Nov. 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up as dollar plunges

Nov. 29, 2007 at 3:21 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Ritz focused on barley appeal

Nov. 29, 2007 at 12:50 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Quebec dials back fertilizer regulations

Nov. 29, 2007 at 12:46 am CST

The Quebec government has slightly loosened its rules banning the spreading of all materials containing dead ruminants as fertilizer. Environment Minister Line Beauchamp announced on Wednesday that the province has amended its farm regulations to take into account the new federal government controls on specified risk materials (or SRMs, the […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola falls on weak CBOT soyoil

Nov. 28, 2007 at 4:28 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session mixed with canola lower on the weak tone in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade, with intermonth spreading augmenting the trading volume. Commercials were positioning themselves ahead of the index […]

By Don Bousquet

Ag trends point to “new era” of opportunity: TD

Nov. 28, 2007 at 4:14 pm CST

Canada’s farmers are “well-positioned” to take advantage of emerging tastes and trends in the global market, though success will depend at least partly on effective public policy, according to a report Wednesday by the economics wing of TD Bank Financial Group. The report by Derek Burleton of TD Economics admits […]

By FBC staff

Meat testing at U.S. border back to normal

Nov. 28, 2007 at 3:10 pm CST

The regime for U.S. government inpsections on imports of Canadian meat will be back to normal Wednesday after audits found no safety risk to the U.S. meat-eating public, U.S. officials announced Tuesday. In a letter to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) meat programs division, dated Tuesday, U.S. Department of […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up on weak loonie, export talk

Nov. 27, 2007 at 5:03 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with grains narrowly mixed and canola firm on continued ideas that exports are being made as the Canadian dollar falls, brokers said. Canola saw a moderate trade with intermonth spreading a minor component of the volume. The […]

By Don Bousquet