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Quebec sees net farm income “stability” in ’07

Oct. 25, 2007 at 11:35 pm CDT

Farmers in Quebec can expect to end 2007 with total net farm income in the neighbourhood of $425 million, showing a “relative stability” across the ag sector overall, according to a new economic report from the provincial farm lender. L’Agroindicateur, an index released annually by La Financiere agricole based on […]

B.C. to freeze rural representation

Oct. 25, 2007 at 10:45 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Tight stocks drive record highs for durum: PRO

Oct. 25, 2007 at 5:37 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola lifted by CBOT soy gains

Oct. 25, 2007 at 2:12 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Ontario corn harvest two-thirds done, soy finished

Oct. 25, 2007 at 1:39 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Health Canada launches food recall database

Oct. 24, 2007 at 4:36 pm CDT

Health Canada has put up a new searchable database of food and children’s product recalls for Canadian consumers. The site, at www.healthycanadians.gc.ca, includes separate listings of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s food alerts and recalls, Health Canada’s children’s toy and product recalls and a search function to check for specific […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola lower on slow demand

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:23 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session mostly lower, with small losses in canola prompted by the continued lack of fresh demand, brokers said. Canola had an active trade, with intermonth spreading accounting for the bulk of the volume. Commercials continued to be […]

By Don Bousquet

Ontario seeds record winter wheat acres

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:09 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Record-high wheat prices, combined with extremely favourable seeding conditions, are believed to have resulted in winter wheat area in Ontario hitting a new record high, according to a spokesman with the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board. “While we are still waiting for some final acreage numbers, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Chinese tariffs disadvantage Canadian canola

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:03 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — China’s recent soybean tariff reduction puts Canadian canola producers at a disadvantage, according to Dave Hickling of the Canola Council of Canada. Hickling , the council’s vice-president of canola utilization, said a variety of issues are responsible for Canada’s canola seed exports declining in September and […]

By Alana Vannahme

Grains boost Scotiabank commodity index

Oct. 24, 2007 at 1:56 pm CDT

The agricultural index in Scotiabank’s Commodity Price Index jumped 6.7 per cent month-over-month during September, helping pull the commodity index out of a three-month decline. Patricia Mohr, the company’s vice-president of economics and commodity market specialist, wrote in a research report Wednesday that agriculture and energy helped the overall index […]

By FBC staff