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Beef check-off rules to change in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C.

Jun. 25, 2025 at 11:28 am CDT

Beef check-off rates in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan will change to align with the seller's home province as of August 1, regardless of where the sale takes place.

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General Mills forecasts weak annual profit as economic uncertainty weighs

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:41 am CDT

By Neil J. Kanatt Reuters

A combine loads wheat into a truck during harvesting in a field of a local agricultural enterprise in the Cherlaksky district of the Omsk region, Russia.

Agricultural consultancy Sovecon raises 2025 Russian wheat crop forecast

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:35 am CDT

By Reuters

Manitoba crops in good shape: Report

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:29 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

A field of young corn plants in front of a sunset.

Prairie forecast: Looking warm and dry for Canada Day

Jun. 25, 2025 at 9:22 am CDT

By Daniel Bezte

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: Chicago wheat falls on harvest pressure; corn hits contract lows

Jun. 24, 2025 at 5:11 pm CDT

Chicago wheat futures sank on Tuesday on pressure from the ongoing harvest in the U.S. Plains and Black Sea as well as a lack of weather threats, analysts said.

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tick down on technical selling, cattle mixed

Jun. 24, 2025 at 4:37 pm CDT

Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures edged lower on Tuesday on technical selling after setting contract highs in the previous session as traders weighed whether a seasonal peak in cash hog prices has petered out, analysts said.

By Karl Plume Reuters

USDA notes shifts in Mexican corn

Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm CDT

Corn production in Mexico is projected to increase 6.5 per cent in 2025/26, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Mexico City reported. Meanwhile, the country’s imports are expected to dip 1.4 per cent.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Bill to protect supply management passes, exporters disappointed

Jun. 24, 2025 at 2:32 pm CDT

Exporters feel Bill C-202 undermines the country's commitment to rules-based international trading and sends the wrong message to trading partners.

By Karen Briere

Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025.

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.

By Reuters Rodrigo Gutierrez