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Cloudy sky over dry Saskatchewan sage brush or field

Transition to drought expected to be swifter this year

Mar. 20, 2025 at 10:28 am CDT

Agriculture across the globe is closely linked to La Niña and El Niño when it comes to setting the weather stage for the next growing season.

Tariff threats called part of U.S. race with China

Mar. 20, 2025 at 10:06 am CDT

By Greg Price

A tugboat passes shipping containers being unloaded and stacked on a pier at Port Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 19, 2021.

Proposed U.S. port fees on China-built ships choking coal, agriculture exports

Mar. 19, 2025 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Lisa Baertlein Reuters Timothy Gardner

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 dollar strength as Trump-Zelenskiy call results awaited

Mar. 19, 2025 at 4:09 pm CDT

By Renee Hickman Reuters

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola approaching uncertainty

Mar. 19, 2025 at 3:45 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Cattle continue climb, hogs slip back

Mar. 19, 2025 at 3:32 pm CDT

Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures climbed on Wednesday ahead of the USDA’s Cattle on Feed report, slated for release Friday.

By Geralyn Wichers

CBOT Weekly: Weather takes some attention off of tariffs

Mar. 19, 2025 at 2:51 pm CDT

Weather and soil conditions have taken some of the focus off of tariffs at the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended March 19, 2025.

By Adam Peleshaty

Blois makes moves to reduce agri-food red tape

Mar. 19, 2025 at 11:38 am CDT

Agriculture Minister Kody Blois says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will begin to remove some regulatory burdens including harmonizing Canada’s bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) enhanced feed ban with U.S. requirements, and speeding up approvals for animal feed ingredients to reduce tariff costs.

By Geralyn Wichers

File photo of moose in a Saskatchewan field.

Prairie forecast: Spring battle between warm and cold continues

Mar. 19, 2025 at 10:18 am CDT

For this forecast period the weather models are showing a fairly quiet weather pattern will only a couple of chances of light snow as weak systems track along the boundary between the cold Arctic air to our north and milder air to the south. This is the big question mark for this forecast period: just where will this boundary be?

By Daniel Bezte

Grain elevators and train on the prairie near Bashaw, Alberta, Canada

Crop merchant Louis Dreyfus posts drop in annual profit

Mar. 19, 2025 at 9:58 am CDT

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) on Wednesday reported a drop in annual profit, the latest global crop merchant to see earnings curbed by subdued prices last year in staple grains caused by ample harvests and easing demand in China.

By Gus Trompiz Reuters