Insights and Stories on Cereals

Gluten-free Cheerios recall not for Canada

Oct. 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm CDT

Gluten-free Cheerios or Honey Nut Cheerios in bilingual English-French packaging aren’t affected by a recent recall over undeclared wheat ingredients, the cereal’s manufacturer says. General Mills Canada said Wednesday that the products it sells in Canada aren’t included in the recall announced Tuesday in the U.S. General Mills recalled several […]

SABMiller rejects Labatt owner’s takeover approach

Oct. 7, 2015 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Martinne Geller philip-blenkinsop

Oat prices remain under pressure

Oct. 6, 2015 at 12:20 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

General Mills recalls 1.8M boxes of gluten-free Cheerios

Oct. 5, 2015 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Anjali Athavaley Ramkumar Iyer

Western Canadian wheat bids stay rangebound

Oct. 5, 2015 at 7:24 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

Oct. 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm CDT

Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian […]

By Allan Dawson

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

Oct. 5, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free […]

By Staff

StatsCan comes in at low end of expectations for canola

Oct. 2, 2015 at 10:10 am CDT

CNS Canada — Despite an upward revision of nearly a million tonnes in Statistics Canada’s latest report, most analysts expect canola production will keep climbing further. StatsCan on Friday morning released its updated grain/oilseed production estimates, with data collected through surveys taken between Sept. 3 and 13. Canola production numbers […]

By Dave Sims

Prairies’ harvest a tale of two wheat crops

Oct. 1, 2015 at 7:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers are in the final stages of harvesting the 2015 wheat crop, and while yields continue to beat earlier expectations, there’s a distinct quality difference between crops harvested early and those harvested late. “In our country, all of the grain was top grade, but anything that […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

Sep. 30, 2015 at 4:23 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Yields are generally beating earlier expectations as the harvest progresses across Western Canada, which should lead to upward revisions to canola and wheat when Statistics Canada releases its latest production survey results Friday. However, those numbers still may be underreported, and further revisions are expected in subsequent […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin