Insights and Stories on Crops

Limagrain offers to buy out seed maker Vilmorin

Apr. 30, 2023 at 1:51 am CDT

Paris | Reuters — French agricultural co-operative Limagrain has offered to buy the 28.78 per cent of Vilmorin it does not already own in a deal that values one of the world’s biggest seed suppliers at 1.43 billion euros (C$2.13 billion). Limagrain said on Friday it was offering 62.60 euros […]

Prairie cash wheat: Bids drop sharply

Apr. 28, 2023 at 8:16 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Deal reached to resume Ukraine grain transit with five EU countries

Apr. 28, 2023 at 8:00 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago grains up off new lows, end week higher

Apr. 28, 2023 at 7:10 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison

PSAC federal worker strike could hit at grain transport

Apr. 28, 2023 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Don Norman

‘Unexpectedly high’ fuel costs lift railways’ revenue index

Apr. 27, 2023 at 9:05 pm CDT

The index that determines how much Prairie grain handling revenue Canada’s big two railways get to keep will be raised in the coming crop year, mainly on way-higher-than-expected fuel costs. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Thursday announced the volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) for Canadian National Railway (CN) for […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat, corn hit fresh lows

Apr. 27, 2023 at 5:52 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures fell for a seventh straight session on Thursday and touched a 21-month low on export competition while corn hit a nine-month low, walloped by cancellations of U.S. corn sales to China. The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) […]

By Cassandra Garrison

ICE weekly outlook: StatCan’s canola area estimate questioned

Apr. 27, 2023 at 3:27 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada on Wednesday released its first survey-based seeding intentions report for the 2023-24 marketing year, reporting an anticipated 0.9 per cent rise in canola acres, to 21.6 million. The figure occupied the lower end of trade expectations, but StatCan recently adopted a new methodology of conducting the […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Grain area to increase this year

Apr. 27, 2023 at 3:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Early signs point to increased Canadian feed grain production in 2023-24, with record corn acreage intentions and increases in both barley and wheat area on the year, according to the latest estimates from Statistics Canada. Planted corn area in the country is forecast at 3.725 million acres in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

European Commission to ban Ukrainian grain exports to Romania

Apr. 26, 2023 at 7:23 pm CDT

Bucharest | Reuters — The European Commission will ban Ukrainian grain and oilseeds exports to Romania until June 5, Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea said on Wednesday. Romania has stopped short of enforcing a ban, whereas Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia took unilateral steps to protect local markets from a […]

By Reuters