Insights and Stories on Crops

Wheat slips, durum up in November PRO

Nov. 25, 2010 at 7:51 pm CST

Ongoing market volatility worldwide, offset by supportive corn and soybean fundamentals, has pressured wheat values slightly downward in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlook (PRO). Wheat values are mostly down by as much as $4 per tonne in Thursday’s updated 2010-11 PRO, as are values for malting barley […]

Canadian farmers expect strong demand for fertilizer

Nov. 25, 2010 at 4:57 pm CST

By Brent Harder

Australia ownership probe spurs calls for food security

Nov. 25, 2010 at 12:04 am CST

By Reuters

Oats output in Canada down, export total declines

Nov. 24, 2010 at 4:56 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Canada still waiting on biodiesel mandate

Nov. 24, 2010 at 4:22 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Twister, Edwards to consolidate Alberta plants

Nov. 24, 2010 at 1:27 pm CST

The parent for grain bin maker Twister Pipe and grain drying and aeration equipment firm Edwards Group plans to build one new home for both companies’ plants in southern Alberta. Winnipeg’s Ag Growth International on Tuesday confirmed its plans to expand its manufacturing space at Nobleford, about 30 km northwest […]

Low ocean freight rates good news for farmers

Nov. 23, 2010 at 4:00 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) –– A lack of demand has resulted in the softening of ocean freight rates, which is good news for Canadian farmers. David Przednowek, manager of ocean freight and terminal operations with the Canadian Wheat Board, said the lower prices have been attributed to poor supply and […]

By Brent Harder

Cholesterol-lowering claim approved for oats

Nov. 23, 2010 at 3:49 pm CST

The Quaker Oats guy will have something else to grin about he makes some room on the company’s Canadian packaging for an approved new health claim in the new year. Health Canada on Monday formally confirmed it now has “no objection to the use of a health claim linking the […]

Funds liquidating large canola long positions

Nov. 23, 2010 at 3:45 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — Commodity and index fund traders holding large long positions in canola are in the process liquidating some of those positions and taking profits. However, traders were uncertain just how much more liquidating there was to go. At the recent height of the canola market the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Drozd: Record-high cotton prices lent underlying support to soybeans

Nov. 22, 2010 at 7:46 pm CST

Cotton prices on Nov. 4 reached $1.4052 per pound, the highest price since this fibre began trading 140 years ago. Prices have doubled in the past 12 months amid a supply shortage and increasing demand, especially in emerging markets in Asia. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates 2010-11 world ending […]

By David Drozd