Insights and Stories on Crops

Nov. 4, 2010 at 11:45 am CDT

Manitoba’s inland port at Churchill on Hudson Bay handled its second-highest volume of wheat in over 30 years during the port’s 2010 shipping season, the Canadian Wheat Board reports. The CWB on Wednesday reported a total of 600,000 tonnes of milling wheat and durum having moved through the port. That’s […]

Nov. 4, 2010 at 10:30 am CDT

(Commodity News Service Canada) — Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada platform are showing no signs of letting up in their well-established uptrend, and while a profit-taking correction was possible, a market analyst said the path of least resistance still remains pointed higher. Darren Frank of FarmLink Marketing […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Nov. 4, 2010 at 10:24 am CDT

(Commodity News Service Canada) — A smaller than anticipated harvest with questionable quality has helped to strengthen cash bids in Western Canada for canary seed. “We’ve seen bids over the past month climb as high as the 25 cent per pound area,” according to Earl Schnellert, a grain merchandiser with […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 4, 2010 at 3:31 am CDT

The major miner aiming to buy up Canadian fertilizer giant PotashCorp now has a month to try and change the federal government’s mind about the “net benefit” of such a takeover. Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement, up against the deadline to make his determination on Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton’s […]

Nov. 3, 2010 at 10:24 pm CDT

With both expecting even more substantial improvements to come in the crop input market, Canadian fertilizer giants Agrium and PotashCorp have both reported higher third-quarter sales and profits alike. Agrium on Wednesday posted net earnings of $57 million on $2.009 billion in net sales for its third quarter ending Sept. […]