Insights and Stories on Crops

Wittal: Speculators moving to sidelines

Dec. 2, 2009 at 7:06 pm CST

Dec. 2 — Outside markets were mixed today, with gold continuing to climb while financial and energy markets ended with losses on the day as the U.S. dollar rose a quarter of a cent. Grains showed losses across the board as profit-taking was the focus of the day. Gold closed […]

ICE’s Winnipeg clearinghouse joins CDS

Dec. 2, 2009 at 4:14 pm CST

Wittal: Market corrections expected for holidays

Dec. 1, 2009 at 6:39 pm CST

By Brian Wittal

Dow buys into B.C. firm’s GM crop technology

Dec. 1, 2009 at 6:15 pm CST

CN makes counter-offer to striking engineers

Dec. 1, 2009 at 5:46 pm CST

CN not interested in negotiating, union says

Dec. 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm CST

The union representing about 1,700 striking locomotive engineers at Canadian National Railway (CN) says it’s now “far too obvious” that the company isn’t interested in negotiating a new contract. In a release Tuesday, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) said it had forwarded proposals late Saturday and again late Sunday […]

Farm Radio International founder George Atkins, 92

Dec. 1, 2009 at 4:38 pm CST

Updated Dec. 2 — Retired CBC farm broadcaster George Atkins, a founder of what’s now Farm Radio International, died Monday of kidney failure in Wiarton, Ont. Atkins, who grew up on a family farm near Oakville, Ont., operated a small farm after graduating from the Ontario Agricultural College and went […]

CWB final payments await approval

Dec. 1, 2009 at 1:06 am CST

The Canadian Wheat Board has made its recommendations to the federal government on final payments for the 2008-09 growing season. In its weekly newsletter Monday, the CWB said final payments will be distributed once approvals have been obtained from Ottawa. The board’s recommendations, submitted last Wednesday to the CWB, include: […]

Lentil values continue to firm

Nov. 30, 2009 at 11:57 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for both large green and red lentils in Western Canada have been continuously strengthening over the past month with strong demand from the export sector providing the firmness. “Despite the large crops in Canada, the demand coming from importer India has been causing values […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Wittal: Even more canola expected in StatsCan data

Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:26 pm CST

Nov. 30 — Markets were mixed at the open, but as the day went on, buying interest seemed to improve and we saw some nice gains in most markets, especially grains. The trade seemed to put the Dubai news aside and ignored it as the day went on, which hopefully […]

By Brian Wittal