Insights and Stories on Crops

Analysts see CWB as cautious on wheat PROs

May. 29, 2009 at 6:24 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Wheat Board is believed to have taken a very cautious approach in upping its pool return outlook (PRO) prices for wheat delivered by producers in the 2009-10 crop year. The PROs for most classes of wheat were increased by the CWB by $2 per […]

Que. plegdes $14M for short-chain marketing

May. 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm CDT

Durum up in both CWB PROs

May. 29, 2009 at 2:43 am CDT

Man. backs northern agriculture programming

May. 29, 2009 at 1:42 am CDT

Richardson plans site expansions in Sask., Man.

May. 28, 2009 at 7:23 pm CDT

Drop in canola cash bids seen as temporary

May. 28, 2009 at 5:53 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The drop in the cash price for canola in Western Canada over the past week was seen as only being temporary, with values likely to move higher now that a correction in the market has occurred. “While some individuals were concerned that canola futures had collapsed […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Wittal: Canola under pressure

May. 28, 2009 at 5:33 pm CDT

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. May 28 — Financial markets came back to life today and regained some of yesterday’s losses. The […]

By Brian Wittal

Olive oil imports were half sunflower: CFIA

May. 28, 2009 at 4:07 pm CDT

A Toronto-area food importer and distributor has been fined for importing an olive/sunflower oil blend labelled as “extra virgin olive oil” in 2006. Jan K. Overweel Ltd., which markets the Emma, Casa Italia and Cortina Foods brands and other imported products, was convicted in Toronto in February under the federal […]

CWB suing Ottawa for ex-chief’s severance: MCO

May. 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has filed suit against the federal government to get back the severance it paid ex-CEO Adrian Measner after the government fired him in late 2006, according to the Manitoba Co-operator. The suit was filed in Court of Queen’s Bench in Winnipeg May 4, the newspaper […]

Drozd: Canola prices up from extended V bottom

May. 27, 2009 at 5:58 pm CDT

V bottoms take two forms: the more classic or true V, and the extended V. In the former formation, three essential components must be present: Prices must be in a downtrend and a futures contract is more apt to be in a free fall, or near vertical decline. A pivot […]

By David Drozd