Insights and Stories on Crops

Aug. 31, 2007 at 2:44 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) finished narrowly mixed with some of the upward price action sparked by talk of fresh exporter demand, market watchers said. The advancing harvest in western Canada and strength in the Canadian dollar helped to weigh on values. […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Aug. 31, 2007 at 11:04 am CDT

The Ontario Cereal Crops Committee has launched a new web service,GoCereals.ca, to publish annual performance trial data for wheat, oats and barley. The committee says the new site is an extension of the traditional performance trial fact sheets published by the provincial ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs. The […]

By FBC staff

Aug. 30, 2007 at 4:18 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board is confident that the federal Conservative government’s appeal of the July 31 court decision which upheld the single-desk marketing of Western Canadian barley will fail. “The judge’s ruling was very clear…any changes to barley or wheat marketing must be made by the process set out in […]

By Resource News International

Aug. 30, 2007 at 3:46 pm CDT

The federal Conservative government has decided to file an appeal of a July 31 Federal Court ruling that rescued the single-desk marketing powers of the Canadian Wheat Board. The government had set August 1 as what it called “Barley Freedom Day,” on which its revised regulations, lifting the CWB’s monopoly […]

By FBC staff

Aug. 30, 2007 at 3:26 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Thursday’s session higher with canola boosted by the surge higher in Chicago Board of Trade soy complex futures, brokers said. Canola saw a moderate trade with intermonth spreading enhancing the level of activity. The total canola […]

By Don Bousquet