Insights and Stories on Markets

Klassen: Lower available supplies bolster feeder market

May. 5, 2014 at 5:57 am CDT

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were a solid $4-$6 per hundredweight (cwt) higher last week in comparison to seven days earlier; however, certain auction barns reflected a hesitant uneven tone as the market moved higher. Feedlot buying interest remains abnormally strong for this time of year and surging deferred live […]

Mustard growers remain optimistic for 2014

May. 3, 2014 at 1:34 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end lower after volatile day

May. 2, 2014 at 7:05 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

SW Ont. tobacco farmers arrested in black-market probe

May. 2, 2014 at 6:35 pm CDT

By Staff

CME fines Ont. Teachers for hog trades

May. 2, 2014 at 3:43 pm CDT

France to ban pigs, byproducts from N. America, Japan over PED

May. 2, 2014 at 3:20 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters –– France will ban imports of live pigs, pork-based byproducts and pig sperm from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan to protect against a virus that has killed millions of piglets in North America and Asia, a farm ministry official said on Friday. The ban, which is […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

U.S. grains: Wheat hits 14-month high on Plains drought, heat outlook

May. 2, 2014 at 2:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged two per cent to their highest levels in more than a year on Friday, bolstered by concerns of drought-reduced production in the southern Plains, where triple-digit temperatures could bake the crop this weekend. Corn extended losses after a tumble on Thursday tied […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Maple Leaf books Q1 loss under PEDv cost pressure

May. 2, 2014 at 5:03 am CDT

A rise in pork prices due mainly to porcine epidemic diarrhea’s effects on the U.S. hog herd has bit deeper into Maple Leaf Foods’ bottom line for its first quarter ending March 31. “Pork markets have been impacted in an unprecedented way due to a virus in the U.S. hog […]

By Staff

Churchill ready for potential record season

May. 1, 2014 at 7:47 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Manitoba’s northern Port of Churchill is gearing up for a record grain shipping season, but will need to receive more grain cars in order to meet those goals, according to the port owner’s president. The shipping season at Churchill, Canada’s only northern deep-water port, typically runs from […]

By Marney Blunt

Thunder Bay shipping underway after ‘worst ice year ever’

May. 1, 2014 at 7:20 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Grain movement is finally underway at the Lake Superior port of Thunder Bay, Ont., after significant delays caused by a record cold winter. The first ship arrived at Thunder Bay on April 21; usually the port opens on around March 25, according to Tim Heney, CEO for […]

By Marney Blunt