Insights and Stories on Markets

U.S. grains: Markets sink on improved weather, fund selling

Apr. 21, 2014 at 4:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell the most in more than a year on Monday as rains expected in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains raised hopes for the upcoming harvest. Improved weather also pressured corn and soybean futures amid projections for accelerated plantings in the U.S. Midwest. Technical and […]

U.S. livestock: Hog futures sink two per cent with sagging cash prices

Apr. 21, 2014 at 3:55 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Billiton resumes Sask. potash work at ‘modulated’ pace

Apr. 21, 2014 at 3:19 am CDT

By Staff

Klassen: Feeder cattle market flattens out

Apr. 20, 2014 at 11:59 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Maple Leaf’s Hamilton wiener plant now closed

Apr. 20, 2014 at 12:30 am CDT

By Staff

Winnipeg egg processor to join Post

Apr. 17, 2014 at 9:35 pm CDT

Winnipeg foodservice egg processor MFI Food Canada is poised to become an arm of breakfast giant Post as part of the U.S. company’s biggest-ever takeover deal. Post Holdings, whose brands include cereals such as Honeycomb, Alpha-Bits, Grape-Nuts and (in Canada) Shreddies, plus other cereal, snack and nutrition supplement products, announced […]

By Staff

Prairie fertilizer supplies getting even more scarce

Apr. 17, 2014 at 6:47 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A shutdown at Agrium’s nitrogen facility at Carseland, Alta. is threatening to slow down what was already a troubled shipping-schedule of fertilizer supplies across Western Canada. The N plant suffered a failure of its auxiliary boiler in late March. The facility isn’t expected to restart production until […]

By Dave Sims

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures climb, live cattle fall before holiday

Apr. 17, 2014 at 6:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Thursday finished higher on fund buying and short-covering ahead of the Easter holiday, traders said. CME will be closed on Friday in observance of the Good Friday holiday. Some investors bought the May and June contracts in anticipation of a […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises; corn, soy weak ahead of long weekend

Apr. 17, 2014 at 5:39 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures firmed on Thursday, supported by short-covering, concerns that a recent cold snap in key growing areas damaged some of the crop and worries that grain shipments from the Black Sea could be disrupted by political unrest in Ukraine, traders said. Wheat also received […]

By Mark Weinraub

CWB bidding for full ownership of Prairie West Terminal

Apr. 17, 2014 at 1:46 pm CDT

Western Saskatchewan farmers with shares in grain handler Prairie West Terminal are to vote next month on a $43.23 million cash bid from CWB for the 90 per cent it doesn’t yet own. CWB, the Winnipeg grain company formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board, announced Thursday it has entered […]

By Staff