Insights and Stories on Markets

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 […]

ICE weekly outlook: Soyoil driving canola market

Apr. 16, 2014 at 4:34 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: Soybeans up 1.1 per cent on supply woes; wheat, corn weak

Apr. 16, 2014 at 4:12 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Boosting West Coast exports seen key for moving bigger crops

Apr. 16, 2014 at 3:06 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Argentine port workers to strike over wages

Apr. 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm CDT

U.S. livestock: Pork price rebound rallies CME hogs

Apr. 16, 2014 at 3:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Wednesday settled higher after a choppy day of trading, supported by unexpectedly strong demand for pork at wholesale, traders said. Wednesday morning’s wholesale pork price turned $2.38 per hundredweight (cwt) higher at $124.11, after falling $2.68 the day before, according […]

By Theopolis Waters

Rise in farmland values most pronounced in Sask., Man., Que.

Apr. 16, 2014 at 1:50 pm CDT

Farm Credit Canada’s annual charting of the ebb and flow of Canada’s farmland values saw price increases ahead of the curve in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec pushing nationwide values to their biggest year-over-year jump in recent history. The federal farm lending agency on Monday released its 2013 Farmland Values report, […]

By Staff

Rising crop volumes pose stiff challenges for exports

Apr. 16, 2014 at 11:23 am CDT

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — New strategies are going to be needed if Canada’s grain, pulse and oilseed crop sectors want to meet growing global food demand. That was one of the main themes circulating through the first day of presentations here at the inaugural Canadian Global Crops Symposium. Representatives […]

By Dave Sims

ADM set to take full control of Toepfer

Apr. 15, 2014 at 7:27 pm CDT

U.S. agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland plans to buy the stake it doesn’t yet own in international grain trading house Toepfer International, and to forge ahead with the sale of its chocolate business, in its latest round of “portfolio management.” ADM, which has owned 80 per cent of Toepfer since […]

By Staff

PEDv seen pushing U.S. 2014 pork production down two per cent

Apr. 15, 2014 at 6:23 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. pork production is likely to decline about two per cent this year due to the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its monthly livestock outlook report. Live hog prices were expected to increase as a result of the pig virus, […]

By Meredith Davis