Insights and Stories on Markets

Feb. 4, 2012 at 3:20 pm CST

Russia’s government sees no need for grain export restrictions in April and its raised grain export forecast for 2011-12 by 12.5 per cent, it said on its website on Friday, citing Russia’s first deputy prime minister, Viktor Zubkov. "Given a revised harvest figure of 93.9 million tonnes… the forecast for […]

Feb. 4, 2012 at 11:48 am CST

Prairie malting barley growers can expect to see an extra $51.90 per tonne in the next few weeks for their 2011-12 deliveries. The barley adjustment payment, expected to flow by direct deposit on Feb. 21 and by cheques in the mail starting Feb. 24, is on the list of increased […]

Feb. 3, 2012 at 4:35 pm CST

Citing "lower near-term demand," fertilizer giant Mosaic Co. has announced plans to cut back the output from its potash mines in Saskatchewan for the next four months. Mosaic, which in late December said it would also reduce its finished phosphate production until the end of March, said Friday it will […]

Feb. 3, 2012 at 3:12 pm CST

The grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report released Friday by Statistics Canada held few surprises over, with the exception of the estimate for peas. However, there were a few questions raised by the industry regarding the accuracy of the numbers released by the government agency. The numbers confirmed […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Feb. 2, 2012 at 6:16 pm CST

Their system of revenue under renewed jabs from various angles, Canada’s dairy farmers have compiled their retorts into a new online campaign. Dairy Farmers of Canada on Wednesday launched a website dubbed YourMilk.ca, which organizes the case for the country’s dairy industry into three sections: one on the industry’s benefits […]