Insights and Stories on Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle outlook remains positive

Nov. 29, 2011 at 8:55 am CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were $2-$4 per hundredweight (cwt) lower on average last week. Run-of-the-mill red and black large-framed heifers averaging 638 pounds with no special qualities sold for $138/cwt landed in southern Alberta. Red and black Angus steers averaging 600 lbs. sold for $147/cwt in central Alberta. Simmental-red […]

CWB’s deregulation moves to Senate

Nov. 29, 2011 at 8:42 am CST

West considers shared livestock price insurance plan

Nov. 27, 2011 at 12:12 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Supply management on table in EU talks, negotiator says

Nov. 27, 2011 at 10:25 am CST

By Rod Nickel

EU extends zero duty on wheat, barley imports

Nov. 25, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST

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Cargill considering a 2012 Prairie wheat pool

Nov. 25, 2011 at 7:29 pm CST

Cargill may run a pool for western Canadian farmers’ spring wheat in 2012 and will also be ready to offer farmers forward price contracts for their grains in an open market, the president of the company’s Canadian division said on Thursday. If a government bill to strip the Canadian Wheat […]

By Rod Nickel

CWB directors fire parting shot over contingency fund

Nov. 25, 2011 at 1:59 pm CST

In what they described as likely meeting for the "last time before being fired," the Canadian Wheat Board is demanding Ottawa compensate Prairie farmers for assets it’s claimed they’re about to lose. The CWB’s board, which today consists of eight farmer-elected directors, five federal appointees and two vacancies, passed a […]

Market fundamentals push wheat PROs lower

Nov. 25, 2011 at 6:22 am CST

Global wheat fundamentals and a thick macroeconomic smog have settled down on top of the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlooks (PROs). The CWB on Thursday rolled out PROs for 2011-12 wheat that are down $1-$14 per tonne from their October levels, with durum values down $1-$25, malting barley […]

Supply management not in ‘dress code’ for TPP club: N.Z.

Nov. 24, 2011 at 9:09 am CST

Getting in on a potentially lucrative Asia Pacific trade pact will not just be a matter of showing up and asking in, one of the participating countries warns Canada and other would-be entrants. New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, in a speech Tuesday in his home country, said countries such […]

Global economic woes keep canola trending lower

Nov. 23, 2011 at 5:28 pm CST

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts remained stuck in a steady downtrend Wednesday as the global economic uncertainty leading to speculative liquidation in many commodities spilled into grains and oilseeds as well. While the fundamentals remain relatively supportive for canola, the ongoing economic uncertainty will likely keep the path of least […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin