Insights and Stories on Markets

Canola consolidating in narrow range

Oct. 26, 2011 at 5:56 pm CDT

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts have bounced around within a relatively narrow range lately, and could be seeing some further consolidation going forward as the market looked for fresh news to provide direction. Canola closed right above major support in the most active January contract on Wednesday, and Jerry Klassen, […]

Peace region’s CWB director quits

Oct. 26, 2011 at 3:38 pm CDT

CWB suing to block Tories’ grain marketing bill

Oct. 26, 2011 at 1:44 pm CDT

Commodity groups hail results on market access

Oct. 26, 2011 at 5:38 am CDT

Russia’s grain trade warned over “excessive” exports

Oct. 25, 2011 at 6:03 pm CDT

By Alexei Anishchuk

CWB bill clears second reading in Commons

Oct. 25, 2011 at 5:56 pm CDT

A government bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s grain monopoly cleared another stage in the House of Commons on Monday, as Ottawa races to make the most important change to the Prairie grain industry since the Second World War. The Conservative government’s bill passed second reading, surviving NDP and […]

By Rod Nickel

Former CWB chairman Ken Ritter, 64

Oct. 25, 2011 at 5:18 pm CDT

Memorial services will be held Saturday at Kindersley, Sask. for the farmer and lawyer who became the Canadian Wheat Board’s first farmer-elected chairman. Ken Ritter, who farmed at nearby Major, Sask. and chaired the CWB’s board of directors from 1999 to 2008, died Sunday in hospital in Kindersley of complications […]

U.S. cattle supply up, but no beef bargains seen

Oct. 24, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots rose unexpectedly last month, government data showed Friday, which analysts said set the stage for a larger-than-expected beef supply this winter. Placements, which came in about three per cent more than the average trade estimate, helped to lift cattle supply in feedlots […]

By Theopolis Waters

Klassen: Feeder prices continue the climb

Oct. 24, 2011 at 7:00 pm CDT

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were $2 to $4 per hundredweight (cwt) higher last week on average. Deferred live cattle futures made fresh contract highs on Friday, resulting in steady demand in the feeder complex. Run-of-the-mill steer calves weighing 575 pounds averaged $160/cwt in central Alberta; calves averaging 650 lbs. […]

By Jerry Klassen

Supply management a sore spot for Canada/EU trade pact

Oct. 21, 2011 at 4:13 pm CDT

Canada and the European Union will need to put in “quite a lot of hard work” to settle several key differences in talks on a proposed free trade deal, a senior official said Thursday. Canada, keen to diversify its exports away from the United States, opened a ninth round of […]

By David Ljunggren