Insights and Stories on Markets

Drozd: Harami predicted strong U.S. dollar weighing on grain prices

Oct. 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm CDT

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone this summer who wasn’t aware of the United States’ escalating debt, increasing unemployment and home foreclosures that produced the current economic slowdown we’re in. All summer, as news grew increasingly bearish, with newspaper headlines suggesting the greenback was about to crash and burn, […]

Meat packer SunGold lays off 75 staff

Oct. 5, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

By Sheri Monk

StatsCan survey finds small canola crop

Oct. 4, 2011 at 2:35 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Klassen: Weaker corn, softer dollar strengthen feeder cattle

Oct. 3, 2011 at 4:24 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Jump anticipated in StatsCan production survey

Sep. 30, 2011 at 3:15 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Cut rate extended for CFIA livestock export paperwork

Sep. 30, 2011 at 4:00 am CDT

Shippers of livestock and embryos from Canada can expect their export certification fees to stay the same for about the next two years. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it will continue to cap its user fees at $75 until September 2013 for a specific list of livestock and […]

Ritz’s panel urges grain system access for CWB 2.0

Sep. 28, 2011 at 5:08 pm CDT

Allowing a voluntary Canadian Wheat Board and other Prairie grain marketers the ability to negotiate agreements for elevator, rail and port access is “the single most important issue” for government to consider going forward, an industry working group says. Federal Ag Minister Gerry Ritz on Wednesday published the report from […]

Rio Tinto buys into Sask. potash play

Sep. 27, 2011 at 6:23 pm CDT

Another global mining giant has bought its way into greenfield potash mine development in southeastern Saskatchewan, this time in a joint venture with a second player. North Atlantic Potash, a Canadian arm of Russian fertilizer firm JSC Acron, on Tuesday announced a joint venture deal with British-based mining giant Rio […]

Klassen: Feeder cattle shrug off recessionary fears

Sep. 26, 2011 at 6:18 pm CDT

Feeder cattle prices across Western Canada were steady to $2 higher on average with stronger demand surfacing in the lighter weight categories. Pee-wee steer calves under 350 pounds sold for $186 per hundredweight (cwt) in central Alberta, which is near all-time record highs for any weight category. Black Angus-based age-verified […]