Insights and Stories on Markets

Results of CWB vote delayed till Monday

Sep. 10, 2011 at 10:07 am CDT

Prairie farmers waiting to see the results of the Canadian Wheat Board’s producer plebiscite, due out Friday, will need to wait until Monday (Sept. 12). Vote counting, tabulation and scrutiny of producers’ ballots have been underway since Thursday, according to plebiscite co-ordinator Ian Craven of MNP, the accounting and consultancy […]

Protein premiums disappear for U.S.spring wheat crop

Sep. 9, 2011 at 6:07 pm CDT

By Reuters

N.B. chicken processor presses for supply, threatens closure

Sep. 9, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

Feds back market data system for hort growers

Sep. 9, 2011 at 10:00 am CDT

Large lentil stocks overhanging market

Sep. 8, 2011 at 5:02 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

StatsCan report shows larger-than-expected canola stocks

Sep. 7, 2011 at 4:38 pm CDT

The grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday confirmed larger-than-expected supplies for canola and all wheat and suggests the agency underestimated the sizes of those crops during the 2010-11 season, industry sources said. Statistics Canada pegged Canadian canola stocks as of July 31, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Drozd: Economic slowdown, plunging stock markets could weigh on grain prices

Sep. 7, 2011 at 4:02 am CDT

Fears of a global economic slowdown have nervous investors heading for the sidelines. As a result, equity markets have been under pressure since peaking in early May 2011. The two-week reversal that occurred at the height of the 27-month-long rally in the S+P 500 gave savvy investors an indication this […]

By David Drozd

Sask. firm backed for beef carcass profiling system

Sep. 7, 2011 at 4:00 am CDT

A system to help feedlot operators to peg the best time to ship fat cattle will get federal backing to go commercial on a wider scale. Saskatoon-area MP Brad Trost on Tuesday announced $750,000 in Agri-Opportunities funding for Quantum Genetics Canada to commercialize its management services system. The Saskatoon-based company’s […]

MGEX membership approves non-U.S. wheat deliveries

Sep. 6, 2011 at 4:00 pm CDT

Members of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange voted 262-6 in favor of a rule change announced last month that will allow delivery of non-U.S. wheat against MGEX spring wheat futures, the exchange said Friday. The members’ vote, completed Thursday, followed a unanimous vote on the proposal by the MGEX board of […]

Klassen: Feedgrain costs influence feeder prices

Sep. 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm CDT

Western Canadian yearling prices were $2 higher to $3 lower in comparison to seven days earlier, while feeder cattle under 700 pounds were relatively unchanged. Major feedlots continue to set the tone, paying light premiums for good-quality age-verified cattle. This caused an uneven tone and regional differences were also noted. […]

By Jerry Klassen