Insights and Stories on Markets

Prairie grain checkoff fund may lapse without new law

Sep. 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm CDT

The federal government will need to get legislation in place for next summer if it wants to maintain a checkoff fund backing Prairie wheat and barley research without a single marketing desk. The Western Grains Research Foundation, which oversees wheat and barley checkoffs collected on the Prairies, is asking the […]

Pullet growers draft application for split from eggs

Sep. 1, 2011 at 4:42 pm CDT

Coop federee buys Ont. grain merchandising firm

Aug. 31, 2011 at 1:29 pm CDT

Small Canadian chickpea crop supporting prices

Aug. 30, 2011 at 12:47 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Feeder cattle prices stay firm

Aug. 30, 2011 at 8:44 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Low flax supply doesn’t mean price increase

Aug. 29, 2011 at 6:30 pm CDT

The latest production estimates in flax are lower than originally projected, but that doesn’t mean the market will see a large increase in value. In its Aug. 24 report, Statistics Canada said there were 365,000 tonnes of flax grown in Canada in 2011 — lower than trade estimates which ranged […]

By Brent Harder

Prairies to grow more wheat, barley: CWB

Aug. 29, 2011 at 5:28 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board raised its 2011-12 outlook for wheat and barley on Friday, as a warm, dry summer looks to produce bigger harvests than a year ago. Spring floods left an estimated six million acres unplanted across the Prairies, but a hot summer with timely rains has helped crops […]

By Rod Nickel

Canada’s canola crop record-sized, but smaller than expected

Aug. 26, 2011 at 3:35 pm CDT

Canada’s canola output in the 2011-12 crop year will be record large, but the estimate released by Statistics Canada in its first crop production survey fell below what market participants had been anticipating. The government agency pegged Canada’s 2011-12 canola crop at a record 13.193 million tonnes, up from the 2010-11 […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Prairie Malt plans layoffs as “major customer” exits

Aug. 26, 2011 at 10:40 am CDT

Facing a substantial cut in demand for its product, a major Saskatchewan supplier of malt to the domestic and international beer industries plans to lay off about half its staff by the end of this year. Prairie Malt Ltd., operating at Biggar, Sask., about 90 km west of Saskatoon, announced […]

Syngenta suing Bunge over rejection of biotech corn

Aug. 23, 2011 at 6:00 am CDT

Syngenta Seeds, a unit of the world’s largest agrochemicals company Syngenta AG, has filed suit against major grain handler Bunge for refusing to accept a type of its biotech corn. Syngenta claims Bunge’s North America operations are illegally refusing to handle a type of genetically modified corn that is designed […]

By Carey Gillam