Insights and Stories on Markets

Aug. 8, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Feeder cattle prices in Western Canada were $3 per hundredweight lower to $3 higher in comparison to week-ago levels. Early in the week, the downward slide in the equity markets had cattle buyers on the defensive. However, by Friday, Alberta fed cattle prices were $4 to $5 higher in comparison […]

By Jerry Klassen

Aug. 8, 2011 at 5:30 pm CDT

Canada’s largest grain company plans to rework its businesses around a worldwide top-down model rather than as a house split between the Great White North and the Land Down Under. Viterra on Monday announced new titles for most of its top executives, “formalizing its global structure” around the worldwide trio […]

Aug. 8, 2011 at 3:00 pm CDT

Poor crops being grown in Australia and Turkey have led to a significant increase in the value of chickpeas in Western Canada. Omer Al-Katib, director of corporate affairs and investor relations with Alliance Grain Traders in Regina, said the two nations have had separate problems this year, which have led […]

By Brent Harder

Aug. 5, 2011 at 8:00 am CDT

Canada’s agriculture department has lowered its forecast for wheat production in its grain and oilseed outlook. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada pegged the 2011-12 all-wheat crop at 23 million tonnes, down from its July estimate for 24 million tonnes. Crop development is one to two weeks behind normal, but warm weather […]

Aug. 4, 2011 at 4:15 pm CDT

A minor use has been approved for glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant on tame mustard crops in Canada — but not without a warning to export-minded growers. The new minor use allows pre-harvest applications of Monsanto’s 540 gram-per-litre formulation of Roundup WeatherMax  at 0.67 litres per acre of yellow, brown […]