Insights and Stories on Markets

Apr. 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm CDT

The worst drought in more than 40 years intensified across Texas over the last week, with high winds and heat causing “massive crop losses,” with little relief in sight, according to weather experts Thursday. A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said […]

By Carey Gillam

Apr. 27, 2011 at 10:55 pm CDT

With many producers planning on seeding large amounts of canola and wheat this spring amid historically high prices, the crop that appears to be taking the largest hit in Manitoba because of this is sunflowers. In the 2011 planted area intention report from Statistics Canada released Tuesday, the government agency […]

By Brent Harder

Apr. 27, 2011 at 5:47 pm CDT

Alberta’s current traceability platform can be used at cattle auction markets without much or any effect on the rate at which cattle are unloaded or sold, the province reports. The provincial ag department on Tuesday released data from its 10-month Alberta Auction Market Pilot Project, run at six markets in […]

Apr. 27, 2011 at 9:00 am CDT

Producers in Canada are expected to seed a lot of wheat and canola in 2011, according to the spring planting intentions report Tuesday from Statistics Canada. One of the crops expected to see a significant increase in acreage this spring is canola, but Mike Jubinville of Pro Farmer Canada in […]

By Brent Harder

Apr. 26, 2011 at 11:50 am CDT

A report last week from the chair of the World Trade Organization’s agriculture negotiations committee yields nothing positive for Canada’s supply-managed farm sectors, nor the Canadian Wheat Board, those groups’ farmer spokesmen say. The committee chairman, New Zealand’s WTO ambassador David Walker, on Thursday reported on consultations he’d undertaken on […]