Insights and Stories on Markets

Japan-bound grain ships reported unable to unload

Mar. 16, 2011 at 5:44 pm CDT

At least nine vessels carrying grain bound for Japan are unable to discharge their cargoes due to problems at the country’s ports hit by last week’s earthquake and tsunami, trade sources said Wednesday. Concerns about delays or cancellations to Japanese shipments sent benchmark corn and wheat futures contract prices lower […]

Japan places tender for Canadian wheat

Mar. 15, 2011 at 2:47 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Japanese disaster stalls Canadian canola business

Mar. 14, 2011 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Beef checkoff agency to restructure as marketing body

Mar. 14, 2011 at 4:45 am CDT

Klassen: Feeder cattle remain strong despite Japanese uncertainty

Mar. 14, 2011 at 12:30 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. corn, soy, wheat fall in quake’s wake

Mar. 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm CST

U.S. grain futures fell after an earthquake in Japan raised fears that the world’s third largest economy would slow commodity purchases, extending a sell-off in which wheat prices notched their biggest weekly loss in more than two years. Grain companies bought the futures at the dips but were still overwhelmed […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. hogs tumble on Japan demand worry after quake

Mar. 11, 2011 at 5:19 pm CST

U.S. hog futures fell Friday, closing at their lowest in four days on worries that sales could slow to Japan, the top export market for U.S. pork, after a massive earthquake damaged ports and roadways. “We have to assume lower demand from Japan from consumer fear and confusion. Additionally, we […]

By bob-burgdorfer

Canola basis levels seen improving by mid-2011

Mar. 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm CST

Canola basis levels are now at levels that aren’t particularly favourable to producers, but one analyst believes levels will narrow within the next couple of months. Mike Jubinville, president of Pro Farmer Canada in Winnipeg, said commercial companies presently have a surplus of product, but will be looking to buy […]

By Brent Harder

Richardson to buy eastern Sask. grain terminal

Mar. 11, 2011 at 10:51 am CST

Revised, March 11 — Canada’s second-largest grain handler has signed a $25 million deal to buy one of Saskatchewan’s independent high-throughput terminals — itself partly-owned by the No. 3 handler. Winnipeg’s Richardson International plans to buy North East Terminal’s elevator at Wadena, Sask., about 100 km east of Humboldt, as […]

U.S. makes biggest buy of Prairie feed wheat in decade

Mar. 10, 2011 at 5:17 pm CST

Canadian feed wheat is flowing into the southeastern United States in the largest quantities for more than a decade, highlighting tight U.S. corn supplies and a surplus of feed wheat in Canada, several trade sources said on Wednesday. Wilmington Bulk LLC, a consortium of North Carolina poultry and swine producers […]

By Rod Nickel