Insights and Stories on Weather

Sep. 18, 2012 at 6:12 pm CDT

Soybeans fell 1.7 per cent on Tuesday for their biggest two-day selloff in seven weeks as a record pace in the harvest and expectations of improved yields following late summer rains suggested the market may have seen its 2012 highs. Analysts monitored technical charts for any sign that the market […]

By kt-arasu

Sep. 18, 2012 at 4:29 pm CDT

High feed costs have caused severe problems in the Canadian hog industry this year, but the cattle industry doesn’t seem to be following in its footsteps. Two large hog production facilities in Canada had to file for financial help in mid-September because operation costs were becoming too expensive. High feed […]

By Terryn Shiells

Sep. 17, 2012 at 5:37 pm CDT

France has called an emergency meeting of G20 farm ministers for mid-October to discuss curbing price swings on grain markets, the French president’s office said, after a year of drought and record prices renewed fears of a crisis in food supplies. France currently presides over a grains body created last […]

By Gus Trompiz, julien-ponthus

Sep. 15, 2012 at 6:47 pm CDT

Organizers are setting up a website and toll-free number to co-ordinate donations of hay from Western Canada for use by livestock producers in need in parched regions of Ontario and Quebec. The program, dubbed “Hay East” after the 2002 “Hay West” program that saw forages shipped to the Prairies from […]

Sep. 15, 2012 at 9:47 am CDT

Speculators cut their net long positions in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn, soybeans and wheat, taking money out of markets that have surged due to a drought that decimated crops across the U.S. Midwest, regulatory data released on Friday showed. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) weekly commitments […]