Insights and Stories on Alberta

Canadian cannabis retailers poised to merge

Aug. 22, 2020 at 3:57 am CDT

Two major Canadian cannabis sellers are poised to create the largest pot retailer in the country by revenue. Calgary retailer High Tide Inc., which operates the Canna Cabana chain of stores in three provinces, announced a merger deal Friday to take up Toronto-based Meta Growth Corp., which runs the Meta […]

Prairie cash wheat: Increases for CWRS and CPSR, durum steady

Aug. 21, 2020 at 3:35 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Olymel’s Red Deer plant holds at one COVID case

Aug. 20, 2020 at 7:54 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Early harvest pressures Alberta prices

Aug. 20, 2020 at 6:43 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Alberta’s AFSC to refund hail premiums on drowned crops

Aug. 20, 2020 at 2:34 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Red Deer hog plant books first COVID case

Aug. 18, 2020 at 8:22 pm CDT

A major Prairie hog slaughter and processing plant relatively untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic has marked its first case of the coronavirus in a production line worker. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, said an employee who reported for work Monday last week at its Red […]

By Dave Bedard

COVID-19 lands at another Cargill meat plant

Aug. 14, 2020 at 10:23 pm CDT

Alberta provincial officials have declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill’s meat further-processing plant in Calgary, with five cases of the coronavirus connected to the facility. Provincial chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw tweeted Friday that “there are five cases linked to Cargill Case Ready Meats in #YYC.” Provincial health officials […]

By GFM Staff

Prairie cash wheat: Prices stabilize following tumultuous week

Aug. 14, 2020 at 8:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were much more stable for the week ended Thursday than for previous week. After double-digit losses last week, Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat incurred only small losses, while Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) experienced small gains. Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) went […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Most of Prairies to see little rain

Aug. 12, 2020 at 4:48 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Warm and dry weather that has generated little precipitation across the Prairies is expected to continue in most areas, aside from southern Manitoba, according to two meteorologists. “Looks like the overall pattern isn’t going to be changing too much,” Scott Kehler of Weatherlogics said. “What you see is […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices steady into harvest

Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:56 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The chickpea harvest is underway in some areas of the Prairies, including southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, where pulse crops were planted earlier due to drier spring weather. So far, the chickpea crop has seen co-operative weather conditions. “As we go along with this sunshine and heat, the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm