Insights and Stories on Alberta

Alberta input retail chain expands westward reach

Mar. 10, 2019 at 12:27 am CST

A pair of independent crop input retail outlets in west-central Alberta will be networking with seven others by month-end. Crop Management Network (CMN), a joint venture between an employee-owned network of retail outlets and La Coop federee’s Agrico Canada arm, announced Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy Performance […]

Sunny days seen ahead for sunflower crops

Mar. 6, 2019 at 2:16 pm CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

One Alberta PED case deemed ‘false positive’

Mar. 4, 2019 at 5:02 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Alberta confirms third and fourth PED cases

Mar. 1, 2019 at 5:31 pm CST

By GFM Staff

PED not yet done with Alberta

Feb. 22, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Markets steady amid cold Alberta weather

Feb. 14, 2019 at 5:29 pm CST

Excessively cold temperatures in Alberta may be causing headaches for both feed grain buyers and sellers, but prices remain relatively steady for what’s moving. The cold weather hasn’t really led to a significant increase in demand, but “it’s definitely made the farmer grumpy,” said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

Feb. 7, 2019 at 8:15 pm CST

The first, and so far only, Alberta hog farm to catch porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) could see animal shipments restart on a supervised basis “in the coming week.” The provincial ag ministry on Thursday said its investigation of the PED case, discovered Jan. 3 at a 400-head farrow-to finish operation, […]

By GFM Staff

Livestock tax deferral map expands again for 2018

Jan. 30, 2019 at 7:05 pm CST

Some northern and southwestern Ontario producers who had to sell breeding livestock due to drought in the 2018 tax year can now defer chunks of the income from those sales when filing their income taxes. The federal government on Wednesday rolled out its final list and map of designated regions […]

By GFM Staff

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

Jan. 18, 2019 at 8:26 am CST

The probe into Alberta’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea hasn’t yet shown any paths by which the PED virus might have got to the farm — nor any new cases anywhere else in the province. The provincial government on Jan. 7 confirmed the first case of PED to appear […]

By GFM Staff

Oil on rail likely won’t interfere with grain movements

Jan. 11, 2019 at 7:56 pm CST

CNS Canada — When considering the pattern of how grain is shipped by rail in Canada, it’s very unlikely increased oil shipments would interfere, according to Quorum Corp. “That’s largely because the flow of grain is predominantly to the West Coast and Thunder Bay,” said Quorum president Mark Hemmes. About […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm