Insights and Stories on Canada

Feds open up consultations for sustainable ag strategy

Dec. 19, 2022 at 6:57 pm CST

The federal government has enlisted farm groups on the ground floor of consultations toward development of a long-term strategy to “amplify” the adoption and use of sustainable practices in agriculture over the next year. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Dec. 12 announced the launch of public consultations on strategy development, […]

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

Dec. 13, 2022 at 6:27 pm CST

By Steve Gorman

USDA supply/demand estimates show only minor updates

Dec. 9, 2022 at 2:38 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Less canola to be exported

Dec. 7, 2022 at 6:56 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat plunges to three-month low on export competition

Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:37 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. judge dismisses indictment against Huawei executive

Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:13 pm CST

New York | Reuters — A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained U.S.-China and Canada-China relations. Meng, whose father Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei and is the telecommunications company’s chief executive, entered […]

By jonathan-stempel Karen Freifeld

Huawei executive’s U.S. bank fraud charges to be dismissed

Dec. 1, 2022 at 8:16 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss bank fraud and other charges against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, whose 2018 arrest strained relations between the U.S. and China. Meng struck a deal with the prosecutors last year for the charges against […]

By Karen Freifeld

Environment Canada sees ‘average’ Prairie winter ahead

Dec. 1, 2022 at 6:44 pm CST

MarketsFarm — An ‘average’ winter is in the forecast for most of the Canadian Prairies, according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast for December through February from Environment Canada, released Wednesday. The government department is calling for normal temperatures across all the agricultural areas of the three Prairie provinces — […]

By MarketsFarm

Opinions divided ahead of StatCan production report

Nov. 30, 2022 at 5:59 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the crop production report from Statistics Canada (StatCan) due out Friday, trade expectations are above and below what the federal agency estimated in September. In August, and in September, StatCan issued production reports based on a satellite model and without any input from farmers filling out […]