Insights and Stories on Canada

China-Australia row to reshuffle trade in bulging barley market

May. 22, 2020 at 10:11 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — A prohibitive Chinese import tariff on Australian barley will benefit other suppliers without changing the bleak global outlook caused by large stocks and depressed beer demand, analysts and traders said. Beijing said on Monday it would apply an 80.5 per cent tariff on Australian barley imports […]

Feed weekly outlook: Barley prices strong

May. 21, 2020 at 8:11 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

President’s cattle call finds expected marks in U.S.

May. 21, 2020 at 4:55 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Trump floats halt to U.S. cattle imports as pandemic hurts ranchers

May. 19, 2020 at 12:58 pm CDT

By Steve Holland Tom Polansek

Canada, U.S. agree on extension for ban on non-essential travel

May. 19, 2020 at 11:56 am CDT

By Reuters

China hits Australia with barley tariff

May. 18, 2020 at 9:33 pm CDT

Beijing/Sydney | Reuters — China added to tensions with Australia on Monday by announcing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties totalling 80.5 per cent on Australian barley imports from Tuesday (May 19), which is expected to all but halt a billion-dollar trade between them. China’s ministry of commerce said it had confirmed […]

By Colin Packham Dominique Patton

More Mexican beef headed to U.S. dinner tables as supply crunch bites

May. 13, 2020 at 11:37 pm CDT

Mexico City/Chicago | Reuters — More Mexican steaks and other beef cuts are headed north of the border after the coronavirus outbreak has hobbled U.S. meat processing plants, potentially offsetting fears of shortages affecting businesses from fast-food chains to grocery stores but angering U.S. ranchers. The Mexican industry chalks up […]

By David Alire Garcia P.J. Huffstutter

Global wheat, corn, soy production expected to increase

May. 12, 2020 at 3:45 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Global crop production in the latest monthly supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to increase for wheat, corn and soybeans. USDA released its world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) on Tuesday. The expectation is that global wheat production will be […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Canada’s growers look to reopening garden centres to salvage dire year

May. 8, 2020 at 2:21 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Hard-hit Canadian flower and nursery growers hope a surge in demand from budding gardeners in Ontario, the country’s biggest market, can help the industry avert disaster caused by the coronavirus with retailers reopening on Friday in the populous province. Most non-essential businesses in Canada were shut […]

By Kelsey Johnson

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea acreage expected lower

Apr. 30, 2020 at 8:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — High global prices in the 2017-18 marketing year caused a global spike in chickpea production in 2018. It’s since taken a while for consumers to “chew through supplies,” which has put pressure on prices, according to Chuck Penner of LeftField Commodities. In a kabuli chickpea global outlook webinar […]