Insights and Stories on Contracts

Mar. 30, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

The month-end deadline for Saskatchewan farmers to finalize contracts with the provincial Crown crop insurance agency for 2020 has been moved to April 13. Provincial Agriculture Minister David Marit and federal Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced the extension on farmers’ deadline to “apply, reinstate, cancel or make changes” […]

By GFM Staff

Mar. 11, 2020 at 3:43 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canola values have been at the mercy of volatile financial markets this week, trading in lockstep with headlines of plummeting crude oil values and stock indices. “We’re getting into a bit of a pattern in the markets,” Ken Ball of P.I. Financial in Winnipeg said, explaining that prices […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Mar. 6, 2020 at 6:37 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Fund traders were buying back short positions in canola, soybeans and corn during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In the wheat market, however, they were on the other side. The net managed […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 19, 2020 at 7:55 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canola prices came off of the long weekend in the green, but quickly gave back those gains at midweek, remaining stagnant and rangebound. While rail blockades across the country have hampered rail activity and backed up grain shipments, cold weather has slowed down farmer movement for canola. That […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Feb. 14, 2020 at 4:52 pm CST

Syngenta’s Trevor Heck isn’t choosing a route for collecting seed royalty rates — but says the federal government needs to “move forward on some type of value capture” model. “Right now, you know, if we don’t have that within the seed industry, it’s going to be very difficult to be […]

By D.C. Fraser