Insights and Stories on Korea

B.C. cherries cleared for export to Korea

Aug. 22, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Canada’s seven-year-old free trade pact with South Korea already provides for reduced tariffs on cherries from British Columbia — a commodity that’s just been approved for export to Korea for the first time starting this month. Canadian agriculture and food safety officials announced Aug. 10 that talks with Seoul on […]

South Korea lifts temporary suspension of Canadian beef

Jan. 19, 2022 at 1:19 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME hogs approach four-week high

Dec. 22, 2021 at 5:22 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Korea suspends Canadian beef imports after BSE case

Dec. 22, 2021 at 2:23 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures limit up on pork export optimism

Sep. 11, 2020 at 1:06 am CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Swine fever found in Germany putting pork exports at risk

Sep. 10, 2020 at 4:31 pm CDT

Berlin/Hamburg | Reuters — Germany confirmed on Thursday that African swine fever (ASF) had been found in a dead wild boar near its border with Poland, threatening pork exports to China from Europe’s biggest pork producer, which were worth US$1.2 billion last year. Authorities in the German state of Brandenburg […]

By Michael Hogan Thomas Escritt

Hog market at seasonal lows, turnaround expected

Sep. 17, 2019 at 10:05 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The Canadian hog market may be at its seasonal lows, but tightening worldwide supplies should underpin values over the next few months. “We’re at a seasonal time of year when prices move lower,” said Brad Marceniuk, livestock economist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, pointing to higher U.S. slaughter numbers and […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Producers watching skies for signals

Jun. 28, 2018 at 8:18 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Farmers and traders are keeping a watchful eye on the weather trying to sort out feed grain supplies. “This time of year, it’s a weather market and weather has been improving in much of Saskatchewan and in some of the more critically dry areas. They got a […]

By Terry Fries

China drops import tariffs on feed ingredients from Asian neighbours

Jun. 27, 2018 at 5:15 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China on Tuesday said it would remove import tariffs on animal feed ingredients including soybeans from five Asian neighbours, in a sign that Beijing wants to boost foreign supplies of the commodities as a trade dispute with the U.S. escalates. The Ministry of Finance said it […]

By Dominique Patton Josephine Mason

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

Jun. 23, 2018 at 2:28 am CDT

Wheat sales are expected to soon resume to Japan and South Korea. Both nations suspended Canadian wheat imports following the June 15 announcement that Canada had discovered several genetically modified (GM) wheat plants in southern Alberta. But both are expected to come back to the market shortly, while exports to […]

By Allan Dawson

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