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Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

By MarketsFarm Team August 14, 2018

CNS Canada — A few producers who did not receive payment from Canadian Exotic Grains Ltd. have been compensated through the Canadian Grain Commission’s Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program, the commission said Tuesday. Canadian Exotic Grain’s grain dealer license was revoked April 26 after the company was unable to pay producers. On June 4, Saskatchewan […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Southern Sask. harvest underway

By MarketsFarm Team August 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan farmers are starting to get into fields, especially in the south where three per cent of the crop has been combined. Overall, producers in the province have combined one per cent of the crop, in line with the five-year average. Two per cent has been swathed or is ready to be […] Read more

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Canadian grain exports hit new record in 2017/18: CGC

By MarketsFarm Team August 3, 2018

CNS Canada – Total exports of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds hit a new record in 2017/18 (Aug/Jul), as sharp increases in wheat and barley more than made up for a decline in canola sales, according to the last weekly report from the Canadian Grain Commission for the recently finished crop year. Total exports of […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Drought cuts into Australian chickpea prospects

By MarketsFarm Team August 3, 2018

CNS Canada – Expectations for Australia’s chickpea crop have been drastically cut to one-third of last year’s production. The dry growing season will limit the crop’s potential this year to about 300,000 tonnes, according to a report from Pulse Australia. Nick Goddard, chief executive officer of Pulse Australia, told a local news outlet that important […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

AGT managers seek to take company private

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm July 26, 2018

CNS Canada — Plans are afoot to take publicly-traded Saskatchewan pulse and specialty crop processing firm AGT Food and Ingredients private. AGT, in a release Thursday, said it has received a non-binding proposal from a senior management group, led by company CEO Murad Al-Katib, to acquire all its issued and outstanding common shares. The proposal […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Reuters

Pulse import plunge in India to ripple across Canada, Australia

By rajendra-jadhav July 18, 2018

Mumbai | Reuters — Pulse imports to India, the world’s biggest buyer, may fall to their lowest in nearly two decades after the government raised import taxes and restricted overseas purchases to bolster prices, impacting the plans of its global suppliers. The reduction in imports illustrates the government’s steps to raise the prices of pulses, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 18, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers planted their largest chickpea crop in more than a decade in 2018, with the bigger crop likely to lead to a wider price spread between larger- and smaller-calibre supplies. Statistics Canada has placed chickpea acreage for 2018 at 468,900 acres, which would be well above the 160,000 acres planted in […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: How growers can use weather markets

By Terry Fries July 4, 2018

CNS Canada — With seeding complete and weather now the dominant market force, pulse producers can take advantage of their unique position, if they know how. Brian Clancey of Stat Publishing said farmers have a front-row seat to what is happening in their fields and that gives them the upper hand in marketing this time […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Reuters

India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

By Reuters June 29, 2018

Paris/Mumbai | Reuters — India has extended by six months to the end of 2018 an exemption to its policy for crop cargoes to be fumigated with methyl bromide, a move that should facilitate continued imports of pulses and wheat. The Indian government has issued a letter announcing the exemption would be extended to Dec. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Canadian exports face market changes

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm June 26, 2018

CNS Canada — After a year in which Canada’s largest pulse buyer, India, imposed import tariffs, Canadian pulse crops are seeing a shift in export dynamics. Lentil and pea exports in Canada are down this year compared to last. According to data from the Canadian Grain Commission, as of June 17, lentil exports were at […] Read more

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Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

Southern Sask. harvest underway

Canadian grain exports hit new record in 2017/18: CGC

Drought cuts into Australian chickpea prospects

AGT managers seek to take company private

Pulse import plunge in India to ripple across Canada, Australia

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

Pulse weekly outlook: How growers can use weather markets

India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

Pulse weekly outlook: Canadian exports face market changes

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