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AGT building oat milling plant in Saskatchewan

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Regina pulse processor AGT Foods plans to bulk up its portfolio in the plant-based ingredients business with a new oat milling operation in central Saskatchewan. The company on Thursday announced it would start construction “immediately” on the new operation, to be housed in an expansion of its existing processing plant just east of Aberdeen, about […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan confirms tight grain and oilseed stocks

Canadian corn stocks up on year

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MarketsFarm — Canada’s tight supplies of canola, wheat and other crops following the 2021 Prairie drought received more confirmation from Statistics Canada with the release of updated stocks data on Tuesday. Canola stocks, as of Dec. 31, 2021, of 7.6 million tonnes were down 43 per cent from the previous year and the tightest since […] Read more
CBOT March 2022 oats (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, brown and dark green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Oats

Oat prices, acres to rise in 2022, analyst says

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MarketsFarm — An independent crop market analyst told Saskatchewan oat growers he is bullish for the crop in 2022. Brennan Turner, founder and former CEO of online crop marketing platforms FarmLead and Combyne Ag, delivered a presentation at the Saskatchewan Oat Development Commission’s (SaskOats) annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Wednesday. Turner, a Foam Lake […] Read more
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General, Reuters

New China import rules bring headaches for food, beverage makers

Cooking oil, milled grains among foods moved to higher-risk categories

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Beijing | Reuters — Makers of Irish whiskey, Belgian chocolate and European coffee brands are scrambling to comply with new Chinese food and beverage regulations, with many fearful their goods will be unable to enter the giant market as a Jan. 1 deadline looms. China’s customs authority published new food safety rules in April stipulating […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Weather

Canola declines, durum drops in new StatsCan estimates

Soybean, oats estimates raised

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MarketsFarm — There were very few surprises in Statistics Canada’s latest principal field crop production estimates released Friday — the first in 2021-22 to use a survey of producers. Nevertheless, they quantified just how severe last summer’s drought was in Western Canada. Canola production for the 2021-22 marketing year was estimated to be 12.595 million […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Smaller crops likely in StatsCan survey-based report

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MarketsFarm — Mindful of the summer drought conditions that seriously cut into crop production across the Prairies, average trade estimates call for downward revisions to Statistics Canada’s already-small forecasts for most crops when the it releases its first survey-based estimates of the marketing year on Friday. While prior reports, in September and August, were compiled […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

AAFC lowers canola export forecast

Domestic canola usage raised; other crops largely unchanged

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MarketsFarm — Canadian canola exports during the 2021-22 marketing year are forecast to be smaller than earlier projections, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) reported late Friday. Domestic usage, however, was raised in the report, keeping ending stocks of the crop steady with the October forecast. Total Canadian canola exports in 2021-22 are now forecast at […] Read more
File photo of a wheat crop in Argentina. (Gracieross/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat futures ease amid supply questions after hitting highest since 2012

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago wheat futures eased on Tuesday after rising to their highest level in almost nine years, as the declining condition of the U.S. winter crop raised worries over global supply at a time of tight stocks and strong international demand. U.S. wheat prices fell later in the session on profit taking […] Read more
Axel Diederichsen and Travis Sander threshing wheat.
Barley, Forages, Oats

Seeding the Future: The curious cultivator

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You probably haven’t heard of Axel Diederichsen, yet he holds our past, present and future in the palm of his hand. He’s been entrusted to protect a resource our very existence depends upon, and it on us.  Those are the opening lines of Grainews editor Kari Belanger’s story about Axel Diederichsen, research scientist and curator […] Read more

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