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CMC’s booth at the GEAPS 2017 show in Kansas City. (CMCiel.com)

AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 17, 2018

Best known as the parent for several Canadian and U.S. manufacturers of grain handling and storage equipment, Ag Growth International is expanding its tech portfolio. Winnipeg-based AGI announced Wednesday it has bought Burnaby, B.C.-based CMC Industrial Electronics and Iowa-based Junge Control (JCI) for undisclosed sums. CMC, which formed in 1997 and has facilities at Burnaby […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Rush on to reverse U.S. tax boon for ag co-ops

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Republican U.S. senators are working with some of the world’s biggest agricultural merchants to undo a last-minute provision in the tax overhaul that threatens to distort the grains market and starve private firms of corn, soy and wheat supplies. It was included during final revisions of the tax bill that passed […] Read more

Sahara sand dunes loom over the village of Taghit in western Algeria, about 300 km south of Ain Sefra where snow fell this past week. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Weather

More snow lately over the Sahara than the Prairies

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Parts of the Sahara Desert received rare snowfall over the past week, with up to 40 cm falling in the Algerian desert town of Ain Sefra. That freak snow — only the third time in 40 years — made for some fantastic photographs before melting, but would be more welcome in Western […] Read more

Crops, Oats, Pulses

Prairie processors plan gluten-free partnership

By Dave Bedard January 11, 2018

A Saskatchewan firm processing gluten-free oats is pairing up with a Manitoba pulse miller to expand Prairie producers’ space in the certified gluten-free market. Portage la Prairie-based Best Cooking Pulses and Regina-based Avena Foods on Monday announced a new partnership agreement they say will boost cross-selling and market penetration. Financial terms of the partnership, which […] Read more

CHS Inc., the biggest farm co-operative in the U.S., is seen gaining a competitive edge against private and publicly-traded grain firms from changes to tax law affecting sales of U.S. farmers’ crops and livestock. (CHS Inc. photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Major U.S. grain firms fear harm from new tax law

By Mark Weinraub, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 10, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — The new U.S. tax law is poised to drive more control over the nation’s grain supply to farmer-owned co-operatives, provoking concern among ethanol producers and privately run grain handlers that they could be squeezed out of the competition to buy crops. Until now, the co-operatives, private companies and publicly traded firms […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

By Emma Batha January 9, 2018

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Honeybees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with “unsettling implications” for global food production, a U.S. scientist said on Tuesday. Tests carried out by a team from the University of Illinois showed bees preferred to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone. […] Read more

Crops

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm January 5, 2018

CNS Canada – Farmers shouldn’t be too concerned yet that the recent Agrium, Potash Corp of Saskatchewan merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “(The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it. […] Read more

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall speaks during a news conference in Quebec in 2015. Photo: Reuters/Mathieu Belanger

Crops, Reuters

Fertilizer producer Nutrien to keep Saskatchewan base, says Wall

By Rod Nickel January 4, 2018

Winnipeg | Reuters – Nutrien Ltd, the fertilizer company formed this week by a merger of Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Agrium, has committed to establishing its head office in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and increasing corporate office jobs there, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall said on Thursday. Wall said that in recent meetings, Nutrien’s […] Read more

A Farm King CX2 grain auger. (Farm-King.com)

Crops, Machinery

Equipment firm Buhler’s year-end ledger improves

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 31, 2017

Improved sales in the North American market have helped push the 2017 results for Canadian farm equipment maker Buhler Industries back into the black. The Winnipeg-based company, which makes Versatile tractors and Farm King implements, on Friday booked year-end net income of about $500,000 on gross revenue of $312 million, up from a $2.7 million […] Read more

Crops

PotashCorp, Agrium get last blessing for Jan. 1 wedding

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 27, 2017

Two major Canadian players in the global fertilizer industry now have what they say is the final blessing they need to close their merger deal Jan. 1, on two already-met conditions. Saskatoon-based Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Calgary-based Agrium Inc. announced Wednesday they’ve received clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to close their […] Read more

Prairie forecast: Transition from warm to cool brings chances for rain

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

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Prairie forecast: Transition from warm to cool brings chances for rain

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

Pulses

AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

Rush on to reverse U.S. tax boon for ag co-ops

More snow lately over the Sahara than the Prairies

Prairie processors plan gluten-free partnership

Major U.S. grain firms fear harm from new tax law

Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

Fertilizer producer Nutrien to keep Saskatchewan base, says Wall

Equipment firm Buhler’s year-end ledger improves

PotashCorp, Agrium get last blessing for Jan. 1 wedding

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