Dwayne Klassen

(Resource News International) — Manitoba’s northern Port of Churchill is gearing up for its 2008 season with Canadian Wheat Board grains, non-board grains and a host of other items on the list of commodities expected to be moved through the facility, according to an official with the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation. “We are definitely looking […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Failing a favourable Federal Court ruling later this month, the federal government plans to move soon with legislation to end the barley monopoly powers of the Canadian Wheat Board, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. Ritz said the promise to bring forward legislation follows what he called the CWB’s continued refusal […] Read more

(Resource News International) — U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch is the first company to offer the Canadian Wheat Board’s new CashPlus malting barley program to Western Canadian producers, an official with the CWB confirmed. “The rather significant tonnage is filling up fast, so that would seem to indicate that farmers are interested in signing up for this […] Read more

(Resource News International) — William Hill will soon be leaving his post as president and chief operating officer of ICE Futures Canada, according to an official with the exchange. Hill will remain with ICE Futures Canada in his current role until the transition to a new president and COO for the former Winnipeg Commdity Exchange […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada expects the area seeded by Canadian farmers to all wheat will be up from the year-ago level, according to an acreage outlook from its market analysis division. Small increases in canola and barley area were also forecast, while a drop in oats and summerfallow acres were projected. […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Extremely cold temperatures and high winds, slowing the movement of rail cars to export terminals in British Columbia, are prompting some concern for Canada’s grain and oilseed shippers. Temperatures across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been in the -30° to -40°C range and when the wind has been factored in, temperatures […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Cropping choices by Canadian farmers this spring may not necessarily be impacted by high energy costs as they have in the past, with the offsetting factor being high prices. “Fuel and fertilizer costs are indeed significantly higher than what they were at the same time a year ago,” said Glenn Lennox, […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Canadian oats area in the spring of 2008 could be much lower than what was seeded in 2007 as prices for the crop have failed to keep pace with those of alternatives, according to industry sources. “There is a possibility that oats area in Canada could be down as much as […] Read more

(Resource News International) — World fundamentals are generally supportive for durum and even winter wheat, but spring wheat acreage is expected to suffer in Canada during the upcoming 2008-09 crop year. “The extra winter wheat and durum plantings will come at the expense of spring wheat in the spring of 2008,” said market analyst Greg […] Read more

(Resource News International) — Canada’s canola export projections for the 2007-08 crop year are slowly being downsized, but strong domestic processor demand is expected to help limit the impact on Canada’s ending stocks picture. Strength in the Canadian dollar, along with high ocean freight rates were linked by industry sources to the downsizing of Canada’s […] Read more