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ICE weekly outlook: Canola receives boost from soybeans

By MarketsFarm Team June 30, 2015

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market pulled higher during the week ended Tuesday, following heavy gains in the U.S. soy complex which advanced to its highest point in five months Tuesday. Traders were keenly observing Tuesday’s 2015-16 Statistics Canada acreage report which called for 19.84 million acres of canola in Western Canada. […] Read more

An aerial view of Sirius’ temporary drilling site at North Yorkshire. (SiriusMinerals.com)

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Potash miner Sirius wins approval for mine in British national park

By Reuters June 30, 2015

London | Reuters — Potash mine developer Sirius Minerals on Tuesday won the go-ahead to build a large mine in a scenic national park in Yorkshire, northern England, a company spokesman said, clearing a major hurdle in the construction of the US$3 billion project. The North York Moors National Park’s planning committee members, who were […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Corn prices drop CME feeder cattle limit down

By Theopolis Waters June 30, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Thinly traded Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures closed down their 4.5-cent/lb. maximum daily limit on Tuesday, responding to steep corn market gains, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures jumped nearly eight per cent after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bullish grain report. Pricey corn could increase input costs […] Read more

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U.S. corn, soy stocks grow less than expected

By Mark Weinraub June 30, 2015

Washington | Reuters — U.S. soybeans and corn stocks ballooned from a year ago but still missed market forecasts as strong demand ate into supplies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Wheat supplies were bigger than expected. U.S. wheat has struggled on the export market and weak prices for corn have cut demand for […] Read more

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Canada’s canola crop woes cut crusher profits to two-year low

By Rod Nickel June 30, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — Problems with Canada’s canola crop are driving up the oilseed’s price, cutting processors’ margins to their lowest levels in two years and threatening to boost the price of a key ingredient of salad dressings and potato chips. Frost and dry conditions on the Canadian Prairies have damaged the crop, which processors, […] Read more

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Yields to take precedence over acres in Canada

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 30, 2015

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers seeded a bit more canola and a bit less wheat than originally expected, according to updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada, released Tuesday. However, worsening drought conditions in the western Prairies over the past month and the need for reseeding due to frost damage earlier in June mean actual yields […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans, Weather

SW Ont. county gets soybean planting extension

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 29, 2015

Soybean growers in southwestern Ontario’s Essex County have a seven-day extension on the province’s crop insurance deadline to get their crop planted. Agricorp, the province’s crop insurance and farm funding agency, said Monday it would give Essex County farmers until July 7, 2015 to plant their soybeans for this crop year, and until July 10 […] Read more

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Prairie wheat bids up sharply with weather worries

By Terryn Shiells June 29, 2015

CNS Canada — Cash bids for Prairie wheat were up sharply during the week ended Friday, as weather worries in North America resulted in improved basis levels and pushed U.S. futures sharply higher. Parts of Western Canada are too dry, harming production, while excess moisture in the U.S. is increasing disease pressure and slowing the […] Read more

Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 29, 2015

Ontario’s corn and soybean grower group is taking the province’s planned regulations on the use and sale of pesticide-treated seed to court. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) said Monday it filed a request late last week with the provincial Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, seeking a legal “interpretation” of the province’s rules on neonicotinoid-treated […] Read more

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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U.S. grains: Wheat firms as rain slows harvest

By Mark Weinraub June 29, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 2.5 per cent on Monday, closing in positive territory for the sixth time in seven sessions on support from wet weather that has been delaying harvest in key U.S. growing areas, traders said. The concerns about the slow harvest, which was most pronounced in […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola receives boost from soybeans

Potash miner Sirius wins approval for mine in British national park

U.S. livestock: Corn prices drop CME feeder cattle limit down

U.S. corn, soy stocks grow less than expected

Canada’s canola crop woes cut crusher profits to two-year low

Yields to take precedence over acres in Canada

SW Ont. county gets soybean planting extension

Prairie wheat bids up sharply with weather worries

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

U.S. grains: Wheat firms as rain slows harvest

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