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USDA cuts world, U.S. corn stocks view as exports heat up

By Mark Weinraub March 10, 2015

Washington | Reuters — U.S. and world corn supplies are projected to be smaller than expected by the end of the marketing year due to rising export demand, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday. The government also left its outlook for domestic soybean supplies unchanged and lowered U.S. wheat stocks by just one million […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP’s shopcraft staff ratify new labour deal

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 9, 2015

Repair, maintenance and locomotive and rail car inspection staff at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted to ratify the last-minute deal that kept them off the picket line. The 1,625 unionized workers, represented by Unifor’s CP shopcraft bargaining unit, voted 79 per cent in favour of their four-year deal at membership meetings over the past […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola crush margins still solid near $100

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 9, 2015

CNS Canada — Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform have traded within a wide range over the past month, but crush margins continue to hover around the $100 mark. Crush margins provide an indication of the profitability of the product values relative to the seed cost when processing canola, with exchange rates also […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CWRS wheat bids edge higher, other classes soften

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 9, 2015

CNS Canada –– Wheat cash bids across Western Canada saw some minor adjustments during the week ended Friday, with Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) bids generally showing some improvement while other classes moved lower. Average CWRS wheat prices were steady to as much as $3 per tonne higher during the week, with bids ranging from […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

CN building bypass around derailed oil cars

March 9, 2015

Reuters/Staff –– Canadian National Railway’s westbound and eastbound trains are taking wide detours around a derailed train on its main line in northern Ontario while the company builds a bypass for traffic near the crash site. The CN train carrying crude oil that derailed early Saturday near Gogama, Ont., about 100 km south of Timmins, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat up 1.6 per cent in bounce from contract lows

By Julie Ingwersen March 9, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures rose 1.6 per cent on Monday, bouncing off the previous session’s contract lows on bargain-hunting and short-covering ahead of a monthly U.S. government crop report. Soybeans and corn also climbed in largely technical buying ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s supply/demand report due on Tuesday. At the […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Monsanto rolls out fababean inoculant

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 6, 2015

Fababean growers in Canada in the market for a granular inoculant now have their first-ever option. Monsanto BioAg, the joint microbial marketing arm for Novozymes and Monsanto, announced Friday it will now launch TagTeam fababean granular inoculant, which picked up Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval last fall. The product’s CFIA registration covers its dual-action use […] Read more

Crops, Forages, Weather

Ont. expands rain gauge options for forage insurance

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 6, 2015

Ontario farmers buying production insurance for forage crops this year can use data from up to three rainfall reporting stations in their coverage. Agricorp, which manages Ontario’s provincial farm programs and production insurance, said Thursday its move will allow forage growers enrolled in the forage rainfall plan to choose stations closer to the spots where […] Read more

Crops, Weather

St. Lawrence Seaway opening delayed

By MarketsFarm Team March 6, 2015

CNS Canada — The reopening of the St. Lawrence Seaway will be delayed by a week, with the navigation season now set to begin April 2, according to a notice from the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. Citing “careful review and consideration of factors and conditions affecting safe navigation and effective system transit,” seaway officials […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

By Reuters March 6, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become “worrying” to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014-15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday. The northern part of the Pampas grains belt has […] Read more

New Quebec ag minister named in shuffle

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USDA cuts world, U.S. corn stocks view as exports heat up

CP’s shopcraft staff ratify new labour deal

Canola crush margins still solid near $100

CWRS wheat bids edge higher, other classes soften

CN building bypass around derailed oil cars

U.S. grains: Wheat up 1.6 per cent in bounce from contract lows

Monsanto rolls out fababean inoculant

Ont. expands rain gauge options for forage insurance

St. Lawrence Seaway opening delayed

Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

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