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ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins

By Chris Prentice, Rod Nickel February 25, 2015

Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at its Velva, N.D. oilseeds processing […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil truck strike grinds into second week, port access cleared

By Marcelo Teixeira, Reese Ewing February 25, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers staged nearly 100 roadblocks across Brazil’s farm belt on Wednesday as protests stretched into their eighth day, though access to the country’s biggest port was cleared after police clashed with protesters who had briefly halted traffic there. The steadily widening blockades have sparked growing fuel and supply shortages and […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide on easing concerns about Brazil truck strike

By Christine Stebbins February 25, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans retreated on Wednesday from a six-week high earlier this week, on prospects for an imminent end to the Brazilian truck drivers’ strike which had threatened exports just as the country’s massive soybean crop was entering world markets. CBOT wheat also fell as U.S. wheat remains too […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Soybeans, Weather

Soybeans’ potential seen growing on Prairies

By Dave Sims, Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Soybean acres in Canada — particularly Western Canada — are expected to be on the rise, according to an analyst. “I’m basing that on new varieties as well as price,” Chris Beckman, oilseeds analyst for the grains and oilseeds division of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, told the annual Wild Oats […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Low stocks-to-use ratio to keep pea bids well supported

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 24, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Canadian pea exports have been running at a very solid pace during the 2014-15 crop year to date, but supplies are seen to be running out and the market will need to work to ration demand over the later portion of the marketing year. Canadian peas have been leaving the […] Read more

Brown mustard. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

Inelastic demand to keep mustard well supported

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 24, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada –– The inelastic demand for Canada’s mustard crop is expected to keep prices well supported, as the country is the major world supplier and end-users need to make sure the acres keep going in the ground. “There’s no substitute for mustard,” Walter Dyck of Olds Products told the annual Wild Oats […] Read more

Crops

Prairie crop checkoff tax credits pegged for 2014

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 24, 2015

Prairie crop growers who are preparing their returns for the 2014 tax year and didn’t ask for refunds on their crop checkoffs may be able to see some of those funds come back in tax credits. Some crop commodity groups’ checkoffs qualify for the federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR+ED) tax credit, which can […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise to six-week high on Brazil, weather woes

By Christine Stebbins February 24, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans rose to a six-week high on Tuesday on the potential for increased U.S. demand as world buyers worry about supply disruptions in Brazil because of a trucker strike and rains stalling harvest, traders said. Additional support stemmed from a tight supply of soybeans at U.S. Gulf […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets

Canada’s share of malt barley market shrinking

By Terryn Shiells February 24, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada –– Canada has historically been one of the world’s top malt barley exporters, but its share of the global market is shrinking, Cargill Malt’s Lorelle Selinger told the Wild Oats Grainworld conference. A poor-quality crop produced in Canada in 2014-15 is one reason importers have started sourcing their malt supplies from […] Read more

From left, CN chief operating officer Jim Vena, federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch and Unifor president Jerry Dias, after CN and Unifor reached a tentative labour agreement late Monday. (CNW Group/Employment and Social Development Canada)

Crops, Machinery

Last-minute tentative deal averts lockout at CN

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 24, 2015

Canadian National Railway (CN) has pulled its lockout notice after reaching a tentative labour deal with its unionized mechanical and clerical staff. The company, which last week set a lockout deadline of 11 p.m. ET Monday for employees represented by Unifor, announced the agreement late Monday night. “We are very pleased that the company and […] Read more

New Quebec ag minister named in shuffle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall on expectations of US agriculture secretary announcement

Agrichemicals firm Corteva explores splitting seed and pesticide units, WSJ reports

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