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Agrium profit beats Street, helped by higher grain prices

By Reuters February 23, 2015

Reuters — Fertilizer and farm retail dealer Agrium reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit helped by higher prices for most grains and oilseeds. The company also forecast 2015 profit to be $7 to $8.50 per share. Analysts on average expect a profit of $7.55 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Agrium’s U.S.-listed shares rose two […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie CWRS wheat bids drop with U.S. futures

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 23, 2015

CNS Canada — Cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat across the Prairies moved lower during the week ended Friday, taking most of their direction from a downturn in U.S. futures. Average CWRS prices lost about $9-$10 per tonne, with prices ranging from about $201 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan to $220 per […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Industry braces for impact as CN lockout deadline nears

By Allison Martell February 23, 2015

Toronto | Reuters –– A looming lockout at Canada’s biggest railway threatens to delay imports from Asia and may compound a U.S. West Coast port logjam unless last-ditch contract talks succeed Monday. Canadian National Railway (CN) and Unifor, the union representing its 4,800 mechanical, clerical and trucking workers in Canada, resumed talks on Monday, hours […] Read more

(Manitoba Co-operator photo by Allan Dawson)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canada seen sowing slightly less canola, more durum

By Rod Nickel February 23, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers are leaning toward planting slightly less canola and more durum wheat, a Reuters survey of 12 traders and analysts showed on Monday. Farmers still have plenty of time to change plans for seeding, which starts in most of the Prairies by May, but many have already bought some of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat slide to near three-week lows as dollar firms

By Christine Stebbins February 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat and corn futures fell to near three-week lows on Monday as a strong dollar loomed over export demand along with aggressive competition from overseas suppliers, traders said. Soybeans, which remain underpinned by a tug-of-war for nearby supplies between processors and exporters, ended mostly unchanged after bouncing from session lows. […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

‘Extreme’ volatility expected in wheat markets this spring

By Terryn Shiells February 23, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Canadian and U.S. wheat markets are likely going to experience some “extreme” volatility this spring, Lawrence Yakielashek of FarmLink Marketing Solutions told the Wild Oats Grainworld Conference. “The spring months are when the firecrackers are going to start to hit the match,” he added. He predicted there would be a […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Global durum crops in good shape, for now

By Terryn Shiells February 23, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Since North America and Australia both produced poor-quality durum crops in 2014-15, all eyes are on Mexico, the U.S. desert, Europe and North Africa to come up with some higher-quality product. And so far, most crops in those areas look fairly good, Alan Hegemeier, a merchandiser with CHS Inc., said […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Prairie wheat acres seen dropping six per cent in 2015

By Terryn Shiells February 23, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Canadian wheat acreage, excluding durum, is expected to drop six per cent, to 17.9 million acres, for the 2015-16 crop year, Agri-Trend Group CEO Robert Saik told the Wild Oats Grainworld conference in Winnipeg. Wheat acres are expected to fall as current returns are at the breakeven level, and the […] Read more

Aerial view of Lac-Megantic after the July 2013 derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. (TSB.gc.ca)

Crops, Reuters

Canada demands oil trains carry more insurance, levy imposed

By Randall Palmer February 21, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will increase the insurance railways must carry when they haul crude oil and impose a levy on shippers to help cover the cost of major accidents in the burgeoning oil-by-rail industry, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Friday. Raitt unveiled the measures in a bill which responds largely to the 2013 […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Weather

Manitoba corn acres expected to be ‘down or flat’

By Dave Sims February 21, 2015

CNS Canada — A mixture of extremely wet conditions in 2014 and a projected dry outlook for southwestern Manitoba are leading one corn expert to predict fewer corn acres in the province in 2015. “The southwest was wet, wet, wet and now they’re expecting to be dry, dry, dry. Neither of those conditions is great […] 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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New Quebec ag minister named in shuffle

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Agrium profit beats Street, helped by higher grain prices

Prairie CWRS wheat bids drop with U.S. futures

Industry braces for impact as CN lockout deadline nears

Canada seen sowing slightly less canola, more durum

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat slide to near three-week lows as dollar firms

‘Extreme’ volatility expected in wheat markets this spring

Global durum crops in good shape, for now

Prairie wheat acres seen dropping six per cent in 2015

Canada demands oil trains carry more insurance, levy imposed

Manitoba corn acres expected to be ‘down or flat’

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