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Brazilian grain trucker blockade continues, threatens harvest

By Gustavo Bonato February 20, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Truckers protesting high diesel prices in Brazil used road blocks to restrict the flow of soy, corn and other commodities in a key grain-growing region for a third day on Friday, threatening what is expected to be a record harvest. A group of transport companies and independent truckers are blocking […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Deere cuts profit forecast as farm equipment sales decline

By Reuters February 20, 2015

Reuters — Farm equipment maker Deere and Co. posted a 43 per cent fall in first-quarter profit and cut its full-year profit forecast as lower corn prices and weak farm income weighed on demand for agricultural machinery. The company, which gets nearly two-thirds of its revenue from farm and turf machinery, cut its 2015 net […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

CN set to lock out 4,800 mechanical, clerical staff Monday

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 20, 2015

Canadian National Railway (CN) plans to lock out about 4,800 unionized employees across Canada starting Monday night (Feb. 23) unless their union agrees to arbitration for a new contract. Montreal-based CN’s move follows Thursday’s announcement by Unifor — the union representing CN’s mechanical, intermodal and clerical workers — that it will hold a strike vote […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans close week lower

February 20, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures plunged 3.3 per cent on Friday, their biggest decline in nearly two months, on more signs of poor export prospects for U.S. supplies, traders said. Corn and soybean futures also fell, weighed down by a round of end-of-week profit-taking following solid gains on Thursday. But wheat notched the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Time running out for high durum prices

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 19, 2015

CNS Canada –– Good-quality durum has enjoyed large premiums over other wheat classes this past year, but opportunities for any unpriced durum still left to sell may be getting harder to find, as attention turns to large global new-crop projections. Durum prices today are topping out at about $9.75 per bushel in Saskatchewan, according to […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

U.S. EPA to propose biofuels standards this spring

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 19, 2015

Grapevine, Tex. | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to put out a proposal that will address Renewable Fuels Standards for 2014, 2015 and 2016 this spring, an agency official at an industry conference in Grapevine, Tex., said Thursday. The agency will address all three years at once and plans to look at […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans set five-week high on predicted drop in plantings

By Tom Polansek February 19, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped to a five-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Agriculture Department projected farmers will plant fewer acres than traders expected in response to falling prices. Corn futures also advanced, while wheat finished flat to lower. USDA, in data released at its annual Agricultural Outlook conference, projected 2015-16 […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Repair, inspection staff at CN prep for strike vote

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 19, 2015

Locomotive and rail car maintenance, repair and inspection staff at Canadian National Railway (CN) plan to take a strike vote early next week, their union said Thursday. Unifor, the largest union at CN with over 4,800 members, said Thursday it will hold the vote over a period of up to three weeks, and would set […] Read more

Double cropping of rice and lentils would increase income for smallholder farmers in India and Bangladesh. (Photo courtesy ICARDA)

Crops, Lentils, Pulses

Double-cropping project aims to cut Indian lentil imports

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 19, 2015

Researchers on a project in India and Bangladesh say they hope it will greatly reduce their lentil imports. Farmers in the project are growing lentils in fields left fallow after rice harvests, with the help of a research and training project by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). In a […] Read more

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

Crops, Markets, Weather

Mustard acres expected to soften slightly in 2015

By Dave Sims February 19, 2015

CNS Canada — Canadian mustard seeds could be vying for attention this spring from some of their more lucrative rivals, the chairman of the Saskatchewan Mustard Seed Development Commission predicts. “I would say mustard acres would be down a little bit from the previous year just based on the profit potential for other crops,” said […] 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

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

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

Crops

Brazilian grain trucker blockade continues, threatens harvest

Deere cuts profit forecast as farm equipment sales decline

CN set to lock out 4,800 mechanical, clerical staff Monday

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans close week lower

Time running out for high durum prices

U.S. EPA to propose biofuels standards this spring

U.S. grains: Soybeans set five-week high on predicted drop in plantings

Repair, inspection staff at CN prep for strike vote

Double-cropping project aims to cut Indian lentil imports

Mustard acres expected to soften slightly in 2015

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