Crops , Latest & Featured - Canadian Cattlemen

Mosaic fast-tracking Esterhazy potash mine expansion

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 10, 2015

U.S. fertilizer firm Mosaic Co. has put expansion work at its southeastern Saskatchewan potash mining site on an “accelerated” timeline. Mosaic, which said in 2008 it would invest $1.7 billion to add 1.8 million tonnes of capacity at its Esterhazy, Sask. site by 2020, now plans to have its new “K3” satellite mine delivering potash […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Prince Rupert to boost container handling capacity

By Julie Gordon March 10, 2015

Vancouver | Reuters — Maher Terminals Holding Corp. said Tuesday it would boost container-handling capacity by more than half at the Port of Prince Rupert, under an expansion of its container terminal at the northern British Columbia port. The Fairview Container terminal will be expanded to more than 1.3 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Mild Prairie temperatures not expected to last

By Dave Sims March 10, 2015

CNS Canada — Despite recent mild temperatures that are forecast to hang around the Canadian Prairies for the next week, a weather expert says a colder bias will return during the latter stages of the month. “It will take a while for it to come back, but it will come back,” said Drew Lerner of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag after monthly USDA report

By Julie Ingwersen March 10, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised analysts by leaving its forecast of domestic soy inventories unchanged in a monthly report. A strong dollar hung over the commodities sector, pressuring grains as well as crude oil and copper. But wheat closed higher, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

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

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

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

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Crops

Mosaic fast-tracking Esterhazy potash mine expansion

Prince Rupert to boost container handling capacity

Mild Prairie temperatures not expected to last

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag after monthly USDA report

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

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Blogs

Cows ain’t coal

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Latest Market News