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Starbucks eyes coconuts as non-dairy, non-soy demand soars

By Lisa Baertlein February 6, 2015

Reuters — Starbucks Corp. said on Wednesday its 12,123 U.S. shops would begin offering coconut milk on Feb. 17, as it seeks to keep pace with soaring demand for non-dairy and non-soy milk alternatives. Starbucks began offering soy milk in 1997. Consumer tastes have since evolved, driving strong demand for other non-dairy alternatives made from […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

World food prices fall in January, rally seen unlikely

By Isla Binnie February 5, 2015

Rome | Reuters — World food prices are unlikely to rise much from their four-year slump as long as high production, low oil prices and limited import demand continue, a senior economist for the United Nations’ food agency said Thursday. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) global food price index fell in January, continuing […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Nearby lows likely in for wheat futures

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 5, 2015

CNS Canada — All three U.S. wheat futures markets have seen a sizeable corrective bounce after hitting their lowest levels in months to start the week — and could be due for some more strength heading into the spring, a U.S. analyst says. “I’d like to think that the lows are in for the short […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat up on prospects for Egyptian sales, softer dollar

By Julie Ingwersen February 5, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures climbed nearly three per cent on Thursday, buoyed by a softer dollar and hopes for U.S. sales of the grain to top buyer Egypt, traders said. Soybeans rose, led by strength in soyoil and Malaysian palm oil, while corn ended firm after a choppy session. […] Read more

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Strength in corn, beans to be short-lived

By Terryn Shiells February 4, 2015

CNS Canada — Corn and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade ended mostly higher during the week ended Wednesday; soybean futures saw slight gains, while advances in corn were more exaggerated. A sharp rally Tuesday lifted both markets to end higher for the week, with speculative short covering amid temporary U.S. dollar weakness […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola ‘reasonably balanced’

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 4, 2015

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, but remain rangebound overall with offsetting market factors expected to keep values steady in the short term. “The market seems, at least temporarily, reasonably balanced,” said Jon Driedger of FarmLink Marketing Solutions. “It’s that window of the year where there’s […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Scoular reported hit by $17M fraud

By Reuters February 4, 2015

Reuters — Scoular Co., a U.S. grain trading and handling firm, was swindled out of more than US$17 million through an international email scheme, a company official confirmed on Wednesday. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the fraud, which took place in June, a company spokesperson said in a telephone interview. The […] Read more

CS2000, shown here in field trials in August 2014, is billed as having “intermediate” resistance to the recently-discovered clubroot pathotype 5x. (BehindTheSeeds.ca)

Canola, Crops

Against clubroot, ‘I’-rated canola sits between ‘R’ and ‘S’

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 4, 2015

A new canola variety billed with “intermediate” reaction against a new pathotype of clubroot is being placed in the zone between “resistant” and “susceptible.” Canterra Seeds, the Winnipeg firm marketing the new CS2000 hybrid variety, clarified its claim for the seed in a statement on a company blog Wednesday, granting many growers may be seeing the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans slip as dollar firms, crude oil falls

By Christine Stebbins February 4, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell 1.5 per cent on Wednesday, retreating from a three-week high notched Tuesday as the dollar rose, traders said. Outlooks for the driest areas of Brazil’s crop region calling for rain this week and the falling crude oil market also hurt soy prices. “Today, cooler heads prevailed and […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canada’s large canola stocks top expectations

By Terryn Shiells February 4, 2015

CNS Canada — Releasing its Canadian year-end stocks estimates, Statistics Canada painted a picture Tuesday that’s mostly bearish for canola. StatsCan’s figure for canola stocks as of Dec. 31, at 11.103 million tonnes, was at the high end of expectations, surpassing what some market watchers anticipated. “I’m not sure if that means that StatsCan’s production number […] 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

Starbucks eyes coconuts as non-dairy, non-soy demand soars

World food prices fall in January, rally seen unlikely

Nearby lows likely in for wheat futures

U.S. grains: Wheat up on prospects for Egyptian sales, softer dollar

CBOT weekly outlook: Strength in corn, beans to be short-lived

ICE weekly outlook: Canola ‘reasonably balanced’

Scoular reported hit by $17M fraud

Against clubroot, ‘I’-rated canola sits between ‘R’ and ‘S’

U.S. grains: Soybeans slip as dollar firms, crude oil falls

Canada’s large canola stocks top expectations

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