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IGC sees smaller global wheat, corn crops in 2015-16

By Reuters February 26, 2015

London | Reuters –– Global corn production is expected to fall by five per cent in 2015-16 from this season’s record level and the world wheat crop to decline by a more modest two per cent, the International Grains Council (IGC) forecast on Thursday. The intergovernmental body, in a monthly report, forecast global corn production […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Trade panel rejects Que. appeal on edible oil products

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 25, 2015

Quebec has lost its last path of appeal against an interprovincial trade panel’s decision on restrictions for sales of vegetable oil-based dairy products in the province. An appellate panel, convened under the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), on Wednesday released a Jan. 26 report which upholds an AIT panel’s ruling last spring, favouring Saskatchewan’s challenge against Quebec’s […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT soy seen weakening as soon as Brazil’s logistics improve

By Terryn Shiells February 25, 2015

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as continued good export demand for U.S. soybeans was bullish. Brazil’s slower than normal harvest pace and its logistics problems related to a trucker strike both led to strong export demand for the U.S. As soon as those […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola runs into resistance

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2015

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts hit their highest levels in seven months during the week ended Wednesday, but ran into resistance to the upside and posted small losses in most months on a week-by-week basis. The nearby March contract was down sharply on the week, as traders exited the front month and […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

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

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IGC sees smaller global wheat, corn crops in 2015-16

Trade panel rejects Que. appeal on edible oil products

CBOT soy seen weakening as soon as Brazil’s logistics improve

ICE weekly outlook: Canola runs into resistance

ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins

Brazil truck strike grinds into second week, port access cleared

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

Soybeans’ potential seen growing on Prairies

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

Inelastic demand to keep mustard well supported

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