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Ag equipment maker Buhler cutting production, staff

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 17, 2015

Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries is reducing its workforce and paring back production ahead of an expected drop in farm incomes. The company, whose brands include Versatile tractors and Farm King implements, announced its first-quarter financials Friday for the period ending Dec. 31, booking net profit of $1.5 million on fourth-best quarterly revenue of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

By Dave Sims February 17, 2015

CNS Canada — Wet weather may have cost western Canadian producers 20,000 acres of sunflowers last year, according to one industry watcher who’s hopeful 2015 will be a little kinder. “We were anticipating over 100,000 acres last year and as it turned out we came into that 80,000 range,” said Ben Friesen, purchasing manager for […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CWRS wheat bids rise with U.S. futures

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 17, 2015

CNS Canada — Cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat across the Prairies generally moved higher during the week ended Friday. Average CWRS prices gained about $7-$9 per tonne, with prices ranging from about $210 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan to $228 in Manitoba, according to bids from a cross-section of delivery points […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy hits one-month high on soymeal gains, NOPA data

By Michael Hirtzer February 17, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans climbed to a one-month peak on Tuesday, lifted by a three per cent spike in soymeal futures and data showing near-record domestic crushings of the beans in January, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed, with some contracts turning lower after earlier hitting three-week highs on a short-covering bounce. Corn […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

S. Africa’s proposed ban on foreign land ownership aimed at farms

By Reuters February 17, 2015

Johannesburg | Reuters — A South African government proposal to ban foreign nationals from owning land will apply to farms, not residential property, a government minister was quoted as saying Tuesday. In his State of the Nation address last week, President Jacob Zuma said foreigners would be barred from owning land and South African citizens […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather, Winter Wheat

Arctic blast hits U.S. Midwest, some wheat at risk of winterkill

By Christine Stebbins February 17, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– An arctic blast hitting the heart of the U.S. Midwest soft red winter wheat belt this week will put 10 to 15 per cent of the dormant crop at risk of winterkill damage, agricultural meteorologists said Tuesday. While most of the northern Midwest wheat crop is protected by snow from frigid […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP engineers, conductors halt strike

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 16, 2015

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its unionized conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen agreed Monday to binding arbitration in their contract talks, ending a strike the day after it began. The end of the strike, which began Sunday just after midnight, comes under the threat of federal back-to-work legislation, which was due to be tabled Monday […] Read more

Kellie Leitch speaking in Ottawa in March 2014. (Labour.gc.ca)

Crops, Machinery, Markets

Railway back-to-work legislation going to Commons

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 16, 2015

Back-to-work legislation to halt a day-old strike by engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is scheduled for introduction Monday in the House of Commons. Federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch is booked on the Commons’ order paper for Monday to introduce “An Act to provide for the continuation and resumption of rail service operations.” […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. labour secretary to help reach West Coast port deal

By Alex Dobuzinskis February 15, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez will travel to California to help broker an agreement between shipping companies and dockworkers in a dispute that has led to a partial shutdown of ports along the U.S. West Coast, the White House said on Saturday. The move by the Obama administration came after […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP’s engineers, conductors on strike

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 15, 2015

Engineers, conductors, trainmen and yardmen for Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) are on strike after 11th-hour talks ended Saturday night without a new agreement. “Picket lines are now being set up across Canada and the rail shutdown is happening,” Doug Finnson, president of the workers’ union, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), said in a release […] Read more

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Ag equipment maker Buhler cutting production, staff

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

CWRS wheat bids rise with U.S. futures

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CP engineers, conductors halt strike

Railway back-to-work legislation going to Commons

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