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CBOT soybeans poised to drop below US$10

By Terryn Shiells January 14, 2015

CNS Canada — The Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures market has dropped sharply during the week ended Wednesday, and is poised to fall even further. “For March soybeans, I think it could potentially trade back to the US$9.45-$9.50 per bushel area,” said Terry Reilly of Futures International in Chicago (all figures US$). A bearish […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly: Canola strength may be limited

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 14, 2015

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were mixed during the week ended Wednesday, with the most active front months posting gains and losses in the more deferred positions. While there is still more room to the upside, weakness in CBOT soybeans could spill over to pull the Canadian futures down. The open interest […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Markets

Federal funding pledged for crop market development work

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 14, 2015

Canadian crop commodity groups getting federal AgriMarketing funding plan to put the money to work over five years — not just in salesmanship, but in developing their crops’ story for potential customers. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made two five-year funding announcements during the CropSphere 2015 conference Tuesday and Wednesday in Saskatoon: over $3.3 million […] Read more

The owners of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, shown here, are setting up a sister event for the western Canadian farm audience. (OutdoorFarmShow.com)

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Outdoor Farm Show owner sets sights on Saskatchewan

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 14, 2015

The owners of the biggest outdoor farm show in Canada have announced plans to put the business model to work northwest of Saskatoon. Farm publishing house Glacier FarmMedia, owners of the Woodstock, Ont.-based Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and this website, on Wednesday announced its chosen site and date for the inaugural edition of what it’s dubbed Ag in […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn falls to five-week low on big ethanol supply, technicals

By Michael Hirtzer January 14, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn fell one per cent on Wednesday, extending declines from the past two sessions to the largest in 1-1/2 years on pressure from chart-based selling and ballooning supplies of grain-based ethanol. Wheat had its sixth straight down day, pulled lower by plentiful global supplies of wheat and corn. Soybeans reversed […] Read more

Apples, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Grapes

New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 13, 2015

The first member of the benzoylacetonitrile group of crop insecticides (Group 25) to come to market in North America will be a mite control for fruit crops. BASF Canada announced Tuesday it has picked up registration for Nealta, a 200-gram-per-litre suspension concentrate of cyflumetofen, billed as a control for all life stages of tetranychid mites […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

By Reuters January 13, 2015

Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff said last year that the highway, known as BR-163, would be ready by mid-2015 as the government tries to relieve crowded […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Russia seen adding new informal grain export curbs in 2015

By Reuters January 13, 2015

Moscow | Reuters — Russia has strengthened informal curbs on grain exports since the start of the year, further complicating trading before the introduction of an export tax, a Russian grain exporters’ lobby said Tuesday in a letter to officials. Russia, expected to be the world’s fourth-largest exporter this year, hopes export curbs will cool […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. shippers say West Coast ports near gridlock on stalled contract talks

By Reuters January 13, 2015

San Francisco | Reuters — Cargo traffic at several of the biggest U.S. West Coast ports has slowed to near gridlock, negotiators for shipping lines and terminal operators for 29 ports said on Monday as contract talks with the dockworkers’ union remain strained. Union officials however have denied staging slowdowns, saying some of decisions by […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola cash market lagging strength in ICE futures

By Terryn Shiells January 13, 2015

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures have strengthened recently, but the western Canadian cash market for canola hasn’t followed along. Farmers “keep telling me that the futures go up, but the basis isn’t keeping pace,” said Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion Securities. Some locations, he added, have widened out basis levels so much […] Read more

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CBOT soybeans poised to drop below US$10

ICE weekly: Canola strength may be limited

Federal funding pledged for crop market development work

Outdoor Farm Show owner sets sights on Saskatchewan

U.S. grains: Corn falls to five-week low on big ethanol supply, technicals

New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

Russia seen adding new informal grain export curbs in 2015

U.S. shippers say West Coast ports near gridlock on stalled contract talks

Canola cash market lagging strength in ICE futures

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