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(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canada, China meet to solve canola spat as deadline looms

By Rod Nickel August 10, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian officials are in Beijing this week to try to convince China to back off a plan to toughen its standard for Canada’s canola shipments, which has stalled $2 billion in trade, government and industry officials said on Wednesday. China’s quarantine authority AQSIQ told Ottawa in February that it would impose a […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

China money, market spur Canadian blueberry deluge

By Julie Gordon August 5, 2016

Richmond, B.C. | Reuters — An aging mansion sits vacant on an estate outside Vancouver, the garage overtaken by a blueberry sorter and a walk-in cooler packed with the fruit. The owner, an investor from mainland China, leases the estate to Fred Liu at such a bargain the farmer grows blueberries in its fields even […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Proposed Chinese canola dockage rules worry Canadian industry

By Dave Sims July 26, 2016

Commodity News Service Canada – It’s a nervous time for Canada’s canola industry as it lobbies the Chinese government over a plan to impose new dockage rules on imports of Canadian canola on Sept. 1. That’s when China’s quarantine agency, AQSIQ, says the dockage allowances for Canadian canola will be pegged at one per cent, down […] Read more

On the U.S. East Coast, home to some of the country’s biggest pork production, ships carrying UK feed wheat have been unloading volumes not seen in years.

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. pork packing plant boom may boost hog prices

By Theopolis Waters July 18, 2016

Chicago / Reuters – The U.S. pork industry could be heading for higher hog prices as processing plants come on line at an unprecedented rate with packers investing millions of dollars to satisfy the appetite of protein-hungry China, industry analysts said. Pork packers including Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods, who slaughter hogs and turn them into […] Read more

A wheat crop in standing water. (Colton Yoder photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather

Wet wheat weather watched worldwide

By Jade Markus July 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Generous rainfall has benefited but also boosted the risk of disease on wheat crops in much of Canada and the U.S., and has also cut into grain quality in parts of Europe. However, according to Drew Lerner of U.S. forecast agency World Weather Inc., conditions during the harvest season will be the […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Room for additional downside in canola

By Jade Markus June 23, 2016

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower on the week, and the market’s declines are likely not finished yet, one analyst says. Canola lost $42.90 in the July contract and $35.60 in the November contract in the week ended Wednesday, as a rout of fund selling pressured the market. “I think we’ve […] Read more

Cleavers, in seedling form. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Markets

Cleavers not threatening exports, Canola Council says

By Dave Sims May 31, 2016

CNS Canada — Suggestions that canola shipments to China could be in jeopardy because of concerns over herbicide-resistant weeds are being refuted by the Canola Council of Canada. Great Northern Growers Inc., an agriculture service business in Saskatoon that sells herbicides and other products, said it has heard China doesn’t want pesticide-resistant weeds coming into […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Flax industry fighting to regain lost acres

By Jade Markus May 13, 2016

CNS Canada — After losing ground to pulses this year, a flax industry group is working on ways to be competitive going forward. “It’s the year of the pulses, and certainly growers are taking advantage of good prices for pulses,” said Don Kerr, president at the Flax Council of Canada, referring to the United Nations […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Beijing to release frozen pork to temper price rise

By Reuters May 5, 2016

Beijing | Reuters –– Beijing will release 3.05 million kilograms of frozen pork from its reserves over the next two months to combat rising pork prices, the city government said on Wednesday. Starting from Thursday and lasting until July 4, the Beijing municipal government will sell 50,000 kg of pork each day to 121 supermarket chains […] Read more

Australian countryside near Bendigo, northwest of Melbourne. (CIA.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

Australia to defer decision on China land deal

By Colin Packham April 21, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — The Australian government is deferring until after an upcoming federal election a politically sensitive decision on whether to allow the sale of one of the country’s biggest cattle empires, S. Kidman and Co., to a Chinese-led consortium. Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison rejected a previous foreign-led offer for the ranching company — […] Read more

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Tag Archives China

Canada, China meet to solve canola spat as deadline looms

China money, market spur Canadian blueberry deluge

Proposed Chinese canola dockage rules worry Canadian industry

U.S. pork packing plant boom may boost hog prices

Wet wheat weather watched worldwide

ICE weekly outlook: Room for additional downside in canola

Cleavers not threatening exports, Canola Council says

Flax industry fighting to regain lost acres

Beijing to release frozen pork to temper price rise

Australia to defer decision on China land deal

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