Crops

Western Canadian farmers are hoping for a normal year after the extreme ups and downs of the last two. Farmers gearing up for spring seeding say they hope they won’t have to deal with record-breaking weather events like 2021’s drought. Many Prairie farmers that year had to write off much of their crop as fields […]

CN and CP Rail supplied a combined 87% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 36, a decline from the previous week’s 96%. The drop reflects a decline in performance for each of CN and CP. In supplying 88% of hopper cars ordered on time in week 36, CN’s performance declined from the 96% performance seen in week 35 […]

Russia says there will be no extension of the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal beyond May 18th, unless the West removes a series of obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilizer. The Ukraine grain Black Sea export deal was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey last July, to help alleviate a global food crisis worsened by […]

According to analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, there is presently little upside to new-crop November canola on ICE Futures. Anderson points to losses in Malaysian palm oil and weakness in China’s soymeal market as weighing on ICE canola values, with more pressure coming out of South America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on […]

Pulse seeding in Saskatchewan is expected to start on time this spring if the weather co-operates. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers executive director Carl Potts anticipates a 10 per cent decline in seeded area for peas, as well as a five per cent reduction for lentils, which he attributes to competition with other crops and root disease in some areas. […]

There’s a new chair at the Western Grains Research Foundation. Radisson, Saskatchewan farmer Laura Reiter was elected to the post at the first meeting of the new board following the organization’s 2023 annual general meeting. Reiter is a producer and trained agrologist who has spent time working in research and in the agriculture retail sector. She’s also […]

The Government of Saskatchewan welcomes the announcement that Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) will expand its canola crushing facility at Yorkton. “This major investment by LDC is good news for Saskatchewan canola growers and good news for workers and the economy in Yorkton and right across the province,” Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said. […]

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), a leading global merchant and processor of agricultural goods, announced today the expansion of its canola processing complex in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, reinforcing its capacity to supply food, feed and energy customers. “This investment supports the Group’s strategic growth plans by reinforcing core merchandizing activities, in this case with additional capacity […]

We won’t know until the end of April at the earliest, what will become of Winnipeg pea- and canola-based protein processor Merit Functional Foods. Merit, whose major shareholders include Vancouver plant-based protein firm Burcon NutraScience, U.S. agrifood firm Bunge and former executives of Hemp Oil Canada, was placed into receivership on March 1st. According to the […]

A CN train loaded with grain derailed near Edmonton last week. The derailment occurred early Wednesday morning, just east of Sherwood Park. In all, seventeen cars derailed, and all were carrying grain. If all 17 derailed cars spilled all their grain, that’s about 64,328 bushels of wheat or 77,197 bushels of canola. Trains starting to move through […]