Crops

2024 Could be a Good Year to Grow Canary Seed

Apr 17, 2024 | 2:31pm

Canary seed is looking to bounce back in 2024-25, despite declines in production and exports during the current year. David Nobbs, chair of the Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan and pulse merchant for Purely Canada Foods, says exports are on pace for 110,000 to 120,000 tonnes in 2023-24, compared to 150,000 to 160,000 in […]

Closing Grain Prices Wednesday, April 17

Apr 17, 2024 | 2:22pm

Durum 387.37 Feed barley 232.58 Canola 581.22 Chickpeas 992.08 Flax […]

Opening Grain Prices Wednesday, April 17

Apr 17, 2024 | 9:33am

Durum 387.37 Feed barley 232.58 Canola 580.22 Chickpeas 992.08 Flax 629.54 Lentils 772.50 Oats 255.32 Yellow Peas 474.72 Feed Wheat 233.45 1 Red Spring Wheat 303.30 Below are today’s opening future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.

Saskatchewan positioning itself as a “stable supplier” of critical minerals after signing two agreements

Apr 16, 2024 | 2:48pm

The Saskatchewan government and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) signed two agreements with France and a company based in Vietnam to improve the province’s energy and mining sectors, as well as increase production at the Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) Rare Earth Processing Facility. A Letter of Intent was signed Monday between the provincial government and […]

Major Canadian Railways Continue to Struggle With Meeting Grain Delivery Demand: Ag Transport Coalition

Apr 16, 2024 | 2:26pm

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 71% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 36, a slight decline from the 74% order fulfillment performance seen in week 35. CN and CPKC each saw a modest deterioration in performance as compared to the prior week. In supplying 68% of cars ordered by shippers in week […]