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Bunge has posted a larger-than-expected quarterly profit and warns that 2025 earnings could sink to the lowest level in six years as trade tensions and biofuel policy uncertainty drag on the agricultural sector. Bunge’s 2024 profit fell short of expectations after weak oilseed processing margins slashed fourth-quarter earnings in its core agribusiness segment. Bunge shares […]

REGINA – The tariff threat, and market access to the USA were both hot topics for NDP leader Carla Beck at the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers’ Regina winter meeting. Beck was there to take the pulse, so to speak, of the pulse growers in attendance at Queensbury Convention Centre to gauge their thoughts and concerns on […]

Scholarships were handed out on Sunday at the Prairieland Youth Leadership Conference, also known as YouLead. 4-H members from across the province cultivated their leadership skills in a fun mix of social, interactive and competitive activities. The top five received post-secondary scholarships. First place and a $4,500 post-secondary scholarship was presented to Hanna Hougham with […]

Pulse Canada is taking a more active business-to-business role in continuing trade relationships with customers in China and India. The Canadian government has had a rocky relationship with both nations in recent years, with neither country rolling out the red carpet for Canadian government officials. Jeff English, Pulse Canada’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications, […]

The Manitoba government is investing $36.4 million over two years to the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG) for capital infrastructure projects at the Port of Churchill that will expand international trade and create good jobs for northern Manitobans, Premier Wab Kinew and Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor announced today. “Churchill present huge opportunities when it […]

Nutrien has donated $15 million to the University of Saskatchewan’s “Be what the world needs” campaign. A large portion of the gift will establish the Nutrien Centre for Sustainable and Digital Agriculture inside the current College of Agriculture and Bioresources building. It will focus on research training and innovative technologies that accelerate farming into the […]

Insecticides with the trade names Matador, Silencer and Labamba are again approved for most uses in the growing season ahead. The active ingredient is lambda-cyhalothrin. Back in 2023, the Pest Management Regulator Agency (PMRA) cancelled all feed uses of lambda on crops. While human consumption of crops treated with lambda was still a registered use, […]

Most of the feeder steer prices reported in Saskatchewan this past week were up week-over-week and so were the feeder heifer prices. The latest Cattle Market Update from Canfax, for the week ending January 31, shows only the 600-700 and 800-900 pound steer weight categories as the only ones to have a week-over-week price decrease […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 65% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 25, a modest improvement from the 64% order fulfillment performance seen in week 24, and now not having supplied 70% of shipper orders for three consecutive weeks.  That’s according to the Ag Transport Coalition. In supplying 74% of cars ordered […]

YORKTON – On Saturday United States president Donald Trump on Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs – 25 per cent — on imports from Mexico, Canada, and to a lesser rate on China. Trump declared an economic emergency in order to place duties of 10 per cent on all imports from China and 25 […]