The Port of Churchill and the rail line running to it has moved to 100 per cent local community and Indigenous ownership. AGT Food and Ingredients and Fairfax Financial have "transitioned" their 50 per cent stake in the Arctic Gateway Group to OneNorth, a consortium of community and Indigenous partners, according to a news release... Read More
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If there was one piece of information you would have wanted in January of 2020, it might have been about COVID-19 transmission. But as of January 2021, the nugget of info that may mean the most for markets this year is if Chinese buying keeps pace or exceeds last year. There's more at play in... Read More
There's plenty of optimism for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to assist in a global economic recovery, but what happens after mass vaccination? What's at play to help the global economy recover? Jan Lambregts, head of RaboResearch, global economics and markets at Rabobank, recently joined Shaun Haney to talk all things global finance. Lambregts recently presented... Read More
It's time for another Beef Market Update, and since StatsCan recently released the January 1 numbers, we're going to focus on inventory today. Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange says that there wasn't really anything of surprise in the numbers, as the pattern of a contracting beef cow herd in Canada continues. "We did... Read More
After closing for 14 days due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees, Olymel is resuming operations at its pork processing plant in Red Deer, Alberta starting on Thursday, March 4. With support from Alberta Health Services, the company says slaughter operations will resume on Thursday, with cutting room operations beginning on Friday. The company says... Read More
If you're looking at the price of fertilizer and growing conditions and wondering if it's the year to either pull rates back or put the hammer down, this episode of The Agronomists is for you. Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by John Heard, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, and Steph Berlett,... Read More
It's not far off to say that many producers are trying to decipher what is going on in the commodity markets right now. If you've been following some of the media reports, you've most likely seen headlines that involve the words "commodity super-cycle." We see it, but do we know exactly what a commodity super-cycle... Read More
A current issue on a lot of people's minds are the commodity markets, and unbelievable old crop and futures canola prices are sure a surprise for many. But what exactly is a commodity super-cycle, what's behind it, and how long will it last? For this RealAg LIVE! session, Shaun Haney chats with Brett Stuart of... Read More
The Western Canadian grain trade, with the support of the Prairie provinces, is launching a campaign to push for changes to "outdated and problematic" federal rules around the oversight of Canada's ports, mainly driven by cost increases at the Port of Vancouver over the last few years. The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) says its... Read More
It's only 11 days until the meteorological start of spring, which is pretty cool, but so are the temperatures in Ontario, in Western Canada, and all the way down to the southern U.S. On this Wheat Pete's Word, our host Peter Johnson fields all sorts of questions about the cold, plus manganese, scaring away birds,... Read More