As farmers pencil out close-to-final cropping choices for 2020, Statistics Canada has released the ending stocks of principal field crop figures as of December 31, 2019. StatsCan notes in the summary of the report that farmers were asked only for what was currently in storage, and not to include what was yet unharvested in the... Read More
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The Ag Exchange Group has acquired FarmLink Marketing Solutions' brokerage department. FarmLink, which continues to provide grain market analysis and advisory service to farmers, has partnered with Ag Exchange Group on its CXN360 platform for price discovery, which enables the two to collaborate with clients based on grain prices and strategic objectives. "New technology has... Read More
Due to the trade war between the U.S. and China, the White House used the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) to compensate farmers from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). The compensation was justified based on farmers willing to be "true patriots" for the greater good of America's decision to call out China on its trading practices.... Read More
An announced joint research project led by the University of Calgary has unleashed anger from many farmers in Western Canada. On Sunday, a tweet posted by the Canola Council of Canada referred to a joint research project entitled "Surveillance networks for beneficial insects II: Quantifying the canola yield effect of wetlands, shelterbelts and other insect... Read More
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) says grain farmers in the province will send eight percent of their total net income to the federal government in the form of a carbon tax this year. “Federal Minister of Agriculture Marie-Claude Bibeau has asked the agriculture industry for evidence of what the carbon tax is costing... Read More
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit, along with federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, have announced $8.1 million towards 28 livestock and forage-related research projects. These projects fall under the province's Agriculture Development Fund (ADF). From the money, $4.9 million will go towards 27 livestock and forage-related projects. Additionally, the projects will also receive more... Read More
G-Mac’s AgTeam has entered into an agreement to merge Cavalier Agrow Ltd. (“Cavalier”) into G-Mac’s AgTeam, bringing together two long- standing crop input retailers in Saskatchewan’s agriculture sector. Once combined, the two businesses will have 14 locations and 130 employees in communities across Saskatchewan from as far north as Meadow Lake and as far south... Read More
Plans for a farmer-owned grain and commodity handling facility in southeast Saskatchewan have officially been cancelled. At a meeting in Weyburn on Tuesday, shareholders in Comtrax Logistics Solutions voted unanimously to wind down operations, citing "challenging trade conditions and economic uncertainty." The farmer-led group, formally launched in 2015, was planning to build a 260-plus car... Read More
The boards of directors for Huron Bay Co-operative Inc. and North Wellington Co-operative Services have put a recommendation forward to its farmer-owners to "blend" the co-ops through amalgamation. The two agriculture-based Ontario co-ops are working on a strategy on how best to merge business operations, governance, finances, assets, departments, and markets to "explore further opportunities... Read More
The Canadian government has introduced legislation to implement the new trade deal between Canada, the United States, and Mexico — the last of the three countries to do so. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled Bill C-4, formally known as An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the... Read More