Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused 19 shipments of Canadian canola meal from Cargill in October after finding they contained the harmful bacteria salmonella. The shipments all came from Cargill’s Clavet, Sask. canolacrushing plant, according to reports posted on the FDA’s website. The plant was already under shipping restrictions from the FDA […] Read more
U.S. Stops 19 Canada Canola Meal Loads From Cargill
Beef Packers Looking For Government Aid
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian beef packers are asking the federal government for an annual payment of $26 million to cover the cost of disposing of risky cattle parts under stringent health rules aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease. Packers want $31.70 for each animal over the age of 30 months to cover the cost of […] Read more
Salmonella Concerns Start To Affect Prairie Crush Volumes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s oilseed processors are crushing less canola, the first tangible sign that the rapidly expanding industry has run into a rut because of a dispute over salmonella with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Crushing has decreased even as processors are boosting capacity. If the trend continues, more seed could shift to export and overhang […] Read more
Canada Canola Reaches Above-Average Quality
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s canola crop has surpassed the quality of last year’s bumper crop, despite trying early growing-season weather that delayed maturity and created uneven growth. Tests by the Canadian Grain Commission show top-grade seed samples have an average of 44.8 per cent oil content – a measurement of the oilseed’s value to crushers who extract the […] Read more
Prairie Crop Average Wheat Crop Despite Late Harvest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian farmers were struggling to finish their latest harvest in several years last week, with 10 per cent of the spring wheat crop lying in fields too wet to combine, a Canadian Wheat Board official said last Tuesday. The wet, cold October has been a cruel ending to an unpredictable growing season, especially for […] Read more
GMO Flax Discovery Paralyzes Shipments
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Europe an Union has found genetically modified flaxseed in 11 Canadian flax shipments in less than one month, dimming prospects for farmers selling this year’s crop. The EU’s rapid-alert database for food and feed on Oct. 2. added two alerts from France reporting Canadian flaxseed shipments contaminated with GMO flax, bringing the total to […] Read more
Prairie Wheat Crop Relatively Fusarium Free
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s wheat crop has only low levels of the toxin that has caused Brazil to impose strict testing on United States wheat shipments, the Canadian Wheat Board said Sept. 18. Brazil sanitary officials said earlier they will test incoming U.S. wheat shipments for traces of vomitoxin, a toxin that can sicken humans and livestock. Vomitoxin […] Read more
Australians Now Own 21 Per Cent Of Viterra
Reading Time: < 1 minute “I don’t believe this management team is going to stand pat.” Viterra last Monday said it will pay shareholders of ABB Grain A$751.7 million (C$700 million) in cash, plus shares in Viterra, to complete its takeover of the Australian company. ABB shareholders had until Sept. 18 to choose among options weighted toward Viterra shares or […] Read more
U.S. Food Safety Worries Hit Canola Meal
Reading Time: 3 minutes “This is not a political issue and it’s not a trade issue. It’s a safety issue and the fact this is cattle feed doesn’t change that equation.” Salmonella-tainted Canadian canola meal has run into a headwind of American food-safety concerns, a trend that threatens to pressure canola futures during a rapid expansion period for the […] Read more
Canola Meal With Salmonella Traced To Bunge
Reading Time: 2 minutes “It’s looking more like a broader obstacle for everybody that’s involved in shipping commodities into the U. S.” – Bob Broeska Two rail car shipments of canola meal from Bunge’s Canadian crushing plants tested positive for salmonella after inspection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at the border in May, Bunge Ltd said on […] Read more
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