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Pulse weekly outlook: Increased demand seen, but problems loom

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News March 17, 2020

MarketsFarm — Unlike other commodities, pulses aren’t yet feeling ill effects from an economic downturn due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. With consumers panic-buying, there has been increased demand for pulses, as many are non-perishable, Mosnaim said. “These products will be there for ages,” he said, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentine farmers strike to protest export tax hike

By Maximilian Heath, GFM Network News March 9, 2020

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farmers began a four-day sales strike on Monday to protest the government’s hike of export taxes for soybeans and their byproducts, though shipments were not impacted in the major global food exporter. Three of the South American country’s four main rural associations announced the strike last week in frustration […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Canada rules out sending police in on rail protests

Superior Propane expects supply shortages soon

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News February 15, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Liberal government said on Friday it was deeply concerned about protests by aboriginal activists that are blocking some key railway lines but rejected a call to send in the police. Indigenous communities opposed to the construction of a gas pipeline project in British Columbia started interrupting rail traffic last week. […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Markets, Reuters, Weather

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

By Allison Lampert, Kelsey Johnson November 25, 2019

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — A prolonged strike at Canadian National Railway, the country’s largest railroad, sent further shocks through the economy on Monday with grain shipments scuttled and layoffs planned at fertilizer producers and an auto shipment terminal. As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade entered its seventh day, industry kept pressuring the government […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Reuters

China to subsidize grain transportation, storage

By Reuters November 24, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to subsidize grain transportation and storage facilities in the latest push by Beijing to modernize the world’s largest agriculture sector. Beijing will subsidize projects upgrading or building facilities to load and receive grains along main railways and ports for major waterways including the Yangtze and Pearl rivers, a document […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Cargill CEO sees Harvey not likely weighing much on farm freight

By David Alire Garcia September 1, 2017

Mexico City | Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill does not expect a significant impact on freight costs or logistics from the massive flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, its top executive said Friday. Cargill CEO David MacLennan said while it was still too early to assess the full impact of the […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Owen Sound, Baie-Comeau in revamped port sale program

By Alberta Farmer Staff April 24, 2015

Two ports hosting grain terminals are up for sale and possibly divestiture under a new federal program to get out of the port business. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt on Friday announced a new Ports Asset Transfer Program (PATP) to “facilitate the transfer” of port facilities to other owners or levels of government, naming 50 ports […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. farmers hit hard by labour strife at West Coast ports

By Steve Gorman February 13, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters –– Protracted labour strife and shipping disruptions at U.S. West Coast ports have hit farmers especially hard, posing a major barrier to perishable goods headed to overseas markets and resulting in losses estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars a week. Foreign Pacific Rim customers facing chronic delays in shipments of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. West Coast port operations resume, more labour talks scheduled

By Steve Gorman February 9, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. West Coast port operations resumed in full on Monday after shipping companies suspended loading and unloading of freighters for the weekend, citing chronic cargo backups the shippers and dockworkers have blamed on each other during months of labour tensions. Reopening of the ports to cargo vessels idled by the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. shippers say West Coast ports near gridlock on stalled contract talks

By Reuters January 13, 2015

San Francisco | Reuters — Cargo traffic at several of the biggest U.S. West Coast ports has slowed to near gridlock, negotiators for shipping lines and terminal operators for 29 ports said on Monday as contract talks with the dockworkers’ union remain strained. Union officials however have denied staging slowdowns, saying some of decisions by […] Read more

ICE weekly outlook: Canola stronger after Canada Day

Ontario investigating 17 temp agencies after virus outbreaks on farms

U.S. grains: Corn pauses after fund buying spree, watches weather

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