Crops

Viterra port facilities in Vancouver and Montreal are the sites of picket lines set up, as the Public Sectors Alliance of Canada strike is in its 7th day.

A Canadian ag organization is in a transition period as it searches for new permanent leadership. Grain Growers of Canada is seeking a new executive director after Erin Gowriluk departed the organization after five years.

CN and CP Rail supplied a combined 94% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 37, an improvement from the previous week's 87%. The improvement reflects improved performance for each of CN and CP.

Canadian National Railway has upped its financial forecast for the year after reaping record first-quarter revenues from a bumper grain crop and higher oil prices.

There will be slightly more wheat and canola acres seeded in Canada this year compared to last year, if traders and analysts are correct with their estimates Statistics Canada will release its first survey-based acreage estimates for the 2023-24 mark

The Prime Minister of Poland claims European Union measures to help farmers affected by a glut of Ukrainian food imports are too little too late. On Friday, the government approved 3.23 billion dollars Canadian in aid for Polish agriculture.

Russia's former president says that if the G7 moves to ban exports to Russia, Moscow will respond by terminating the Black Sea Grain deal that enables vital exports of grain from Ukraine.

The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has begun the process of searching for the next president & CEO of the organization.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released its latest supply/demand projections on Friday. Canola ending stocks for both the current marketing year and 2023-24 were raised slightly.

Grain markets were showing downward movement this week. P.I.