GX94 Agriculture

Canadian Western Agribition signed a pair of agreements with their Mexican and Australian counterparts to encourage more international trade, collaboration, and, from Agribition's point-of-view, promote Canadian cattle genetics.

This week was a short one due to the Victoria Day long weekend, but the July Canola and Minneapolis Wheat contracts made the most of it.

Farmers are over half-way done seeding even as rain continued to fall in many areas. The Provincial crop report for the week of May 14 to 20 shows seeding at 56 per cent complete, up from 32 per cent last week.

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) and the Regina Food Bank (RFB) are joining forces to fight food insecurity and advance indoor agriculture in Saskatchewan.

The latest weekly cattle market update from Canfax reflects the continued seasonal slowdown of the cattle market. Four feeder steer and three heifer weight categories reported prices for the week ending May 17. Prices for steers ranged from $361.

Seeding progress has been observed in many areas of Manitoba this past week and is now at 47% complete. Producers have focused on planting corn (65% complete), cereals (70% complete) and peas (90% complete).

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 92% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 41, an improvement from the 89% order fulfillment performance seen the prior week.

Seeding kick-started the latest SaskAgToday.com Roundtable with Chief Agricultural Editor Kevin Hursh, 620 CKRM AgriNews Director Ryan Young, and GX94 Agriculture Director Doug Falconer.

Seeding in Saskatchewan is nearly one-third of the way done. The Provincial crop report released Thursday morning notes seeding province-wide is 32 per cent complete, up from 12 per cent last week.