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After a relatively quiet March with just one outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry, Quebec has turned up 13 outbreaks so far this month.

A major shareholder in pea and canola protein processor Merit Functional Foods has brought on an unnamed partner in its bid to buy the business out of receivership.

According to updated supply and demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian pea, chickpea and edible bean exports will likely beat earlier expectations during the current 2022-23 marketing year.

Statistics Canada released its first acreage report for the 2023 growing season this morning.

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.

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

Saskatchewan and Japan are strengthening their economic ties.

The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency says there is little reason to worry about spring runoff from last week's heavy snowstorm. Patrick Boyle with the Water Security Agency says cooler weather has prompted a slow, steady melt of snow this week.

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