Agriculture

Prairie wheat and barley growers saw payments of about $5.5 billion for their deliveries to the Canadian Wheat Board during its 2010-11 crop year.

British Columbia has announced plans to shift its liquor warehousing and distribution business to the private sector by 2015.

Western Canadian canola cash bids continue to move upward with record crushing, solid export demand and chart-based buying providing underlying support.

Agrifood firm Cargill's Winnipeg-based Canadian arm plans to permanently shut its "outdated" grain elevator and ag input facility on the city's east side by the end of this month.

It was a gift with strings attached, but that was just fine with Bekelech Basa.

Feeder cattle prices in Western Canada were steady to $3 per hundredweight higher last week after stagnating in the first half of February.

The union for Canadian Pacific Railway's train crews and rail traffic controllers isn't yet in a strike position, but the railway already wants Ottawa to drop a conciliator into their contract talks.

The absence of willing sellers and advances in other grains are adding some firmness to feed barley values in southern Alberta.

Prairie pulse and special crop processor Legumex Walker has bought its way into the U.S. dry bean and dehulled sunflower seed markets.