The Infrastructure Bank was sold as a catalyst for Canadian growth. Under the Liberals, it’s become a pipeline – funnelling your tax dollars out of Canada and into Beijing. When Mark Carney talks about “nation-building”, is he talking about Canada – or the CCP?

Me, an Eastern European from former Soviet bloc, watching rich celebs campaign for “government-run grocery stores”. They must truly despise ordinary people to come up with this.

Annual CO2 emissions of China exceeded emissions of all 38 OECD countries combined. Dear climate activists throwing tomato soup at Mona Lisa, you are in the wrong country.

Dairy supply management could sour Canada-US trade talks - Reuters apple.news/AeitGvm6zT82Se…

As of Monday, Sask canola crop looking a bit better. This week of heat won't help though.

One field looks like a bin-buster. The next? Not even close. Years like this are tricky. The crop’s uneven—and marketing with confidence isn’t easy. But you’re not alone. We’re all figuring it out together. This week on What the Futures, Chuck Penner from Leftfield Commodity

Beautiful story! My Regina church in the 1970s sponsored a family of Vietnamese refugees. My Winnipeg church sponsored a group of Syrian refugees in the 2010s. Thousands of these stories across Canada. cbc.ca/news/canada/fi…

“FARMER HEDGING” is a worldwide phenomenon and it does not discriminate between crops Corn, cotton, soybeans, coffee, sugar… You name it, this happens much more than it should given tools available to farmers around the globe

As an analyst, it's a disservice to our customers if we do anything other than call it as we see it. Sometimes (often) we are wrong; perhaps we jump too soon; factors change. But I've never regretted trying to share an honest view even if the message isn't what folks want to hear

Staggering.

Looks like China won’t be rolling back tariffs on Canadian ag products any time soon. Maybe adding more? Once more, farmers thrown under the bus.

And here's the one for oil content. Again, interesting but not rigorously scientific.

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That's a wrap on 2024/25. Happy New (Crop) Year! Here's a summary of 24/25 price movement. Keep in mind, recent declines are normal seasonal behaviour. For a look ahead at 25/26, sign up for our free 4-week trial. New features in our Farm Market Letter leftfieldcr.com

They fear the past because it reminds them they’re unworthy of it. They walk through cities they didn’t build, govern nations they didn’t shape, and speak languages forged by men they would cancel today. Every statue, every cathedral, every anthem is a mirror — and they don’t

Canola field in Elm Creek with friends from Lachstock Consulting. Farmers comparing notes about production in Cda and Aust.

Why is the political class and commentariat in Europe not praising Argentina‘s economic miracle under Javier Milei? On top of it, he is staunchly pro-Western. Does it have to do with his approach contradicting the paradigm of state spending in the West?

Not sure how USDA came up with a 40.9 bu/ac durum yield for 2025, higher than last year at 39.3 and avg of 38.2.