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ICE weekly outlook: Volatility expected in canola markets

MarketsFarm – The ICE Futures canola market saw some large price moves during the week ended Aug. 4, hitting their lowest levels in a month as investors booked profits before recovering to hold relatively range-bound overall. More choppiness is expected over the next few weeks, as the market waits to get a better handle on […] Read more

General, Markets

CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

By GFM Network News August 4, 2021

MarketsFarm – It was a record-breaking year for both of Canada’s two major freight railways. In separate news releases to the public on August 3, both Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) reported a record amount of grain moved during the 2020-21 crop year. For the first time ever, both […] Read more

The east side of my Dundurn quarter NW22 32 3W3.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: A snow job, Part 2

Watch out for crop variability in 2021

By Les Henry August 3, 2021

Drought is now the operative word in major areas of Prairie farming for 2021. The drought in this area started on July 8, 2020, and has been interrupted by only two significant events — the big snow and blow of November 7 and 8 last year and the welcome May 2021 long weekend rain of […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola range-bound, awaiting harvest

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 29, 2021

MarketsFarm – ICE Futures canola contracts held within a relatively narrow range during the week ended July 28, as traders wait to get a better handle on the size of the Canadian crop. “We’re just waiting to see as we get into harvest what the crop size and crop yields look like,” said Jamie Wilton, […] Read more

Crops

Crop quality greater in western Manitoba

By GFM Network News July 28, 2021

MarketsFarm – While the western parts of Manitoba are seeing healthy crops, the eastern and Interlake regions aren’t so fortunate, according to Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development. Crop ratings for both the southwest and northwest regions range from 50 to 75 per cent good to excellent, according to the province’s weekly crop report released on […] Read more

A Grain Giant in operation in Richardson, Sask., in August 2020.

Equipment, Features, Machinery

New mobile field bin makes harvest more efficient

The Grain Giant from Vale Industries keeps the combines and grain carts running

By Mark Halsall July 27, 2021

Jordan Haaland is the logistics team leader at Delage Farms, a 30,000-acre grain operation near Indian Head, Sask., and one of eight Saskatchewan farms to try out a new mobile field bin called the Grain Giant at harvest time last year. Haaland says the opportunity to use the Grain Giant couldn’t have come at a […] Read more

ICE November 2021 canola (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola corrects, but trend still up

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 21, 2021

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts posted some wide price swings over the week ended Wednesday, moving lower overall as the market backed away from nearby highs and speculative profit-taking weighed on values. “The trend is higher, but you can’t go up forever,” said trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg. While rains during […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Hot, dry weather creates ‘significant uncertainty,’ AAFC says

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 20, 2021

MarketsFarm — Supply/demand balance sheets for Canada’s major crops only saw minor adjustments in the latest update Tuesday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, with hot and dry growing conditions leading to “significant uncertainty” on the state of the country’s 2021-22 crops. Total field crop production in the country was forecast to decrease due to a […] Read more

With a precision planter, Ken Van Raay seeds canola just under the soil surface on highly tilled, heavily manured land. He runs a pivot after seeding.  He says the crop is up in two to seven days and he’s had the canopy close in less than 18 days.

Canola, Crops, Features

A fresh look at the benefits of precision-planted canola

Five Alberta producers share their experiences

By John Dietz July 19, 2021

Precisely placing individual corn or soybean seeds in a row has led some canola growers to switch from air seeders to vacuum planters in the past few years. For a fresh look in 2021, Grainews spoke with five Lethbridge-area growers who had experience with precision planting canola in 2020. Two producers carried out field trials […] Read more

ICE November 2021 canola (candlesticks) with 10-, 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green, purple and black lines). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: $1,000 canola not a guarantee

By GFM Network News July 14, 2021

MarketsFarm — Any idea of canola hitting $1,000 per tonne in the near future is not the sure thing some people may have thought it was, according to Errol Anderson, an analyst with ProMarket Communications in Calgary. “New-crop futures might take a run at $1,000 per tonne, but in the same breath the November contract […] Read more

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Canola

ICE weekly outlook: Volatility expected in canola markets

CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

Les Henry: A snow job, Part 2

ICE weekly outlook: Canola range-bound, awaiting harvest

Crop quality greater in western Manitoba

New mobile field bin makes harvest more efficient

ICE weekly outlook: Canola corrects, but trend still up

Hot, dry weather creates ‘significant uncertainty,’ AAFC says

A fresh look at the benefits of precision-planted canola

ICE weekly outlook: $1,000 canola not a guarantee

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