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Seeding very close to wrapping up in Alberta

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Spring planting in Alberta has almost wrapped up for this year, with the agriculture ministry pegging it at 97 per cent complete province-wide as of June 4. Seeding advanced 20 points on the week with the pace at the five-year average. The greatest overall progress was made in northeastern, northwestern and central Alberta. The northeast […] Read more
Open interest in the canola market was down by 14,880 contracts on the week. Photo: File
Markets

Fund short position grows in canola

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Fund traders were back on the sell side of the canola market in early June, putting on fresh bearish bets and growing their net short position, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of June 4, 2024, the net managed money short position in […] Read more
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Columns, Crops

Zero till: how did it all happen?

Soils & Crops: In Saskatchewan, necessity was the mother of more than one invention

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In March 1993 in Grainews there appeared a piece by a certain soils columnist titled “A Quiet Revolution in Crop Production.” It concluded that within the next two decades we’d see a revolution in the way we farmed. It came to pass much as predicted — but what made it happen was work in farm […] Read more
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Markets

ICE canola weekly outlook: Peaks likely in for the season

The ICE Futures canola market fell sharply lower during the first few trading days of June, taking out several former support levels on the way down as large old crop supplies, relatively favourable new crop production prospects and speculative fund selling weighed on prices.
According to Hector Carcamo of AAFC, low populations of lygus bugs can actually benefit canola crops.
Canola, Features

When a pest isn’t a pest

Finding flea beetles and lygus bugs in canola fields doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a problem. Sometimes lygus bugs can even benefit the crop

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Insect pests aren’t always true pests. Hard as it may be for farmers to imagine, sometimes the insects do more good than harm. That was a key message from an April online seminar on insect control in canola organized by the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. The three panelists — Alejandro […] Read more
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Markets

Bigger cereal, pulse crops for Australia as canola contracts

Winter crop production in Australia has been projected to increase nine per cent at 51.3 million tonnes for 2024/25. That’s according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences which issued its latest supply and demand report on June 3.
Parliament Hill, in Ottawa – Ontario, Canada. Photo: Ulysse Pixel
News

Farm groups criticize capital gains inclusion rate change

Ten national organizations say several tax-related changes in the 2024 federal budget will impact farmers 

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In a May 27 letter to finance minister Chrystia Freeland, agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay and national revenue minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, 10 signatories said they are concerned about the capital gains inclusion rate, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and the Canadian Entrepreneurs’ Incentive (CEI), which were all announced in April.
A ship is docked for unloading at G3’s St. Lawrence River terminal at Trois-Rivieres, Que. (G3.ca)
Markets, News

St. Lawrence Seaway grain movement up five per cent in 2023

Grain movement through the St. Lawrence Seaway was up by five per cent in 2023 compared to the previous year, with Canadian wheat accounting for well over half of all the grain moved, according to a joint report from the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLMC) and the United States Great Lakes St. Lawrence Development Corporation (GLS) released May 27.

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