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ICE weekly outlook: Canola scale-up selling to temper gains

MarketsFarm – ICE Futures canola contracts climbed above chart resistance to hit their highest levels in six-months on July 29. While there is more room to the upside, farmer selling could temper additional gains. Fund traders adding to long positions together with solid export demand, especially from Europe, accounted for much of the recent strength […] Read more

This post-harvest photo of a canola stem with verticillium stripe shows how the stem has senesced and the epidermis is shredding to reveal the microsclerotia.

Canola, Crops, Features

Verticillium stripe should be on your radar for 2020 and beyond

Three things you need to know about the disease

By Melanie Epp 5 days ago

When Verticillium longisporum-infected canola was first discovered in Manitoba in 2014, it was quickly followed by countrywide soil surveys conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in 2015. Those surveys revealed V. longisporum populations in British Columbia and every province eastward as far as, and including, Quebec. And while it hasn’t reached the point where […] Read more

Canola, Markets

Total Canadian canola exports solid, despite lost sales to China

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News 6 days ago

Canadian canola exports are running well ahead of the year-ago pace with increased business to Europe and the United Arab Emirates more than making up for reduced sales to China, according to the latest monthly export data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Canada has exported 9.166 million tonnes of canola during the 11 months of […] Read more

Canola, Markets

Managed money backing out of bearish canola bets

By GFM Network News July 27, 2020

MarketsFarm – Fund traders were backing out of bearish bets in canola while actively putting on new longs during the week ended July 21, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (CoT) report compiled by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in ICE Futures canola came in […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Canola crush edges up, soybean crush falls

By GFM Network News July 25, 2020

MarketsFarm — As the amount of canola crushed in Canada increased slightly in June, the soybean crush was down significantly, according to the latest monthly report from Statistics Canada. The federal agency on Thursday released crushing statistics for major oilseeds, which showed 864,559 tonnes of canola crushed in June, up 1.12 per cent from the […] Read more

Canola plants that are highly infected with clubroot may have large galls.

Canola, Crops

Steps to prevent and mitigate clubroot in your fields

Your guide to identification, risk reduction and disease control

By Melanie Epp July 23, 2020

Clubroot is a serious soil-borne disease. If conditions are right, it can cause up to 100 per cent yield loss in canola. And while yield loss can be low when conditions aren’t favourable, the pathogen is hardy and easily overwinters in the tough Canadian climate. Come spring, resting spores not only germinate where they overwintered, […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola under pressure at midweek

By GFM Network News July 22, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canola contracts have received considerable pressure from outside sources, but held above $480 per tonne this week. Ken Ball of P.I. Financial in Winnipeg expected canola to be down by $6-$10, but nearby contracts closed lower by about a dollar at $483.60 per tonne. Ball referred to weakness in Chicago soyoil, along with […] Read more

Two plants infected with brown girdling root rot (right) and two uninfected plants (left).

Canola, Crops

How to identify and prevent root rots in canola

If you’re not scouting for root rots, that doesn’t mean they’re not there

By Melanie Epp July 21, 2020

Survey data from Western Canada’s provincial agriculture departments don’t have really good numbers when it comes to root rots. The difficulty is not many growers are scouting for them, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there. The pathogens that cause root rot can impact yield severely, especially if infection occurs early in the season. The […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Funds covering short positions in canola

By Phil Franz-warkentin, MarketsFarm, GFM Network News July 18, 2020

MarketsFarm — Fund traders continued to bail out of short positions in canola during the week ended July 14, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in ICE Futures canola came in July 14 at 23,113 (9,650 long/32,763 short), […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Higher loonie, lower canola

By GFM Network News July 15, 2020

MarketsFarm — As the Canadian dollar pushes higher, canola prices could drop to the low end of its support or further, according to Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. The loonie closed Wednesday at 73.89 U.S. cents, after stepping above 74 U.S. cents a number of times during trading. At the end of the […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as U.S. biodiesel data lifts soyoil; corn flat

Strong crops in southern Alberta, weaker ratings in north

Feds put up $58.6 M for temporary foreign worker supports

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U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as U.S. biodiesel data lifts soyoil; corn flat

Strong crops in southern Alberta, weaker ratings in north

Feds put up $58.6 M for temporary foreign worker supports

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola scale-up selling to temper gains

Verticillium stripe should be on your radar for 2020 and beyond

Total Canadian canola exports solid, despite lost sales to China

Managed money backing out of bearish canola bets

Canola crush edges up, soybean crush falls

Steps to prevent and mitigate clubroot in your fields

ICE weekly outlook: Canola under pressure at midweek

How to identify and prevent root rots in canola

Funds covering short positions in canola

ICE weekly outlook: Higher loonie, lower canola

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