Canola & Production Tips

Canola plant with verticillium stripe symptoms.

Researchers scramble to understand verticillium in Canada

While research into verticillium stripe is still in its infancy, agronomists are recommending crop rotation and better field practices

By Don Norman March 7, 2025

Verticillium is a newcomer among Canadian crop diseases, and according to Justine Cornelsen, agronomic and regulatory services manager with BrettYoung Seeds, researchers still have much to learn about it. “It was first identified on a farm south of Winnipeg in 2014, but it has now been identified in many other production regions,” she says. As […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Canola, Equipment, Markets

FCC’s charts to consider in 2025

On a per-acre basis, equipment costs have risen faster than farm revenue

By Farm Credit Canada February 28, 2025

Editor’s Note: Following are excerpts from a Jan. 15 blog post by the Economics branch of Farm Credit Canada. “As we start the new year amid new challenges, including slowing population growth and potential trade barriers, here are our top charts to help make sense of the economic environment for the agriculture and agri-food sector, […] Read more

Canola, Markets, Soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: Tariffs coming, may not last long says analyst

Canola likely to tally post-tariffs

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 26, 2025

To Errol Andersson of Errol's Commodity Wire in Calgary, there's little doubt the Trump administration will press ahead with tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

Canola, Features

Pioneer levels up against sclerotinia

Corteva’s new canola hybrid delivers fungicide-equivalent protection

By Don Norman February 26, 2025

Fungicide-equivalent protection against sclerotinia has long been an elusive target for canola breeders — but Pioneer appears to have cracked the code. The Corteva-owned seed brand released its P617SL hybrid commercially in 2024, and the company says its trial data backs up the fungicide-equivalent claim. While the Canola Council of Canada can’t speak to specific […] Read more

“But we lost a lot of acres… which suggests to me that some organic guys have let some of their organics land go. And they are growing canola on the side,” says Laura Telford. Photo: Greg Berg

Canola, Markets, Soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola set to climb higher

Supplies getting tighter

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 12, 2025

Canola has been on something of a tear for about a month with increases in 16 of its last 20 sessions on the Intercontinental Exchange as of Feb. 12. Despite a great amount of political chaos surrounding all of the markets, the Canadian oilseed is poised to climb higher for the rest of February, said broker Tony Tryhuk of RBC Dominion Securities in Winnipeg, Man.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Canola stocks shrink, wheat nudges up

StatCan issues stock report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 7, 2025

With a decline of 19.2 per cent, total canola stocks in Canada dropped from a year ago, while all wheat stocks bumped up 0.9 per cent, Statistics Canada reported on Feb. 7.

Canola, Markets

ICE canola weekly outlook: Uncertainty overhanging market

Tariff threats and U.S. biofuel questions

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 5, 2025

A pause on tariffs from the United States gave the canola market a boost during the first few trading days of February, although the outlook remains cloudy, and values ran into resistance on Feb. 5.