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Clubroot galls on a canola plant. (Video screengrab from Canola Council of Canada via YouTube)

Clubroot able to beat resistant canola reaches Manitoba

By GFM Network News September 10, 2019

A strain of clubroot able to club the roots of some resistant canola varieties has made its way east to Manitoba. Manitoba’s agriculture department reported Friday that clubroot pathotype 3A — a strain that can “overcome some first-generation sources of genetic resistance” in commercial canola — has been positively identified in the south-central rural municipality […] Read more

Federal International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr speaks at the China-Canada economic and financial strategy dialogue in Beijing on Nov. 12, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee/Pool)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

Canada takes first step at WTO to challenge China’s canola ban

By GFM Network News September 6, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada, locked in a major dispute with Beijing, is taking the first formal step at the World Trade Organization to challenge China’s decision to block Canadian canola exports, Trade Minister Jim Carr said Friday. China, angry at Canada’s detention of a top Huawei Technologies executive last year on a U.S. arrest […] Read more

Canola, Corn, Crops, Markets

Fund traders add to net short positions in canola, corn

By GFM Network News September 6, 2019

MarketsFarm — Fund traders added to their large net short position in canola during the week ended Tuesday, 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 canola came in Tuesday at 65,750, an increase of 3,600 contracts from the […] Read more

Dominic Barton. (Video screengrab from McKinsey.com)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

By GFM Network News September 5, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has appointed veteran business consultant Dominic Barton as ambassador to China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, as the government grapples with a major diplomatic and trade dispute between the nations. Barton, 56, a Ugandan-born Canadian who stepped down as global managing partner of consulting firm McKinsey and Co. […] Read more

ICE November 2019 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Count on canola remaining rangebound

By GFM Network News September 4, 2019

MarketsFarm — Despite three reports to be released between now and Thursday next week, canola is very likely to remain rangebound along with other oilseeds, said David Derwin of PI Financial in Winnipeg. Statistics Canada on Friday will release its report for grain stocks as of July 31; then the federal agency issues its satellite-survey […] Read more

Canola, Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Short position steady in canola, growing in corn

By GFM Network News September 3, 2019

MarketsFarm — Fund traders were content to sit on their large net short position in canola during the week ended Aug. 27, 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 at 62,104 on Aug. […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Rangebound canola looks for bounce

By GFM Network News August 28, 2019

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts moved lower during the week ended Wednesday but remain rangebound overall, as market participants continued to await a clearer picture on the size of the 2019 crop. “The overall grain and oilseed complex still feels heavily weighted, but I’m hoping for at least a short-term bounce,” said Mike Jubinville […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Bearish bets decline in canola

By GFM Network News August 26, 2019

MarketsFarm — While speculators were increasing bearish bets for Chicago soybeans and corn during the week ended Tuesday, canola traders were taking back some of their large net short positions. 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 canola […] Read more

Blackleg disease incidence in the crop was medium to medium-high. However, I thought the blackleg was compounding another, larger issue in this crop. Some of the roots looked funny when we pulled the plants out of the soil, almost like there was an abundance of organic matter or extra loamy soil collecting at the roots.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Irregular canola pod shatter a mystery

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the August 27, 2019 issue of Grainews

By Jaclyn Hunter August 23, 2019

Dave, who farms 6,000 acres of wheat, barley, peas and canola in Central Alberta, was trying out a new canola seed variety, which was in its first market year. The variety had clubroot resistance and had also been selected for some pod shatter tolerance. Throughout the growing season, the canola crop had developed normally, and […] Read more

File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 22, 2019

Winnipeg/Paris | Reuters — Crop-scorching drought in Europe is providing Canadian canola farmers a timely new opportunity to move supplies that have piled up since China stopped buying this year. Rising European sales are taking some of the sting out of losing the Chinese market for Canadian farmers, although ICE canola futures prices are down […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Canola

Clubroot able to beat resistant canola reaches Manitoba

Canada takes first step at WTO to challenge China’s canola ban

Fund traders add to net short positions in canola, corn

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

ICE weekly outlook: Count on canola remaining rangebound

Short position steady in canola, growing in corn

ICE weekly outlook: Rangebound canola looks for bounce

Bearish bets decline in canola

Crop advisor casebook: Irregular canola pod shatter a mystery

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

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