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ICE November 2019 canola with 20- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

ICE weekly outlook: Farmers advised to price some new crop

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News February 6, 2019

ICE Futures canola contracts held within a narrow trading range during the week ended Wednesday, as participants await fresh market-moving news. While the sideways trading range could persist in the near term, an analyst said new-crop futures were at decent levels and encouraged farmers to do some forward pricing. The November canola contract settled Wednesday […] Read more

Aerial view of a rapeseed field in Germany. (Cinoby/E+/Getty Images)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

By GFM Network News February 6, 2019

Paris | Reuters — Bayer said on Wednesday that farmers in France and Germany were digging up thousands of hectares of rapeseed fields after traces of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned for cultivation were found in seeds sold by the company. GMO crops are widely grown across the world, but they remain controversial in Europe, […] Read more

The arrest in Vancouver of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, shown here with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an investment forum in Moscow in October 2014, has further dampened hopes of revived commodity flows between the U.S. and China. (File photo: Reuters/Alexander Bibik)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canadian canola runs into Chinese delays after Huawei arrest

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News February 5, 2019

Winnipeg/Beijing | Reuters — A political dispute between China and Canada over the arrest of a Huawei executive is slowing canola shipments through Chinese ports and causing some importers to hesitate to buy from their biggest supplier, according to interviews with a dozen traders. Since Canadian authorities arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in […] Read more

(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Weekly canola exports pick up

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News February 1, 2019

Weekly Canadian canola exports hit their highest level in more than two months during the week ended Sunday, helping narrow the gap between this year’s export pace and the year-ago movement. Canola exports of 268,500 tonnes during week 26 of the crop year were roughly double the previous week’s total and the largest movement in […] Read more

ICE March 2019 canola (candlestick chart) with CBOT March 2019 soyoil (green line). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola waits on trade talks, USDA reports

By GFM Network News January 30, 2019

ICE canola futures are quiet at the end of January, but could see some movement from outside influences in the coming weeks, according to Exceed Grain senior marketing analyst Wayne Palmer. “Everybody is waiting to see what’s going to happen with the Chinese/United States (trade) talks,” he said. Two days of high-level trade negotiations between […] Read more

ICE March 2019 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Weak export data holds back canola market

By GFM Network News January 23, 2019

The Canadian dollar and vegetable oil are the main supports for canola contracts on the futures markets, but sluggish exports are holding it back from further gains, said a market analyst. Other than being down on Monday, canola has finished up in five of its last six sessions, according to Pro Farmer Canada’s Mike Jubinville. […] Read more

Canola, Crops

My name is Bob and I have clubroot

Don’t be afraid to let the world know that this disease hit your farm

By Lee Hart January 18, 2019

Finding the first plants or patch of clubroot on your farm is nothing to hide or be ashamed of says Autumn Barnes, an agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada. The fact is, she says for farmers in Alberta, and probably most parts of Western Canada, it is a matter of when the disease […] Read more

A still image taken from CCTV video shows Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg on Jan. 14 in court, where on retrial for drug smuggling he was sentenced to the death penalty in Dalian in China’s Liaoning province. (Photo: CCTV/Reuters TV)

Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola trade on edge over China tensions

By GFM Network News January 18, 2019

Canadian canola exports to China face some uncertainty as concerns mount that political tensions between the two countries could spill into trade. The back-and-forth tariff dispute between the U.S. and China, and resulting decline in Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans, originally led to ideas that Canada would pick up some of the slack with increased […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Quiet winter has canola steadying

By GFM Network News January 17, 2019

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures canola market is expected to stabilize now as there isn’t really any big news to drive North American oilseed markets. “We don’t have something very dominant for traders to focus on and supplies are pretty comfortable everywhere in the oilseed complex for now… the only factor that has hurt […] Read more

From left to right, Rob Saik, founder and former president of AgriTrend Agrology who created the contest; Merle Klassen, Canola 100 winner; Yancy Wright, senior agronomist with John Deere; and Lander Anderson, a representative of Cervus Equipment, the John Deere dealer in Trochu, Alta.

Canola, Features

Canola 100 contest winner sees green

No one achieved a 100-bushel yield, but results were still impressive

By Lee Hart January 16, 2019

As central-Alberta farmer Merle Klassen claims the grand prize, the three-season long contest called the Canola 100 Challenge is all but history for their farm, except for a few hundred hours of quality field time with a fleet of John Deere equipment during the 2019 growing season. Klassen, who along with family members operates Klassen […] Read more

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

GFM Network News

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

Canola

ICE weekly outlook: Farmers advised to price some new crop

French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

Canadian canola runs into Chinese delays after Huawei arrest

Weekly canola exports pick up

ICE weekly outlook: Canola waits on trade talks, USDA reports

ICE weekly outlook: Weak export data holds back canola market

My name is Bob and I have clubroot

Canola trade on edge over China tensions

ICE weekly outlook: Quiet winter has canola steadying

Canola 100 contest winner sees green

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