Canola & Production Tips

Straight cutting canola for the first time?

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

By Norm Flore August 3, 2018

Q: What should I know before I try straight cutting canola? A: Many growers have successfully adopted this practice and it’s a viable alternative to swathing and combining. As a standing canola crop reaches maturity the risk of pod shatter and/or pod drop is a key impediment to straight cutting. However, the introduction of varieties […] Read more

Canola south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)

Canola, Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Weather

Prairie crop tour sees slightly bigger wheat, canola yields

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News July 26, 2018

Saskatoon | Reuters — Canadian farmers were on track to reap slightly larger wheat and canola yields, despite dry conditions and a wide discrepancy in growth rates, a crop tour estimated on Thursday. The inaugural Grain World crop tour, organized by FarmLink Marketing Solutions, toured the Prairie provinces on Tuesday and Wednesday. Moisture conditions vary […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Big crop keeps market under pressure

By GFM Network News July 25, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada’s canola contracts were up and down during the week ended Wednesday, lacking any clear direction as values consolidated above the nine-month lows set the previous week. “Canola is a follower and does not have a mind of its own,” said analyst Wayne Palmer of Agri-Trend. The underlying fundamentals were […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops

Canola crushing steady

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News July 25, 2018

CNS Canada — Canada’s domestic canola crushing remains steady year over year. Statistics Canada data show 742,573 tonnes of canola seed crushed in June this year, which marks a slight rise from 731,124 in June 2017 and 702,716 in the same month of 2016. Domestic crushers processed 765,216 tonnes of seed in May of this […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Dry weather keeping canola from more downside

By GFM Network News July 18, 2018

CNS Canada –– A lack of rain in Western Canada may be the only thing keeping canola futures prices from dropping much further than they have already. The dominant November contract was above $525 a tonne in late June, but has since fallen to the $490 mark as of Wednesday. Global trade disruptions and a […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Machinery, Markets

Crude oil and canola part company, for now

By GFM Network News July 13, 2018

CNS Canada — The symbiotic relationship that crude oil and canola used to enjoy seems to have hit a snag. Chart structures have proven that crude prices have pushed and pulled canola up and down in recent years. However, since the start of 2018, the gains enjoyed by crude oil have failed to lift canola. […] Read more

ICE Futures Canada’s head office in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: More downside likely for canola

By GFM Network News July 11, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures fell sharply lower during the week ended Wednesday, but could still have more room to the downside as the oilseed remains overpriced compared to the slumping U.S. soybean market. Mounting trade tensions between the U.S. and China led to a selloff in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Six steps to help prevent clubroot in canola

By Lisa Guenther July 9, 2018

Back in 2013, John Guelly discovered some dead canola plants with ominous-looking root galls at his Westlock-area farm. But even though clubroot was already known to be in his area, he hadn’t seen it himself, and he wasn’t sure what it looked like. People were secretive about the disease, he told farmers, agronomists and other […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

ICE weekly outlook: Canola to face pressure from northbound U.S. soy

By GFM Network News July 5, 2018

CNS Canada — As Friday’s deadline nears for Chinese tariffs to be imposed on imports of U.S. soybeans, so too does the idea that eastern crushers could soon be bringing those unwanted beans into Canada. “Soybeans have become so cheap we’re going to find them leaking across the border, especially into Ontario,” said Mike Jubinville […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

StatsCan: Canola area narrows, wheat sowings expand

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 29, 2018

Reuters — Canadian farmers seeded less canola and more wheat compared with last year, but they shifted their plans from earlier this spring to sow more land with canola. Canola plantings reached 22.7 million acres, shy of last year’s 23 million, but exceeding the average trade guess of 22.4 million acres. In spring, Statscan estimated […] Read more

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Canola

Straight cutting canola for the first time?

Prairie crop tour sees slightly bigger wheat, canola yields

ICE weekly outlook: Big crop keeps market under pressure

Canola crushing steady

ICE weekly outlook: Dry weather keeping canola from more downside

Crude oil and canola part company, for now

ICE weekly outlook: More downside likely for canola

Six steps to help prevent clubroot in canola

ICE weekly outlook: Canola to face pressure from northbound U.S. soy

StatsCan: Canola area narrows, wheat sowings expand

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