Canola & Production Tips

Funds building large net short position in canola

By GFM Network News January 18, 2018

CNS Canada — Fund traders are sitting on large net short positions in ICE Futures Canada canola and likely have room to add to those positions, which should keep values under pressure. While there is no official reporting on fund positions in the ICE Futures Canada market, as there is in the U.S., traders estimate […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola looks for direction

By GFM Network News January 17, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts remain stuck in a sideways trading pattern, with little hint of which way values will eventually break. Canola “is getting tugged from different sources,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg, adding that “it could go up or down $5 depending on what happens around it.” […] Read more

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Canola 100 “game on” for 2018

The big green prize is still out there waiting to be claimed at the end of the coming growing season

By Lee Hart January 17, 2018

Merle Klassen is definitely “in” for competition for the big green prize in 2018. Klassen, who farms with family members near Linden, about an hour north of Calgary is yield leader so far in a Canada wide contest among canola growers to produce a 100 bushel canola crop. Klassen produced 85.88 bushels per acre on […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Cold-weather bump expected for canola

By GFM Network News January 10, 2018

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola complex is facing a slew of supportive and bearish factors as it slowly makes its way through the first part of January. Foremost on traders’ minds is a batch of reports set to be released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday. Already, there are ideas […] Read more

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Tips to help manage clubroot proactively, not reactively

Clubroot continues to spread. Don’t be too sure it won’t happen to you

By Aaron Miller January 3, 2018

Clubroot is rapidly spreading across Western Canada. Whether or not it’s in your fields, all canola growers need to be concerned about clubroot. Once a field is infected, clubroot will always be present, so preventing the spread of the disease is critical. A clubroot infection, in good environmental conditions, can devastate a canola field and […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: March canola fights to stay above $500

By GFM Network News December 21, 2017

CNS Canada — As traders exit the trading floor ahead of the holidays, canola futures continue to chop around amid thin volumes. “More and more traders are stepping away from the market, either because of holidays or not wanting to have big positions on ahead of them,” said Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion Securities in […] Read more

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Bearish chart signals keep canola pointed lower

By GFM Network News December 18, 2017

CNS Canada — Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform have lost roughly $30 per tonne over the past month and have more room to the downside from a chart standpoint. The nearby January contract settled Monday at $491.20 per tonne, just above the September low of $489.50. A break below that point would […] Read more

As growers know, canola can be a very durable crop able to bounce back from heavy rain, insect pests and even to some extent hail events. It does have its limits, but despite adversity can recover amazingly well. With good agronomic practices and variable weather conditions the question is still to be answered — did any fields in the 2017 Canola 100 challenge produce that magic yield?

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Extra canola inputs appear to pay off

That 100-bushel yield still a bit elusive, but growers are pushing their fields to the limits

By Lee Hart December 15, 2017

David Harrish figures the extra agronomic attention he paid to a Canola 100 contest plot on his north-central Alberta farm in 2017 would probably pay off for the rest of his canola acres. Harrish, who dished out some extra TLC to about 70 acres of Pioneer Hi-Bred canola this past season, says it produced about […] Read more

A microscopic-level view of fat tissue from a mouse. (Saverio Cinti and Andrew Greenberg photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Canola study on Alzheimer mice seen as ‘huge stretch’

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 14, 2017

Upon review, a U.S. study of what happened to mice bred for Alzheimer’s symptoms when canola oil was added to their diet doesn’t translate to a risk for people, researchers and the Canola Council of Canada say. The mouse study, which was published last week by researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia, examined mice genetically […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola sliding lower

By GFM Network News December 13, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts have trended lower for the past month and still have some more room to the downside heading into the New Year, according to an analyst. “I think we’ll go lower,” said Errol Anderson, of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, citing a number of bearish factors. Activity in the […] Read more

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Funds building large net short position in canola

ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola looks for direction

Canola 100 “game on” for 2018

ICE weekly outlook: Cold-weather bump expected for canola

Tips to help manage clubroot proactively, not reactively

ICE weekly outlook: March canola fights to stay above $500

Bearish chart signals keep canola pointed lower

Extra canola inputs appear to pay off

Canola study on Alzheimer mice seen as ‘huge stretch’

ICE weekly outlook: Canola sliding lower

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