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ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola seeks spark

By GFM Network News January 31, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts remain stuck within a sideways trading range awaiting a spark that would push values one way or the other. “We could have had this conversation two months ago… canola is refusing to budge from a range,” analyst Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada said of the lack of […] Read more

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

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Canola ‘streaming’ firm eyes mortgage business

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 30, 2018

A Saskatchewan company that offers farmers cash up front for canola to be grown later is now tentatively bringing its model to the farm mortgage business. Input Capital, which sources canola from Prairie growers through multi-year “streaming” contracts, announced Tuesday it has launched a “mortgage stream” as a pilot project. Input, which set up in […] Read more

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Lygus bug: Profile of a crop pest

By Melanie Epp January 30, 2018

The lygus bug is an interesting pest. Native to Canada, adult insects overwinter under plant debris and migrate into crops, including canola, alfalfa, soybeans and sunflowers. Arriving in spring and summer, they lay their eggs on crop stems. Lygus is a complex that refers to four species: L. elisus (pale legume bug), L. lineolaris (tarnished […] Read more

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Lygus bugs: know when to spray them

Researchers are revisiting economic threshold recommendations on spraying these bugs

By Melanie Epp January 30, 2018

[UPDATED: Jan. 31, 2018] Economic thresholds are developed and publicized so farmers will know when it makes sense to spray for a particular pest. For example, the economic threshold might be that if you have two bugs in your sweep net, the yield you gain will make it worth your costs and time to spray […] Read more

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola creeps toward $500

By GFM Network News January 24, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts are showing signs of wanting to climb higher due to recent moves in soybean oil and the Canadian dollar. The front-month March contract is still below the benchmark $500 per tonne mark but is starting to creep toward it. Some of the movement can likely be traced […] Read more

Although there was lots of green in the field, some areas were patchy where the plant stand was thin. In other spots, entire rows were missing plants. There was no obvious pattern.

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Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s attracting seagulls to this canola field?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the January 23, 2018 issue of Grainews

By Joelle Burnstad January 23, 2018

Paul, who farms 3,500 acres north of Camrose, Alta., was convinced cutworms were taking a bite out of his canola crop. It was mid-June last year when he noticed his canola plant stand was thin. Also, many seagulls were circling the field. He thought cutworms were attracting the birds, as well as damaging his crop […] Read more

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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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ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola seeks spark

Canola ‘streaming’ firm eyes mortgage business

Lygus bug: Profile of a crop pest

Lygus bugs: know when to spray them

ICE weekly outlook: Canola creeps toward $500

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s attracting seagulls to this canola field?

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

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