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ICE November 2021 canola (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (green line) and July 2021 canola (yellow open/high/low/close). (Barchart)

ICE weekly outlook: Attention turns to new-crop canola

'Somebody's feet will be held to the fire'

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News May 20, 2021

MarketsFarm — Wide price swings in the nearby ICE Futures July canola contract over the past few weeks have sent most commercial trade into the new-crop November, with direction in the front month hard to predict given recent volatility. “Where (July canola) finally goes off the board, I have no idea, but I wouldn’t be […] Read more

CBOT July 2021 soybeans with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Commodities see ‘much needed’ correction

'You’re not going to go up every day'

By GFM Network News May 20, 2021

MarketsFarm — A bullish market and sharp increases in commodities at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), turned downward Wednesday in what Sean Lusk of Walsh Commercial Hedging Services called a “much needed correction.” Prices pulled back that day by varying degrees for soybean, corn and wheat futures, coinciding with declines in other commodity futures […] Read more

CBOT July 2021 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange, green lines) and MGEX July 2021 wheat (black line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybeans plunge on fund selling

Chicago July corn flat

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News May 20, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and wheat futures fell more than two per cent on Wednesday, with traders noting selling by investment funds as commodity contracts tumbled through key technical support points. The most-active corn futures ended unchanged, steadying after trading in negative territory for much of the session. Deferred contracts were slightly lower. […] Read more

A mayfly on water. (SBTheGreenMan/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Weather

Federal reprieve for imidacloprid cuts its application rates

Proposal for near-total ban rejected in Health Canada's final decision

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 19, 2021

A member of the neonicotinoid family of insesticides and seed treatments has been pulled back from the brink of an all-out ban in Health Canada’s final re-evaluation ruling. Most agricultural uses of imidacloprid — sold by Bayer under brands such as Gaucho, Merit and Admire, and by Adama under brands such as Alias and Sombrero […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. judge raises doubts ahead of hearing on Roundup settlement

'The last question is a killer'

By GFM Network News May 19, 2021

Reuters — A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday questioned a US$2 billion proposal by Bayer that would create a framework for resolving future claims that its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, casting doubt on the plan a day before a key hearing. Bayer and class action attorneys hope U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco […] Read more

CN locomotives in Winnipeg. (Photo courtesy CN)

Crops, Reuters

CN shareholder urges changes to Kansas City Southern deal

Fund manager also holds stake in CP

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 18, 2021

Reuters — Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn on Tuesday urged Canadian National Railway to abandon its $33.6 billion bid for Kansas City Southern unless the Canadian railway changed its agreement to drop a key feature that could invite more regulatory scrutiny. Hohn’s TCI Fund Management, which has a 2.93 per cent stake in CN, […] Read more

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas, beans hold up in dry Manitoba

By GFM Network News May 18, 2021

MarketsFarm — Of the pulses being planted in Manitoba this spring, field peas and dry beans appear the best able to handle the difficult drought conditions the province continues to experience throughout its growing areas. Field peas “have a relatively low water requirement, similar to dry beans,” Cassandra Tkachuk, production specialist with Manitoba Pulse and […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Last year’s flour output up in most categories

By GFM Network News May 18, 2021

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada reported on Monday that Canadian wheat millers processed 3.267 million tonnes of all wheat in 2020 — a slight increase of about 2.1 per cent over 2019, keeping flour processing on the rise over the last four years. There were also year-to-year increases in the other categories tracked by the federal […] Read more

MGEX July 2021 wheat with 20- and 100-day moving averages (orange, green lines) and CBOT July 2021 wheat (yellow line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn and soy mixed, wheat down

Wheats lower on weather view for U.S. Plains

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News May 17, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and corn futures closed mixed on Monday, with nearby contracts firming on support from tight supplies and strength in the cash market, while forecasts for warm weather that will boost crop development in the U.S. Midwest pressured new-crop issues, traders said. “The outlook warmed up for the Midwest over […] Read more

Reports of spraying for diamond-back moths were very low in Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2020 and limited to only a few fields in Manitoba.

Canola, Crops

Your 2020 canola insect roundup

How big of a bite did pests take out of canola crops last year?

By Madeleine Baerg May 17, 2021

Mother Nature rarely gives an easy ride on the Prairie pest front. And 2020 was no exception, said James Tansey, Saskatchewan Agriculture’s provincial insect and vertebrate pest specialist, at Canola Council of Canada’s Canola Week 2020 held last December. Though some key canola pest species showed relatively low population densities in 2020, other pests caused […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

Crops