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Corn exports expected down in AAFC’s October outlook

By GFM Network News October 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on Friday issued its October outlook for principal field crops, with some revisions compared to the September report. One of the most notable numbers from AAFC was the drop in 2019-20 corn exports, which were estimated to be about 1.5 million tonnes, over 20 per cent less compared […] Read more

Crops

AAFC raises 2019-20 canola, wheat ending stocks

By GFM Network News September 24, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canadian ending stocks of canola and wheat will be larger than earlier thought, according to updated supply/demand tables Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released late Friday. AAFC raised its canola ending stocks estimate for 2019-20 to a record 4.5 million tonnes, up from the August estimate of 3.775 million and the upwardly-revised 2018-19 level […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Canada boosts 2019-20 wheat production estimate

By GFM Network News August 21, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canadian wheat production in 2019-20 is forecast to come in at 500,000 tonnes above an earlier forecast, according to updated supply/demand tables released Wednesday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Wheat ending stocks were also raised in the report, while adjustments to the canola tables led a slight reduction to the still record-large carryout […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Huge increase predicted in canola ending stocks

By GFM Network News May 21, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canadian canola carryout stocks are forecast to rise to a record 5.3 million tonnes by the end of the 2019-20 marketing year, more than doubling the previous five-year average, according to updated estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division. While the department, in its estimates, expects total canola production to decline […] Read more

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s map of deferral-designated areas for the 2018 tax year as of Oct. 25, 2018. (Agr.gc.ca)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Weather

Unusual third assessment run for livestock tax deferrals

By GFM Network News January 29, 2019

In an unusual move, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has undertaken a third assessment for the federal livestock tax deferral. “Federal officials are currently finalizing the analysis to identify whether any additional regions have met the criteria for the livestock tax deferral,” AAFC spokesperson James Watson said. Under the deferral plan, cattle producers affected by severe […] Read more

Canola

Agriculture Canada ups canola carryout forecast sharply

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News October 22, 2018

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Canadian canola carryout stocks at the end of the current marketing year (2018/19) will be considerably larger than an earlier estimate, according to updated supply/demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released on Oct. 19, 2018. Agriculture Canada’s market analysis branch forecast canola ending stocks for 2018/19 at 2.500 million […] Read more

University of Alberta researcher Victor Manoli tours International Clubroot Workshop delegates through his research work at Alberta’s Crop  Diversification Centre North. Manoli has infected these plants with clubroot spores to enable future study.

Canola, Features

No silver bullet for international disease

Scientists from around the globe met in Edmonton to discuss the latest on clubroot

By Leeann Minogue October 5, 2018

The world’s top canola researchers and agronomists met in Edmonton in early August to talk about their work on the pathogen that’s lowering canola yields throughout Alberta and spreading to the rest of the Prairies. While researchers at the International Clubroot Workshop discussed the scientific research underway, farmer delegates were disappointed to hear there is […] Read more

Pulse prices are likely to come under pressure due to large existing supplies. Photo: Thinkstock

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse prices feel pressure from rising ending stocks

By GFM Network News July 31, 2018

CNS Canada – Increasing pulse ending stocks are going to continue to play into pulse crop prices in Canada, according to the latest update from Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) ag economics team. “We’re still expected to see ending stocks increasing. So as we continue to see that ending stocks increase, that stock-to-use-ratio that we’d see […] Read more

Crops

More canola, wheat acres expected at pulses’ expense

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News January 26, 2018

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers will seed more wheat and canola in 2018 at the expense of pulse crops, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s latest supply/demand estimates that include their first projections for the upcoming 2018-19 crop year. Total canola acres in 2018 are forecast at 24 million by the government agency, which would […] Read more

Crops, Livestock

Agriculture contributed C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News November 10, 2017

Winnipeg | CNS – A new report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Friday has pegged agriculture as contributing C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016, which accounted 6.7 per cent of the country’s total GDP. The annual report entitled An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and AgriFood System, provides a summary of the economic […] Read more

Canada to boost Indonesia exports to diversify non-U.S. trade, says minister

U.S. livestock: Live cattle drop as beef prices, packer margins erode

CBOT Weekly: Soybean, wheat futures come down

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