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Canola seed, oil and meal. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canada’s weekly canola crush tops 200,000 tonnes

By GFM Network News October 13, 2017

CNS Canada — Canadian canola crushers saw their second busiest week ever during the week ended Wednesday, according to the latest data from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association. The canola crush in the latest weekly reporting period came in at 204,820 tonnes, only slightly off the record of 208,268 tonnes hit in March. A total […] Read more

(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola crush margins half of year-ago level

By GFM Network News October 2, 2017

CNS Canada — Canola crush margins in Western Canada are at about half the level as seen at the same point a year ago. As of Monday, the Canola Board Crush Margin calculated by ICE Futures Canada was about $56 above the November contract, which compares with levels a month ago of roughly $71. At […] Read more

The canola crop looked patchy. Some areas were coming up well, whereas others had only volunteer barley from the previous year.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Why isn’t this canola coming up?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the September 26, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Nathan Zilinski September 27, 2017

John owns a mixed grain and cattle operation near Pincher Creek, Alta. On May 2, 2016, he approached me about one of his canola fields, which he thought wasn’t germinating properly. “There are areas with no canola at all, just volunteer grain,” he said. “I think I have cutworm issues.” I drove out to John’s […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Prairie canola, soy now in Cargill ProPricing portfolio

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 22, 2017

Canola and soybean growers in Western Canada are now able to get in on Cargill’s ProPricing grain marketing program for the 2017-18 season. The U.S. agrifood company’s Winnipeg-based Canadian arm announced Sept. 14 it would offer its first-ever canola contract in its ProPricing portfolio, allowing eligible growers to hand off a portion of their canola […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Spring Wheat

Canadian canola deliveries reported near record

By GFM Network News September 16, 2017

CNS Canada — Canola remains the cash-flow king of the Prairies, with farmers making near record deliveries off the combine in the Canadian Grain Commission’s latest weekly report. A total of 627,000 tonnes of canola were delivered into the commercial system during the week ended Sept. 10, which would mark the third highest single week […] Read more

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

Crops, Markets

Year-ago Canadian canola crop revised higher

By GFM Network News August 31, 2017

CNS Canada — Canada’s 2016 canola crop has been revised higher in Statistics Canada’s first production estimates for 2017, released Thursday. StatsCan raised the 2016-17 production number from 18.4 million tonnes to 19.6 million, and pegged the 2017 crop at 18.2 million tonnes, which was somewhere in the middle of trade estimates. “I think there’s […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Dry down before straight cutting canola

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Chadrick Carley August 30, 2017

Straight-cutting your shatter-resistant canola variety this season? Timing is of the essence, and you need your field to be ready for harvest. That’s why you may want to consider using a true desiccant for more precise control over your harvest timing. However, if controlling perennial weeds is a big concern — or you have a […] Read more

(Alberta Farmer Express photo by Jennifer Blair)

Canola, Crops

Clubroot climbs up into Peace region

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 24, 2017

One of Canada’s northernmost farming areas has picked up a case of a disease well known to canola growers further south. Alberta Canola on Wednesday announced the Peace region has reported a case of clubroot in canola, in Big Lakes County, which surrounds much of Lesser Slave Lake in the region’s southeast. The disease has […] Read more

For all three setups, Chad Bown had the heater between the fan and the bin. This fan-heater-bin sequence is recommended for canola.

Canola, Crops

Turn up the heat on aeration fans when drying canola

Some growers grappling with a late harvest and high-moisture crops in 2016 added supplemental heaters to their aeration fans. This grower’s experience may inspire an upgrade to aeration setups for 2017

By Jay Whetter August 22, 2017

Things were a little off with Harvest 2016 and Chad Bown was desperate. The farmer from Ranfurly, Alta., was combining 14 per cent moisture canola in late November after a month or more of snow delays. Delivery locations were full, so on-farm storage was his only option. But aeration fans blowing cool air could not […] Read more

The plants in the field’s inner region were already starting to bloom, while the plants in the perimeter remained green and weren’t nearly as tall.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s holding up this canola’s blooming stage?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the May 16, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Samantha Sentes August 10, 2017

Kyle farms 2,000 acres of canola, oats and peas west of Yorkton, Sask. He called me the first week of July, last year, when he discovered part of his canola crop wasn’t flowering with the rest of the field. Kyle thought perhaps environmental factors, seeding issues or nutrient deficiencies could be stressing the crop. The […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean prices rise as China-U.S. truce assessed

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures post limit-down losses

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market rangebound

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