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

Canola crush margins double year-ago level

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MarketsFarm — Canola crush margins have shown considerable improvement in recent weeks — a sign the commodity is looking cheap compared to its product values. As of Monday, the Canola Board Crush Margin calculated by ICE Futures U.S. was about $100 above the November contract — a figure up by $10 over the past month […] Read more
All of Fred’s canola seed was planted at a consistent three-quarter inch depth, so why the uneven emergence?
Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Spotty canola emergence baffling

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the October 15, 2019 issue of Grainews

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I received a call from Fred last May after he came across a problem while out scouting his canola fields. He’d observed some spotty emergence of canola seedlings in one of his fields and was wondering why emergence was so much better in the adjacent fields that had been planted around the same time. Fred, […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Canadian canola deliveries hit weekly record

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MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers made record deliveries of canola into the commercial pipeline during the second week of October, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission data. Wet weather, including heavy snow in some regions, continued to keep farmers off of their fields across much of Western Canada, but producers were actively delivering canola and […] Read more
ICE November 2019 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola values stay rangebound

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MarketsFarm — One canola trader wouldn’t go so far as to calling the canola market lifeless, but it has remained rangebound for most of the week. That’s mainly due to pressure from harvest activity, which has carried on at an impressive pace on the Canadian Prairies despite being mired with difficult weather conditions. “I’ve talked […] Read more
The USDA building in Washington, D.C. (Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images)
Canola, Crops, Soybeans

Most oilseed estimates down in USDA’s October outlook

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MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its monthly oil crops outlook on Tuesday featuring reductions in global rapeseed and sunflower production and U.S. soybeans. USDA estimated global rapeseed production at 68.6 million tonnes, a decline of one million, with the lion’s share of the losses in Canada. Canadian production for 2019-20 was […] Read more
BASF’s 2020 canola will come in different-sized bags, labelled A, B, C and D. All bags will contain at least 4.25 million seeds. “A” bags will hold the smallest seeds, and weigh 42.2 pounds. The largest seeds will be sold in “D”-labelled bags, and weigh 56.7 pounds. Recommended seeding rates vary from 4.2 pounds/acre of “A” seeds to 5.7 pounds/acre of “D” seeds.
Crops, Features

BASF talks hybrid wheat and canola revolutions

Big changes are ahead for wheat technology; buy your canola in new bag sizes

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Jonathan Sweat, BASF’s vice-president, business management agricultural solutions, made a trip to the Canadian Prairies this summer to visit farms and attend Ag in Motion, where he took time to talk to Grainews. After more than 20 years at BASF, Sweat is still enthusiastic about the company’s investment in research. “About 40 per cent of […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Funds hold steady in canola

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MarketsFarm — Fund traders in the U.S. were busy covering short positions and putting on fresh longs in the soybean and corn markets during the week ended Oct. 1. Meanwhile, the net fund short position in canola held relatively steady, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading […] Read more

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