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Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s ban on Canadian canola expands to Viterra

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Beijing/Ottawa | Reuters — China expanded its ban on Canadian canola seed imports on Tuesday to include shipments from Viterra, the latest development in a wider trade dispute between the two countries. Viterra is the second canola exporter to have its registration cancelled, after Beijing halted shipments from top exporter Richardson International earlier this month. […] Read more
Resistant to resistance?
Canola, Crops

Resistant to resistance?

If you don’t have clubroot, should you be planting clubroot-resistant canola?

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Should a farmer who regularly practises a one-in-four-year rotation of canola in an area without confirmed clubroot be growing clubroot-resistant (CR) cultivars of canola? This was a question I asked at a canola agronomy meeting last November. At that time, I was describing my own farm and I thought the answer would be straightforward, but I received conflicting responses. One canola company representative said […] Read more
Canola Council of Canada president Jim Everson says China’s block on Canadian canola has now expanded beyond just shipments from Richardson International. (Co-operator file photo by Allan Dawson)
Canola, Crops, Markets

China stops buying Canadian canola

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China has stopped buying any Canadian canola, says Canola Council of Canada president Jim Everson. “The Chinese are unwilling to purchase Canadian canola (from any company) at this time,” he said Thursday. “Trade that was executed earlier is continuing. New sales are what appears to be affected.” Earlier this month China blocked canola imports from […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

Fund short position climbs in canola

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MarketsFarm — Fund traders were active in the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Tuesday, adding to their large net short position, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the latest report, managed money and other reportable speculators increased their net […] Read more
Joe had been walking his early-planted corn fields and noticed purpling of the leaves at the three-leaf stage across the entire field.
Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Purple corn leaves pose a puzzling problem

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 12, 2019 issue of Grainews

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In late May of last year, I received a call from Joe, who owns a 1,500-acre mixed grain and dairy farm near Stonewall, Man. He said he’d been walking his early-planted corn fields and noticed purpling of the leaves at the three-leaf stage across the entire field. I drove out to Joe’s farm and immediately […] Read more
Soybeans at market. (Lnzyx/iStock/Getty Images)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China forecasts rising soy imports to make up for less canola

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Beijing | Reuters — China on Friday raised its forecast for soybean imports during the 2018-19 crop year to 85 million tonnes, up from 83.65 million in last month’s outlook, after the country’s customs agency suspended some imports of rival oilseed canola. China’s ministry of agriculture and rural affairs said in its monthly forecast on […] Read more

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