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Klassen: Feeder cattle market experiences thin trade

By Jerry Klassen, GFM Network News July 5, 2016

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were relatively unchanged from week-ago levels. Many auction barns are in holiday mode and the shortened holiday week further shrunk market activity. In any case, feedlot operations on both sides of the border are focused on selling fed cattle and assessing current financial damage rather than bringing in replacements. The […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canada’s canola, pulse acres rise at grains’ expense

By GFM Network News June 29, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers adjusted their acreage ideas to seed more canola and pulses at the expense of grains, according to the updated Statistics Canada field crop area report released June 29. The adjustments were largely in line with trade guesses — and attention in the markets is quickly turning back to weather conditions. […] Read more

Crops, Markets

More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

By GFM Network News June 24, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers likely seeded more canola and pulse acres than originally thought this spring, but less wheat, according to average trade estimates ahead of Statistics Canada’s next official survey results due out June 29. Poor returns per acre and frustrations over grading issues had some farmers backing away on wheat, said Jerry […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Room for additional downside in canola

By GFM Network News June 23, 2016

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower on the week, and the market’s declines are likely not finished yet, one analyst says. Canola lost $42.90 in the July contract and $35.60 in the November contract in the week ended Wednesday, as a rout of fund selling pressured the market. “I think we’ve […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

By GFM Network News June 10, 2016

CNS Canada –– Relatively soft feed grain prices over the past year mean producers of supply-managed commodities, such as milk and eggs, have also received lower prices for their products. Such is the interpretation of industry participants accounting for declines in the latest Farm Price Index data released by Statistics Canada. The livestock and animal […] Read more

Crops, Markets

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

By GFM Network News May 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian canola and wheat supplies are much tighter heading into the final months of the 2015-16 crop year than they were at the same point a year ago, according to Statistics Canada’s latest stocks report. StatsCan pegged the country’s canola stocks, as of March 31, at 7.49 million tonnes in its report […] Read more

Crops, Markets

StatsCan grain stocks data to confirm feed demand, production

By GFM Network News May 4, 2016

CNS Canada — Just how much barley did Canadian cattle eat over the past winter? Will there be any old-crop wheat left over this year? And how much canola was really grown in 2015? Answers to these questions and more will be closer to being found when Statistics Canada releases its latest stocks data on […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Oats

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

By GFM Network News April 26, 2016

CNS Canada — Lukewarm prices for oats, coupled with dry conditions in Alberta and soggy conditions in Manitoba, are crimping acreage this year. Generally known as one of the hardier crops around, oats haven’t been setting any record highs on price charts, resulting in a forecast of 11 per cent less acreage in Canada. “The […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

By GFM Network News April 22, 2016

CNS Canada –– Increased durum acres in Canada may limit the upside potential as far as prices are concerned, but smaller spring wheat plantings will also limit the downside, according to a durum trader. Statistics Canada on Thursday pegged intended durum acres at 6.12 million acres, which would be up from 5.82 million in 2015. […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Record-low summerfallow expected

By GFM Network News April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Changing farm practices and moving world markets over the years have seen shifts in the makeup of the crops grown in Canada — but the most noticeable change in the past three decades may be the amount of land seeded to nothing. Heading into the 2016 growing season, Canadian farmers say they […] Read more

GFM Network News

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ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

Tag Archives Statistics Canada

Klassen: Feeder cattle market experiences thin trade

Canada’s canola, pulse acres rise at grains’ expense

More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

ICE weekly outlook: Room for additional downside in canola

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

StatsCan grain stocks data to confirm feed demand, production

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

Record-low summerfallow expected

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