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Barley, Canola, Crops, Markets, Oats, Peas, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

StatsCan comes in at low end of expectations for canola

By GFM Network News October 2, 2015

CNS Canada — Despite an upward revision of nearly a million tonnes in Statistics Canada’s latest report, most analysts expect canola production will keep climbing further. StatsCan on Friday morning released its updated grain/oilseed production estimates, with data collected through surveys taken between Sept. 3 and 13. Canola production numbers came in at 14.3 million […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Crops, Markets, Oats, Peas, Spring Wheat

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

By GFM Network News September 30, 2015

CNS Canada — Yields are generally beating earlier expectations as the harvest progresses across Western Canada, which should lead to upward revisions to canola and wheat when Statistics Canada releases its latest production survey results Friday. However, those numbers still may be underreported, and further revisions are expected in subsequent reports. “As the harvest is […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Prices slide on China worries, harvest progress

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News September 28, 2015

Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures slid Monday, pressured by a broad sell-off in commodity and equity markets and progress by U.S. farmers in harvesting crops. Soybeans tumbled more than one per cent, while Chicago wheat slipped off its earlier one-month high. Corn also declined. “This will be one of the biggest weeks in […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

ICE weekly outlook: Canola looking overpriced

By GFM Network News September 23, 2015

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower in sympathy with CBOT soybeans during the week ended Wednesday, and could have more room to the downside as the Canadian oilseed remains overpriced compared to its U.S. counterpart. The canola premium compared to soybeans is the same now as earlier in the summer, when […] Read more

Crops, Markets

StatsCan raises wheat, canola estimates with new model

By GFM Network News September 17, 2015

CNS Canada — Wheat and canola production are expected to be higher than in previous estimates, but still lower than in 2014, according to a new Statistics Canada model for field crop production estimates. The model-based report, released Thursday, pegs this year’s spring wheat production at 18.4 million tonnes, higher than previously forecast in the […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola weak, but finding support

By GFM Network News September 9, 2015

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted losses in most months during the week ended Wednesday, though the market uncovered some support to the downside and finds itself well off its nearby lows. The larger-than-expected old-crop stocks uncovered by Statistics Canada in its September 3 report remain a bearish influence overhanging the market. […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Sheep/Goats

Cattle herd still shrinking in StatsCan estimates

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 21, 2015

The size of Canada’s cattle herd is still in decline and almost a quarter smaller than its peak in 2005, Statistics Canada reports. The federal statistics agency on Thursday released estimates showing the herd at 13 million cattle on farms on July 1 this year, down 2.1 per cent from the same date in 2014. […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Weather

StatsCan production estimates ‘too low’ for canola, wheat

By GFM Network News August 21, 2015

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada released its first survey-based production estimates for the 2015-16 crop year Friday morning, with canola and wheat figures coming in at the lower end of expectations. But the grain trade is shrugging off the report, as it believes final production numbers for most crops will be larger than what Statistics […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Further weakness in store for canola

By GFM Network News August 20, 2015

CNS Canada –– The ICE Futures Canada canola market moved lower during the week ended Wednesday, breaking below the key support level of C$480 per tonne in the November contract. With the technical bias pointed lower, further weakness is expected to be in store for the commodity. “I think the ideas in the trade are […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade expects mostly smaller crops in StatsCan report

By GFM Network News August 20, 2015

CNS Canada –– Statistics Canada will release its first survey-based Canadian crop production estimates for 2015-16 on Friday, and figures for most major crops are expected to be down compared to last year. Yields are likely to be all over the map as weather conditions varied vastly from region to region during the growing season. […] Read more

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