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File photo of a rapeseed field in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Honshu, Japan. (Nattya3714/iStock.Getty Images)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

USDA reports offer new oilseed insights from India, Japan

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its weekly Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) reports on Wednesday, including new information regarding oilseeds in India and Japan. Oilseed production in India is projected to increase by one per cent at 42.1 million tonnes in 2022-23, according to FAS New […] Read more
With his Väderstad Tempo L 24 planter, Edmund Rath from Rolla, B.C., says he gets around 90 per cent canola seed emergence.
Canola, Crops

260,000 canola seeds per acre, placed precisely

With the precision placement of a planter, Edmund Rath achieves 88 to 93 per cent canola seed emergence, a big improvement from the typical 50 to 60 per cent with his air seeder

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When asked for his canola seeding rate, Edmund Rath answers “260,000 seeds per acre.” This is not the usual answer. Five pounds per acre, give or take a pound, is the common response. “After May 15, I cut that down to 240,000,” he adds. Here’s a quick translation: With 43,560 square feet in an acre, […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

Australian canola production heading downward, but still sizeable

New second-biggest harvest expected, USDA predicts

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Despite canola production in Australia being set to drop 26 per cent in 2022-23, the country’s farmers are still projected to harvest the second largest crop, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s attaché in Canberra. In the attaché’s report, released Monday, canola production for the coming crop year was projected to be […] Read more
(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola exports turn tiny as Canada running out

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Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — There was a tremendous drop in canola exports from Canada during week 34 of the 2021-22 marketing year, according to the Canadian Grain Commission. The commission’s report issued Thursday showed a mere 800 tonnes of canola were shipped overseas. The week before, 128,300 tonnes were outbound. “We’re really getting close to running out,” […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery

Saskatchewan budget aims to spur ag investment

Potash, crude oil resource revenues help cut deficit

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Sweetening existing tax credits on big-ticket investments, and setting up a new Crown corporation to support Indigenous investors, are among the items expected to help encourage new value-added ag projects in Saskatchewan’s latest budget. Provincial Finance Minister Donna Harpauer on Wednesday released her 2022-23 budget with $17.6 billion in expenditures on $17.2 billion in revenues, […] Read more
ICE May 2022 canola (candlesticks, right column) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines) and NYMEX May 2022 WTI crude oil (grey line, left column). (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Strong canola market to ‘see both sides of rainbow’

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Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts climbed to their highest levels ever during the week ended Wednesday before running into some profit-taking resistance. Its general uptrend remains intact for the time being, but a downturn is also inevitable. The nearby May canola contract hit a session high of $1,177.80 per tonne on Wednesday, before backing […] Read more
CCA president Bob Lowe speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on March 21, 2022, calling for federal back-to-work legislation to end a work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Railway. (CPAC video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops, Markets

Ag industry groups seek legislated end to CP stoppage

Feed, fertilizer traffic already way behind, groups say

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Warning they don’t have time to wait on negotiation, representatives for cattle feeders, fertilizer producers and grain growers took to Parliament Hill on Monday to press for the federal government to instead legislate Canadian Pacific Railway’s engineers and conductors back to work. Traffic halted on CP lines just after midnight ET Sunday morning as the […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

AAFC warns of uncertainty in latest crop outlook

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Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The supply/demand balance sheets for Canada’s major crops were largely left unchanged in the latest outlook Friday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. While the March report only saw minor revisions, the government agency cautioned that “the economic outlook, for the world and Canadian grain markets, is particularly uncertain due to the Russian invasion […] Read more

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