Crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spring wheat cash prices varied across the Prairies for the week ended Nov. 25, while those for durum were slightly higher. Losses in the United States wheat complex weighed on prices north of the border, while support came from a weaker Canadian dollar.
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring prices vary as durum nudges up
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Pulse Weekly: Looking for trade deal to benefit Canadian growers
Reading Time: 2 minutes As trade talks between Canada and India are soon to restart, Pulse Canada said it’s looking for any deal arising out of those talks to be beneficial for Canadian pulse growers.
AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made only a handful of alterations for its November report on principal field crops. The only changes AAFC made were with all wheat and durum exports plus domestic use for all wheat and corn in the estimates released on Nov. 24. The report had been initially scheduled for Nov. 19, but AAFC said they chose to delay it until after the United States Department of Agriculture issued its November supply and demand estimates following the U.S. government shutdown.
USDA predicts more wheat in Australia, smaller crops elsewhere
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia will grow more wheat in 2025/26 than earlier expectations, but production will likely be down on the year in Turkey and Kazakhstan, according to several attaché reports released by the United States Department of Agriculture on Nov. 20, as it continues to catch up following the federal government shutdown.
Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian chickpeas saw stable prices and its largest crop in two decades.
Funds held large net short in canola before U.S. shutdown
Reading Time: < 1 minute Speculative fund traders were adding to a recently-established net short position in canola at the end of September, said the first Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since the end of the U.S. federal government shutdown.
IGC raises 2025/26 world wheat, corn crop forecasts
Reading Time: 2 minutes Global stocks of grain are set to increase during the 2025/26 season for the first time in four years, the International Grains Council said on Thursday as it raised its forecasts for both wheat and corn crops.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian canola futures are poised to slip back in the short term, although the oilseed could climb slowly higher in the long term, said Jamie Wilton, trader with R.J. O’Brien in Winnipeg, Man.
CBOT weekly: Soybeans watching export news
Reading Time: < 1 minute Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade climbed to their highest levels in a year-and-a-half on Nov. 18, as optimism over increasing sales to China provided support. However, more business will be needed to sustain the upward move, with traders uncertain whether the stated targets will be reached.
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