Crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute Data released by Statistics Canada on Jan. 29 showed the December crush of canola and soybeans came in higher than a year ago.
Crops
December canola crush pushes higher
Canola crush exceeds 1 million tonnes
Pulse Weekly: Supply and demand ‘sideways’ says broker
‘If prices move up, they move up big time, but they won’t drop overnight’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lentil prices on the Canadian Prairies were steady in late-January, which a broker noted is typical for this time of year. Marcos Mosnaim of Prairie IX said the forces of supply and demand are standing pat, leading to no price fluctuations.
Buenos Aires desk cuts Argentine corn, bumps up wheat
Crops affected differently by weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes As Argentina continues to face dry conditions, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Buenos Aires cut their estimate for the country's 2024/25 corn crop. Meanwhile the attaché bumped up their call on the Argentine wheat harvest, which was recently completed.
U.S. threatening Canada’s canola oil industry
Chinese used cooking oil another threat
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's canola oil industry is facing two threats from the United States, said Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Canadian Oilseed Processors Association.
Frigid weather likely damaged US winter wheat crop, meteorologist says
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frigid temperatures this week likely killed as much as 15 per cent of the winter wheat crop in parts of the U.S. Plains and Midwest, the Commodity Weather Group said on Friday, in an ominous sign for U.S. wheat production.
Prairie spring wheat rise with U.S. futures
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Jan. 23, as a rally in the United States futures provided support.
Researchers scramble to understand verticillium in Canada
Disease is a relative newcomer to Canada and has been the subject of little research globally
Reading Time: 2 minutes Justine Cornelson of BrettYoung Seeds says verticillium is one reason Manitoba saw disappointing canola yields last year. The disease needs to be the subject of more research, since little has been done to date.
Feed grain update: Barley steady as corn rises
Higher U.S. corn prices limiting imports
Reading Time: < 1 minute Feed barley prices in Western Canada were holding relatively steady in mid-January, despite rising corn prices south of the border.
Manitoba Ag Days: ‘Political manipulations’ hold back canola – analyst
Reading Time: 3 minutes If global politics, tariffs and uncertainty were magically removed from the market, canola prices in Canada would likely be $1.50 per bushel higher, says a veteran markets analyst.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola facing ‘extreme uncertainties’ says trader
Excluded from U.S. biofuel tax credits, facing tighter supplies
Reading Time: 2 minutes The path canola is to take as January turns to February has been marked by “extreme uncertainties,” explained broker Ken Ball of Ventum Financial in Winnipeg.
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