Crops & Crop Production Guide

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market stabilizing, but for how long?

Domestic crushers running at full capacity but export demand lacking

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute ICE Futures canola contracts continued to show some modest strength during the week ended Jan. 24, as the market stabilized above the lows hit earlier in the month. However, whether the uptrend continues or canola retreats to fresh lows remains to be seen.

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Potatoes

Canadian potato output rises in 2023

Alberta vaults to first place in provincial potato production

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 24, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes At 32.063 million hundredweight of potatoes this year, Alberta vaulted from third to first place as it improved on the previous year’s crop of 26.813 million. Manitoba moved into second spot from third with its harvest of 29.760 million cwt. following last year’s 26.139 million. Prince Edward Island saw its output reduced in 2023 to 25.813 million cwt. from 27.789 million. In 2023, the trio combined for 68 per cent of Canada’s total potato harvest of 128,801 million cwt.

Crops, Markets

Only minor acreage shifts expected for most Canadian crops in 2024

Major pulse crop acres expected to rise; canola, wheat expected to dip slightly

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Early planting estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada called for only minor adjustments to most major crops grown in the country in 2024, with reductions in wheat, canola and barley acres, and increases in oats and pulses.

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC forecasts larger dry pea, lentil crops

Dry pea prices have seen gains over the week; lentils steady to higher

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 23, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada forecasted increases in the production of dry peas and lentils for the 2024/25 crop year compared to those in 2023/24. AAFC issued its first supply and demand report for the calendar year on Jan. 22, which included the department’s preliminary estimates for the coming crop year. The data was not based on farmer surveys or satellite models.

Crops, Markets

Early signs point to increased crop production in 2024/25: AAFC

Rotation, moisture, expected prices, costs among main factors expected in seeding decisions

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 22, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes A return to trend yields should see an increase in production for most of the major crops grown in Canada in the upcoming 2024/25 (Aug/Jul) marketing year, according to the first outlook for the season from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Jan. 22.

Crops, Markets

Western Canadian feed market cold, but quiet

General trend in barley pricing flat to lower

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 18, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Extreme cold temperatures in Western Canada have done little to move the needle on feed grain markets as corn continues to come up from the United States and end users appear well covered for the time being.

Crops, General

China’s embrace of GMO crops gains momentum with new import, planting approvals

GMO corn, soybeans, cotton recently approved for domestic production in China

By Mei Mei Chu, Reuters January 18, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes China on Thursday approved additional varieties of genetically modified soybeans and corn for import and production while expanding their planting areas nationwide, as part of a drive to improve food security and reduce imports.

Crops

Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

Losing battle with weeds adds pressures to farmers already stressed by inflation, extreme weather

By Reuters, Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek January 16, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer BAYGn.DE and Corteva CTVA.N can develop new ones to fight them.

Seed potatoes loaded for planting. (File photo by Ralph Pearce)

Crops, General

Feds ask for feedback on potato wart plans

The documents will be used in a new national national management plan

By Geralyn Wichers January 15, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is asking for feedback on several guidance documents and recommendations related to developing a new national potato wart plan, it said Friday.

Crops, Markets

Prairie wheat weekly outlook: Narrow price movements for wheat, durum

The Canadian dollar lost three tenths over the week

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 12, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wheat prices across the Canadian Prairies were narrowly mixed for Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat and Canada Prairie Red Spring Wheat, while those for Canadian Western Amber Durum eased back by small amounts.

Daily Network News

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

Crops

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market stabilizing, but for how long?

Canadian potato output rises in 2023

Only minor acreage shifts expected for most Canadian crops in 2024

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC forecasts larger dry pea, lentil crops

Early signs point to increased crop production in 2024/25: AAFC

Western Canadian feed market cold, but quiet

China’s embrace of GMO crops gains momentum with new import, planting approvals

Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

Feds ask for feedback on potato wart plans

Prairie wheat weekly outlook: Narrow price movements for wheat, durum

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