Increased hedge selling, as producers make room in their bins  for new crop supplies, was also responsible for some of the  downward price movement, traders said.
However, forecasts that suggest drought-like conditions in  US Midwest growing regions won’t see relief any time soon limited  the declines in canola, brokers said.
Softness in the value of the Canadian dollar was also  tempering the losses as it made the commodity less expensive to  foreign buyers.
As of 10:32 CDT about 5,000 canola contracts had traded.

Durum, barley and milling wheat were untraded and unchanged.
Prices in Canadian dollars per metric ton at 10:32  CDT: