Insights and Stories of Phil Franz-Warkentin

Declining canola crush margins still strong overall

Nov. 19, 2010 at 4:18 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — Canola crush margins have bounced around a lot over the past few weeks, but are well off their recent highs as sharp declines in the product values have cut into the margins. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybeans “go up and down, and we don’t […]

No end seen for canola uptrend

Nov. 4, 2010 at 10:30 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Hemp crop sees good yields

Oct. 22, 2010 at 4:59 pm CDT

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Canola cash bids likely topping out

Oct. 21, 2010 at 6:43 pm CDT

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Manitoba corn crop looking good

Oct. 20, 2010 at 11:25 am CDT

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Man. sunflower harvest showing low yields

Oct. 20, 2010 at 12:25 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Sunflowers are starting to come off the field in southern Manitoba, with harvest operations estimated at 10 to 50 per cent complete and yields generally on the poor side, depending on the location. Prices for oilseed sunflowers have shown some improvement in recent weeks, but confectionary […]

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Record open interest seen at ICE Futures Canada

Oct. 14, 2010 at 4:20 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Open interest in the ICE Futures Canada market, including both futures and options for canola and the lightly traded western barley contracts, moved to new record highs over the past week and appears poised to continue to rise. Total open interest in the market reached 211,346 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canola exports busy off West Coast

Oct. 7, 2010 at 5:49 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– A large number of vessels currently loading, or waiting to load, canola at Canada’s West Coast is a sign of the solid demand for the commodity. That’s according to an export official who expected the pace would remain strong, but said a current backlog at the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Long Prairie harvest window forecast

Oct. 4, 2010 at 5:16 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The harvest window for western Canadian farmers bringing in the last of this year’s crops will remain open until at least mid-October and possibly longer according to meteorologist Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. in Kansas City. “I think we’ll be able to get through […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Large oat supplies in storage may limit prices

Oct. 1, 2010 at 10:31 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Large supplies of oats held in storage in the U.S. may limit the upside in the market, despite the quality concerns with Canada’s crop this year. The recent high prices were also causing end-users to ration some of their demand, and that demand may take awhile […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin