Insights and Stories on Canola

Canola crush margins still solid near $100

Mar. 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform have traded within a wide range over the past month, but crush margins continue to hover around the $100 mark. Crush margins provide an indication of the profitability of the product values relative to the seed cost when processing […]

North Dakota canola acreage set to increase

Mar. 5, 2015 at 6:54 pm CST

By Terryn Shiells

ICE weekly outlook: Canola testing major support

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:57 pm CST

By Dave Sims

Trade panel rejects Que. appeal on edible oil products

Feb. 25, 2015 at 7:46 pm CST

By Staff

ICE weekly outlook: Canola runs into resistance

Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:19 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins

Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:10 pm CST

Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at […]

By Chris Prentice Rod Nickel

ICE weekly outlook: Canola reaching its upper range

Feb. 18, 2015 at 8:01 pm CST

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, taking some direction from advances seen in Chicago soybean futures. But the market seems to be moving into its upper range and could be vulnerable to a downward correction going forward, according to Ken […]

By Terryn Shiells

ICE weekly outlook: Canola hangs tough with loonie

Feb. 11, 2015 at 6:24 pm CST

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were rangebound for the week ended Wednesday, but managed to post slight gains overall as a weaker Canadian dollar supported values. “Weakness in the Canadian dollar is the underlying supportive factor,” said Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion Securities in Winnipeg. Funds are […]

By Dave Sims

ICE weekly outlook: Canola ‘reasonably balanced’

Feb. 4, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, but remain rangebound overall with offsetting market factors expected to keep values steady in the short term. “The market seems, at least temporarily, reasonably balanced,” said Jon Driedger of FarmLink Marketing Solutions. “It’s that window […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Against clubroot, ‘I’-rated canola sits between ‘R’ and ‘S’

Feb. 4, 2015 at 5:57 pm CST

A new canola variety billed with “intermediate” reaction against a new pathotype of clubroot is being placed in the zone between “resistant” and “susceptible.” Canterra Seeds, the Winnipeg firm marketing the new CS2000 hybrid variety, clarified its claim for the seed in a statement on a company blog Wednesday, granting many […]

By Staff