Insights and Stories on Canola

Canola variety’s clubroot claim taken with caution

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:26 pm CST

A new variety of canola with “intermediate” resistance to a new type of clubroot may be cause for optimism, but Alberta’s canola grower group says farmers need to know more before they buy. The Alberta Canola Producers Commission (ACPC) warned Monday that growers will need more specifics about claims that […]

Manitoba canola pest lab backed for equipment, research

Jan. 30, 2015 at 8:37 pm CST

By Staff

Wild pollinators earning their keep on the farm

Jan. 30, 2015 at 11:49 am CST

By Alexis Kienlen

ICE weekly outlook: Canola overdue for a setback

Jan. 28, 2015 at 4:20 pm CST

By Terryn Shiells

Canada’s canola crush pace hits six-month high

Jan. 23, 2015 at 6:07 pm CST

By Terryn Shiells

ICE weekly outlook: Canola spikes as loonie falls

Jan. 21, 2015 at 5:18 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts finished higher for the week ended Wednesday, tracking the U.S. soy complex for much of the period but ultimately shooting higher due to the Canadian dollar’s sudden free-fall. The weaker currency helped improve domestic crush margins and also made canola more attractive […]

By Dave Sims

ICE weekly: Canola strength may be limited

Jan. 14, 2015 at 8:05 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were mixed during the week ended Wednesday, with the most active front months posting gains and losses in the more deferred positions. While there is still more room to the upside, weakness in CBOT soybeans could spill over to pull the Canadian […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canola cash market lagging strength in ICE futures

Jan. 13, 2015 at 4:21 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures have strengthened recently, but the western Canadian cash market for canola hasn’t followed along. Farmers “keep telling me that the futures go up, but the basis isn’t keeping pace,” said Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion Securities. Some locations, he added, have widened […]

By Terryn Shiells

Seed, equipment quarantined at wilt-stricken Man. farm

Jan. 9, 2015 at 6:52 pm CST

Seed and equipment are now under federal quarantine at a Manitoba farm where a crop pathogen never before seen in Canada made its first-ever appearance in North American canola. Without giving the farm’s specific or general location, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday it’s placed a quarantine order on […]

By Staff

ICE weekly outlook: Weak loonie to underpin canola futures

Jan. 7, 2015 at 3:15 pm CST

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market was stronger during the week ended Wednesday, taking some direction from the rally seen in Chicago soybean futures. Soybeans gained about US30 cents per bushel during the week, but canola was lagging to the upside as traders bet the U.S. rally […]

By Terryn Shiells