Insights and Stories on Canola

Canada takes first step at WTO to challenge China’s canola ban

Sep. 6, 2019 at 7:05 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada, locked in a major dispute with Beijing, is taking the first formal step at the World Trade Organization to challenge China’s decision to block Canadian canola exports, Trade Minister Jim Carr said Friday. China, angry at Canada’s detention of a top Huawei Technologies executive last […]

Fund traders add to net short positions in canola, corn

Sep. 6, 2019 at 6:25 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

Sep. 5, 2019 at 3:27 am CDT

By David Ljunggren

ICE weekly outlook: Count on canola remaining rangebound

Sep. 4, 2019 at 8:25 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Short position steady in canola, growing in corn

Sep. 3, 2019 at 3:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Rangebound canola looks for bounce

Aug. 28, 2019 at 8:05 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts moved lower during the week ended Wednesday but remain rangebound overall, as market participants continued to await a clearer picture on the size of the 2019 crop. “The overall grain and oilseed complex still feels heavily weighted, but I’m hoping for at least a […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Bearish bets decline in canola

Aug. 26, 2019 at 1:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While speculators were increasing bearish bets for Chicago soybeans and corn during the week ended Tuesday, canola traders were taking back some of their large net short positions. According to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the net managed […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

Aug. 22, 2019 at 2:48 pm CDT

Winnipeg/Paris | Reuters — Crop-scorching drought in Europe is providing Canadian canola farmers a timely new opportunity to move supplies that have piled up since China stopped buying this year. Rising European sales are taking some of the sting out of losing the Chinese market for Canadian farmers, although ICE […]

By Gus Trompiz Rod Nickel

ICE weekly outlook: Canola trade’s eyes on StatsCan report

Aug. 21, 2019 at 7:16 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Although Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released its production forecast Wednesday, markets are focused on next week’s production report from Statistics Canada — a survey-based report which should provide a clearer picture of what’s to come. AAFC’s August report kept the canola production estimate at July’s 18.575 million […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Canada boosts 2019-20 wheat production estimate

Aug. 21, 2019 at 11:49 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian wheat production in 2019-20 is forecast to come in at 500,000 tonnes above an earlier forecast, according to updated supply/demand tables released Wednesday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Wheat ending stocks were also raised in the report, while adjustments to the canola tables led a slight reduction […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin