Insights and Stories on Canola

ICE weekly outlook: Canola headed down, looking for spark

Jun. 21, 2017 at 5:10 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were up and down during the week ended Wednesday, with the bias turning lower as losses in outside markets weighed on values. Canola lost $10 in two days, with a slide in soyoil and crude oil futures behind some of the spillover […]

ICE weekly outlook: Canola looks to stay below $500

Jun. 14, 2017 at 7:27 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Syngenta exits canola seed business

Jun. 13, 2017 at 1:12 pm CDT

By Staff

ICE weekly outlook: Uncertainty to underpin canola in short term

Jun. 7, 2017 at 6:45 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Visible canola stocks tightest in nearly three years

Jun. 2, 2017 at 5:55 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Diagnosing herbicide injury

Jun. 2, 2017 at 9:40 am CDT

When it comes to diagnosing potential herbicide injury, record keeping is vital, say Canola Council of Canada agronomists. “With soil residual herbicides, herbicide history is really important,” says Ian Epp, agronomy specialist with the Council for northwestern Saskatchewan. Because soil residual herbicides are often applied the previous year, good record […]

By Lisa Guenther

ICE weekly outlook: More losses likely for bearish canola

May. 31, 2017 at 5:32 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted large losses during the week ended Wednesday, and could be headed even lower, as bearish technicals and weakness in global economic markets outweigh supportive fundamentals. “We’re going into a seasonally slower demand period,” said Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications. A downgrade […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Conagra to sell Wesson oil brand to Smucker

May. 30, 2017 at 2:26 pm CDT

Reuters — Packaged food maker Conagra Brands said on Tuesday it would sell its Wesson cooking oil brand to Folgers coffee maker J.M. Smucker Co. for about US$285 million. Conagra will continue to manufacture products sold under the Wesson brand for up to one year following the close, after which […]

By Reuters

ICE weekly outlook: Weather issues, tight stocks lift canola

May. 24, 2017 at 3:07 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– The ICE Futures Canada canola market lost ground during the week ended Wednesday, pushed down by losses in the U.S. soy complex. A corruption scandal in Brazil sparked a steep selloff in soybeans during last Thursday’s session, which affected oilseeds around the world, including canola. Canola’s dominant […]

By Dave Sims

Take time to judge frost damage on canola

May. 19, 2017 at 7:40 pm CDT

After temperatures Thursday dropped as low as -5 C in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, growers who’ve already seeded may be wondering whether emerging canola plants have survived. It’s best not to write off those seedlings right away, according to the Canola Council of Canada in a Canola Watch newsletter […]

By Staff