Insights and Stories on Canola

Jun. 15, 2016 at 6:07 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola suffered small losses during the week ended Wednesday, with both the July and November contracts chopping around the $520 per tonne mark. Losses in the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soy complex weighed on canola. However, it lagged the U.S. market while receiving […]

By Dave Sims

Jun. 8, 2016 at 4:19 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday and may have more room to the upside, provided the market continues to see a boost from the U.S. soy complex. “Right now, this market does not want to go down,” said senior analyst Wayne […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 1, 2016 at 7:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola markets were mixed in the week ended Wednesday, and as grower interest in selling ramps up, prices are likely to edge down. “Canola has been pushed up to some moderately high levels, and it’s been justified in being up there,” said Ken Ball […]

By Jade Markus

May. 31, 2016 at 6:52 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Suggestions that canola shipments to China could be in jeopardy because of concerns over herbicide-resistant weeds are being refuted by the Canola Council of Canada. Great Northern Growers Inc., an agriculture service business in Saskatoon that sells herbicides and other products, said it has heard China doesn’t […]

By Dave Sims

May. 27, 2016 at 4:21 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canola crush margins have improved considerably over the past few weeks, to sit at some of their best levels of the past year. Crush margins provide an indication of the profitability of the product values relative to the seed cost when processing canola, with exchange rates also […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin