Insights and Stories on Canola

Monsanto sweetens offer for Syngenta

Aug. 24, 2015 at 4:03 pm CDT

New York/Chicago | Reuters — U.S.-based Monsanto sweetened its offer to buy Switzerland’s Syngenta, valuing the company at around US$47 billion as it tries to lure the Swiss firm to the negotiating table, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. Monsanto, which wants to combine its world-leading seeds […]

StatsCan production estimates ‘too low’ for canola, wheat

Aug. 21, 2015 at 10:02 am CDT

By Terryn Shiells

ICE weekly outlook: Further weakness in store for canola

Aug. 20, 2015 at 11:15 am CDT

By Terryn Shiells

Scientists seek review of glyphosate, allege ‘flawed’ regulations

Aug. 19, 2015 at 8:01 pm CDT

By Carey Gillam

ICE weekly outlook: Canola drop may spur fresh demand

Aug. 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Over-the-border canola crusher gets new owner

Aug. 7, 2015 at 7:55 pm CDT

A major canola crush plant that faced an unclear future just south of the Canada/U.S. border has a new owner in one of the States’ top agribusinesses. Ag co-operative CHS Inc. last week sealed its deal to buy Northstar Agri Industries at Hallock, Minnesota, about 40 km southeast of Manitoba’s main U.S. border […]

By Staff

Measuring your harvest loss is the first step to managing it

Aug. 6, 2015 at 3:42 pm CDT

In a drought year like this one, when every bushel counts, the last thing a producer wants to do is to leave grain on the ground. But harvest loss — to the tune of up to five bushels an acre — is a costly problem for growers across the Prairies. […]

By Jennifer Blair

Loan called on Legumex’s U.S. canola crusher

Aug. 5, 2015 at 6:27 pm CDT

Prairie special crop processor Legumex Walker is weighing its options after major lenders to the company’s U.S. canola crushing arm called their loan. Pacific Coast Canola, a cold-press canola crushing operation at Warden, Wash., about 160 km southwest of Spokane, is 84 per cent owned by TSX-traded, Winnipeg-based Legumex, and 16 […]

By Staff

ICE weekly outlook: Canola rises ahead of USDA report

Aug. 5, 2015 at 4:35 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as traders began to position themselves in anticipation of a U.S. report due out Aug. 12. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report “is certainly a factor” in the […]

By Dave Sims

More downside possible for canola

Jul. 29, 2015 at 3:54 pm CDT

Commodity News Service Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved sharply lower during the week ended July 29, and more downside is possible for the market in coming weeks. “I think we’re going into a period where we’re going to make some pre-harvest lows here,” said Jerry Klassen, manager […]

By Terryn Shiells