Insights and Stories on Crops

Feb. 2, 2011 at 12:29 pm CST

ICE Canada canola futures were mostly higher Wednesday morning, seeing some follow-through buying on Tuesday’s firmer close. Calls for a higher start to the North American session for the CBOT soy complex provided some spill-over support for canola, according to traders. Malaysian palm oil was also stronger in overnight trade, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 1, 2011 at 10:37 pm CST

With wheat showing strong returns across Western Canada, it appears producers are showing more interest in wheat than barley “Wheat is garnering a significant portion of the acre increase, barley a little less so at the moment,” said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis with the Canadian Wheat […]

By Brent Harder

Jan. 31, 2011 at 5:53 pm CST

The steadying of canola futures prices on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform in Winnipeg has stabilized canola basis levels. Mike Jubinville of Pro Farmer Canada in Winnipeg said basis levels are fairly decent at the moment, thanks to a solid amount of product in the commercial pipeline. “We currently […]

By Brent Harder

Jan. 30, 2011 at 11:35 pm CST

A Regina company making biodiesel from canola has connected with a Chinese agrifood firm to consider even more canola crushing capacity on the Prairies. Clean Power Concepts, which through its General Bio Energy arm runs a canola crush plant and biodiesel refinery in east-central Regina, on Friday announced a memo […]

Jan. 30, 2011 at 8:53 pm CST

Saskatchewan farmers and ranchers under age 40 can now get more provincial funding for the use of farm-related consulting services and training. The provincial and federal governments on Thursday said they would now pay up to 90 per cent of the costs for business consulting services, farm-related education and training […]