Insights and Stories on 2020

Ag ministers withdraw AgriStability reference margin limit

Mar. 25, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

In a move expected to provide $95 million in additional farm support per year, Canada’s ag ministers have agreed to remove the reference margin limit from the AgriStability farm income stabilization program. “That’s it! The ‘reference margin limit’ of the #AgriStability program is over! And it will be retroactive to […]

Port of Thunder Bay wraps up 21st-century-best year

Jan. 14, 2021 at 12:37 am CST

By MarketsFarm Team

Grain Farmers of Ontario to wind down wheat pool

Dec. 1, 2020 at 3:59 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

StatsCan predicts more corn, less soy in 2020 harvest

Aug. 31, 2020 at 7:09 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Yield, production increases expected from USDA

Aug. 10, 2020 at 3:53 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: More acres sought for 2020

Feb. 5, 2020 at 10:07 am CST

MarketsFarm — Planting intentions for red and green lentils and other pulses have been looking good for 2020 — but that might change somewhat because prices have slipped a little, said Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. Discussing pulse crops at a farm show last month in Saskatoon, Mosnaim […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

Jan. 24, 2020 at 1:41 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin