Insights and Stories on AAFC

Business risk management program reforms in development

Mar. 11, 2020 at 5:56 pm CDT

Recommendations are now being crafted for Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on how to improve business risk management (BRM) programs for farmers in Canada. It’s expected changes to BRM programs will be announced in July when Bibeau and her provincial counterparts meet in Guelph. The recommendations are coming after a study […]

USDA adjusts world rapeseed stocks estimates

Mar. 11, 2020 at 2:27 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Grain Commission’s chief announces retirement

Feb. 20, 2020 at 8:11 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

Chickpea market steady, waits for next wave of demand

Feb. 19, 2020 at 7:41 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Industry leaders weigh in on seed royalty review

Feb. 14, 2020 at 4:52 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Oat area poised to rise

Feb. 12, 2020 at 9:21 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Solid prices and growing demand — and risk aversion among growers — should see more oat acres seeded in Canada in 2020, with early signs pointing to the largest oat crop in more than a decade. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada predicted 2020 oat area at 3.93 million acres […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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

Prairie barley groups back new research funding arm

Jan. 13, 2020 at 8:43 pm CST

The three Prairie barley growers’ groups are taking a more “collaborative” approach to longer-term national and regional research work on barley breeding. SaskBarley, Alberta Barley and the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association on Monday launched what they’ve dubbed the Canadian Barley Research Coalition (CBRC), following a path similar to […]

By GFM Staff

AAFC lowers canola ending stocks forecast

Dec. 20, 2019 at 9:30 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian canola ending stocks will be much tighter than earlier thought, according to updated supply/demand tables which were released late Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and account for the latest production numbers from Statistics Canada. AAFC’s projected canola ending stocks for 2019-20 were lowered to 3.5 million […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Balance sheet tightening

Dec. 9, 2019 at 2:37 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian pea and lentil production failed to live up to earlier projections, according to the latest survey data from Statistics Canada. While both crops are still forecast to be above their year-ago levels, the tightening supply expectations should underpin prices. Canada’s 2019-20 lentil crop was pegged at 2.17 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin