Insights and Stories on Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada

AAFC lowers canola export forecast

Nov. 22, 2021 at 7:15 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian canola exports during the 2021-22 marketing year are forecast to be smaller than earlier projections, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) reported late Friday. Domestic usage, however, was raised in the report, keeping ending stocks of the crop steady with the October forecast. Total Canadian canola exports in […]

Ag department lowers crop production, export estimates

Aug. 26, 2021 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Hot, dry weather creates ‘significant uncertainty,’ AAFC says

Jul. 20, 2021 at 5:22 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canola stocks to tighten below a million tonnes, AAFC says

Feb. 17, 2021 at 5:05 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feds predict three per cent increase in canola acres

Jan. 26, 2021 at 3:15 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Crop stocks forecasts mostly unchanged in AAFC supply/demand report

Nov. 21, 2020 at 3:42 am CST

MarketsFarm — Updated crop supply/demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Friday, included only minor changes from the previous month. Larger adjustments are expected after Statistics Canada releases its final production numbers for the year on Dec. 3. Canola and all-wheat ending stocks for the 2020-21 marketing year were […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada’s wheat ending stocks projections raised

Oct. 23, 2020 at 7:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian wheat ending stocks for the current 2020-21 marketing year are forecast to be larger than earlier expectations, according updated supply/demand estimates Thursday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. All-wheat ending stocks for 2020-21 are now forecast at 6.3 million tonnes, which compares with the September estimate of 5.9 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Little change seen in June’s crop supply/demand tables

Jun. 23, 2020 at 7:58 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Supply/demand estimates for Canada’s major crops saw little change in updated tables released Tuesday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Acreage estimates from Statistics Canada are due out June 30, and should lead to more sizeable adjustments in subsequent reports. Canola ending stocks were left unchanged at 2.6 million […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

AAFC tightens canola stocks projections

May. 24, 2020 at 4:58 am CDT

Corrected, May 25 — MarketsFarm — Canadian canola ending stocks for both the current marketing year and the upcoming 2020-21 season will be tighter than earlier forecasts, according to updated supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Friday. The latest data take into account acreage estimates released by Statistics […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Farmer walks toward an air seeder with a blue sky above.

CFA seeks $2.6 billion in support for producers

May. 1, 2020 at 1:39 pm CDT

Ottawa — Canada’s agriculture industry is seeking an initial $2.6 billion in COVID-19-related emergency relief funding from the federal government. Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) officials put in the ask to the federal government on Thursday. According to second vice-president Chris van den Heuvel, federal officials asked the CFA “to […]

By D.C. Fraser

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