Insights and Stories on Canola

Sep. 19, 2025 at 10:11 am CDT

Chinese state trading firm COFCO has bought up to nine 60,000-metric-ton cargoes of Australian canola, three trade sources told Reuters, after Beijing last month imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of the oilseed from traditional supplier Canada.

By Ella Cao, Naveen Thukral, Peter Hobson, Reuters

Sep. 17, 2025 at 3:50 pm CDT

Expect canola futures to fall back in the coming months, said analyst Jerry Klassen of Resilient Capital in Winnipeg. Klassen pointed to the Statistics Canada production update and China as two reasons for the coming declines.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Sep. 17, 2025 at 11:07 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – An extremely high resistance to a major fungicide, and adaptation to another, are the warning flags raised for canola growers by a report on a major disease’s sensitivity to a handful of fungicides used across the Prairie provinces. First, the good news: overall insensitivity of sclerotinia sclerotiorum […]

By Jeff Melchior

Sep. 17, 2025 at 9:02 am CDT

Canadian grain and oilseed production in 2025/26 was likely larger than earlier expectations, as warm temperatures and increased precipitation across the Prairies in August helped crop development, according to updated estimates from Statistics Canada released Sept. 17.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 15, 2025 at 2:21 pm CDT

Speculative fund traders have moved to a net short position in canola futures for the first time in five months, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

By Phil Franz-Warkentin