Insights and Stories on Canola

Jan. 14, 2015 at 8:05 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were mixed during the week ended Wednesday, with the most active front months posting gains and losses in the more deferred positions. While there is still more room to the upside, weakness in CBOT soybeans could spill over to pull the Canadian […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jan. 9, 2015 at 6:52 pm CST

Seed and equipment are now under federal quarantine at a Manitoba farm where a crop pathogen never before seen in Canada made its first-ever appearance in North American canola. Without giving the farm’s specific or general location, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday it’s placed a quarantine order on […]

By Staff

Jan. 6, 2015 at 8:18 pm CST

A Manitoba canola field has been confirmed as the first in North America with Verticillium wilt, a fungal disease well known to northern Europe’s canola and vegetable growers. With no seed treatments or foliar fungicides yet registered against it — and with no resistant canola varieties available — the disease, […]

By Staff

Jan. 6, 2015 at 5:34 pm CST

CNS Canada — Canola crush margins in Western Canada may be well off the highs seen last winter but are still very profitable for domestic processors as they hover around $100 per tonne above the futures. Crush margins provide an indication of the profitability of the product values relative to […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 17, 2014 at 6:55 pm CST

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, despite losses seen in the Chicago soybean market, which normally drives canola. “It’s good sturdy firmness, but I don’t know if there’s anything special behind it,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg. […]

By Terryn Shiells