Insights and Stories on Canola

Manitoba nets average crops in 2022 after wet spring

Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:59 am CDT

MarketsFarm – Wet spring conditions delayed seeding operations across much of Manitoba to start the 2022 growing season, but warm summer conditions allowed for good development with yields for most crops showing a marked improvement over the drought-stricken 2021 harvest, according to the final crop report of the season from […]

ICE weekly outlook: Sideways canola market due for a move

Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

AAFC tweaks some numbers as canola, pulses remain unchanged

Oct. 24, 2022 at 3:20 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: Canola sees choppy, sideways month-end trade

Oct. 19, 2022 at 5:23 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie-wide canola variety trial program ending

Oct. 19, 2022 at 5:17 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

ICE weekly outlook: Canola’s wide crush margins supportive

Oct. 12, 2022 at 5:12 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts backed away from nearby highs during the week ended Wednesday, but historically wide crush margins should keep the market well supported going forward. “The crush margins are unsustainably high,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg, pointing to margins that currently work out […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Weekly Canadian canola exports climb higher

Oct. 7, 2022 at 3:49 pm CDT

MarketsFarm – An influx of freshly harvested supplies saw weekly Canadian canola exports hit their highest level in nearly two years at the end of September 2022, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission report. The 300,500 tonnes of canola exported during the week ended Oct. 2 marked the first […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Rising canola prices hit a one-day thud

Oct. 5, 2022 at 5:04 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola rose like Icarus over the past few weeks, but just like that Greek mythological figure, it flew too high, only to come back down to Earth. After the November canola contract rose in seven of its last eight sessions — in the middle of harvest, […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Alberta RCMP spike grain truck to recover canola

Oct. 5, 2022 at 11:32 am CDT

RCMP in central Alberta say they’ve recovered a “significant amount” of canola and arrested and charged two people after a grain truck suspected in an alleged canola theft was halted by a spike belt. In a release Tuesday, RCMP at Bashaw — about 80 km northeast of Red Deer, in […]

By Dave Bedard

ICE weekly outlook: Canola shouldn’t fall hard

Sep. 28, 2022 at 4:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As Malaysian palm oil futures tumbled to 20-year lows during the week of Sept. 26, they have put a lot of pressure on canola prices, analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary said. However, he said, the Canadian dollar has been the backstop that kept the oilseed […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm