Insights and Stories on Canola

Funds remain short canola and soybeans

Jul. 15, 2019 at 5:33 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Fund traders continue to hold onto a large net short position in the canola market, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position came in Tuesday at 57,512,an increase of roughly 5,000 contracts […]

ICE weekly outlook: Not much faith in USDA’s WASDE

Jul. 10, 2019 at 7:26 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Fund short position grows in canola

Jul. 9, 2019 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Field pea acreage increasing

Jul. 4, 2019 at 7:34 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: All eyes on King Corn

Jul. 3, 2019 at 6:33 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada proposes China meat export solution

Jul. 3, 2019 at 5:19 pm CDT

Reuters — Canada offered a plan to reassure China about the security of its meat export system, a Canadian minister said on Wednesday, as Ottawa rejected Chinese criticism of its efforts to enlist allies to resolve a diplomatic dispute between the countries. China said last week it wanted the Canadian […]

By David Ljunggren Rod Nickel

Trudeau, China’s Xi had ‘positive’ discussions as dispute rages

Jun. 28, 2019 at 7:50 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping had “positive, constructive interactions” on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Friday as a dispute between the two countries rages, Trudeau’s office said. Trudeau spoke “more than once” to Xi during a meeting of the […]

By Reuters

Supercluster backs oilseed protein joint venture

Jun. 27, 2019 at 8:08 pm CDT

A project to extract new high-protein ingredients from canola, hemp and other such crops for use in the food, feed and aquaculture markets will be the first to get funding from Canada’s plant protein supercluster. Protein Industries Canada (PIC), set up last year as one of five federally-backed research and […]

By GFM Staff

StatsCan: Less canola and durum, more barley and oats

Jun. 26, 2019 at 1:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers seeded fewer canola and durum acres than they originally intended, but more barley and oats, according to updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada that largely came within expectations. StatsCan pegged planted Canadian canola area for 2019-20 (August to July) at 20.952 million acres, down by about […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Rain gives farmers relief, for now, from three-year drought

Jun. 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — With drought turning Chad Ross’s pastures brown, the southeastern Saskatchewan rancher sent 140 head of cattle to slaughter earlier than usual this spring, as the Prairies’ three-year drought made them too expensive to feed. The ranch and feedlot near Estevan has lost money two straight years. […]

By Rod Nickel