Insights and Stories on Canola

Tighter StatsCan canola crop won’t affect market, analysts say

Dec. 6, 2018 at 11:59 am CST

CNS Canada — Canada’s canola production has been revised lower in the latest data from Statistics Canada’s Production of Principal Field Crops report, issued Thursday. However, two observers agree the final numbers won’t have much effect on markets. “It’s not a report that’s going to allow canola to trade tremendously […]

Total Canadian grain exports running well ahead of average

Nov. 30, 2018 at 6:05 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Net fund short position grows in canola

Nov. 30, 2018 at 5:58 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Long-awaited fund report still murky for canola

Nov. 27, 2018 at 8:11 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Alberta farmers try to wrap up ‘very unusual year’

Nov. 23, 2018 at 8:05 am CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Funds’ net short position growing in canola

Nov. 16, 2018 at 8:02 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Speculators added to their net short positions in canola during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Managed money and other reportable speculators increased their net short position to roughly 29,400 contracts in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola seen dropping further still

Nov. 15, 2018 at 4:20 pm CST

CNS Canada — As global oilseed overproduction and a trade war rages on between the U.S. and China, producers should get used to lower canola prices, according to one analyst. “For the last two years (we’ve been) moving in a $480-$530 type of range. My best guess is that when […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Trends stand out in StatsCan crop data: report

Nov. 13, 2018 at 8:08 pm CST

CNS Canada — Second-guessing Statistics Canada’s crop information may be a time-honoured tradition across the Prairies, but there are trends in the data that stand out, according to a recent report from the government agency. Looking at data over the past decade, total seeded canola acres were revised higher in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market establishing a base

Nov. 8, 2018 at 10:15 am CST

CNS Canada – Canola contracts on the ICE platform are trading near their lowest levels in more than a year, but could be running out of room to the downside. With the North American harvest pressure easing and the South American soybean harvest still a number of months away, canola […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin