Insights and Stories on Canola

Crude oil bearishness seeps into canola market

Jun. 23, 2017 at 8:09 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The falling price of crude oil is a bearish force weighing on many agricultural commodities, including canola, according to a Prairie market analyst. “Crude oil has been a driver of this weakness,” said Errol Anderson, president of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. In the past month, crude oil […]

Syngenta exits canola seed business

Jun. 13, 2017 at 1:12 pm CDT

By Staff

Soggy forecast worries Prairie farmers in race to seed crops

May. 23, 2017 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Take time to judge frost damage on canola

May. 19, 2017 at 7:40 pm CDT

By Staff

StatsCan data confirm tight canola supplies

May. 5, 2017 at 12:11 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Four canola diseases to watch for

Apr. 25, 2017 at 10:32 am CDT

By Lisa Guenther

Canadian producers to plant record canola crop, boost soybean acres

Apr. 21, 2017 at 2:51 pm CDT

CNS Canada – Canadian oilseed acreage is set to boom according to the latest acreage estimates from Statistics Canada. Today, the agency released its Principal Fields Crops Acreage Summary for 2017/18 on April 21. It pegged canola acreage at a record 22.387 million acres, a jump of 2.02 million acres over […]

By Dave Sims

Organic Price Quotes: Late March

Mar. 31, 2017 at 10:41 am CDT

Organic prices are updated on a monthly basis. Read more: Pulses reign in new crop, grains grounded by stocks

By OrganicBiz

The value of spring-threshed canola

Mar. 24, 2017 at 9:57 am CDT

Many growers across the Prairies are facing the reality of canola that’s been left out in fields over winter. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to players in the canola buying and processing industry to find out who will buy spring-threshed canola, and to learn about some of […]

By Brian Wittal

No point in quarantine for verticillium wilt, CFIA says

Mar. 18, 2017 at 8:26 pm CDT

Slapping federal quarantines on canola fields with verticillium wilt wouldn’t serve much purpose, since the yield-robbing fungi is already in all of Canada’s major canola-growing areas, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. While the agency itself is recommending against regulation, CFIA on Wednesday posted a draft of a risk management […]

By Staff