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Jul. 15, 2020 at 4:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose more than four per cent on Wednesday and touched a 2-1/2-month high as rising global cash prices and rumours of Chinese purchases triggered a round of speculative buying and short-covering, traders and analysts said. Soybean and corn futures also rose despite outlooks […]

By Julie Ingwersen

May. 6, 2020 at 5:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canada’s canola acres are generally expected to be higher in the first area report of the year from Statistics Canada, compared to the 20.96 million acres estimated to have been seeded in 2019. Estimates are wide-ranging, with some analysts predicting a slight reduction in canola area and others […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Apr. 9, 2020 at 1:57 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As has often been the case, February 2020’s oilseed crush was lower than January’s, according to Statistics Canada’s latest report released Thursday. More than 812,600 tonnes of canola were crushed in February, down 4.9 per cent from January. Also, there were 144,260 tonnes of soybeans crushed in February, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Jan. 25, 2020 at 12:28 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian oilseed crushers set a new monthly record for processing canola in December 2019, crushing 899,301 tonnes of the crop during the month, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. The crush pace was up by 70,000 tonnes from November and compares with the previous record of […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Jan. 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Domestic canola demand remained well ahead of exports in the latest Canadian Grain Commission report for the week ended Sunday — but revisions to data now show the crush pace is not quite as active as reported earlier in the month. The original data for the week ended […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin