Insights and Stories on Estimates

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans, corn looking past hurricane

Sep. 1, 2021 at 2:43 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Hurricane Ida has wreaked havoc on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pressuring Chicago Board of Trade soybean and corn futures as exports face disruptions — but the market is reacting more to what’s coming next than what has already happened, an analyst says. “I don’t know what the ramifications, […]

Smaller crops anticipated in looming StatsCan report

Aug. 27, 2021 at 3:34 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Focus shifts away from USDA supply, demand estimates

Aug. 18, 2021 at 1:40 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Canada’s canola acres up from earlier forecast

Jun. 29, 2021 at 1:27 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canola, wheat acres in opposite trends before StatsCan report

Jun. 25, 2021 at 6:09 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

StatsCan’s projected canola area on low side of expectations

Apr. 27, 2021 at 12:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As the market grapples with new planting projections from Statistics Canada, one thing was abundantly clear to MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville: this canola forecast isn’t enough to rectify tight ending stocks. In StatsCan’s survey-based principal field crop areas report, released Tuesday, the federal agency pegged canola acres […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soy futures rally on dry Argentina weather

Mar. 5, 2021 at 7:15 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures prices pushed higher on Friday, notching a fourth straight weekly gain, as dry weather in Argentina continued to fuel worries about global supplies of the oilseed. Corn futures rebounded from a three-week low reached in the previous session, while wheat futures also edged […]

By Tom Polansek

Canada’s canola harvest smallest in five years

Dec. 3, 2020 at 11:58 am CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers produced the smallest canola crop in five years, but the largest wheat output since 2013, Statistics Canada said in its final harvest estimate of the year. Canola production looked set to reach 18.7 million tonnes, down 4.5 per cent from last year and below […]

By Rod Nickel

StatsCan report to provide clarity on 2020 crop production

Nov. 30, 2020 at 7:44 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Market participants and producers will be looking to Statistics Canada’s principal field crop report, due out Thursday, for clarity regarding 2020 crop yields. “We’re looking to see how severely the heat damaged the crop, and how yield estimates were tempered later in the growing season,” said Jerry Klassen, […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

AAFC lowers wheat carryout estimate, raises canola

Sep. 25, 2020 at 7:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Updated supply and demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada call for tighter wheat carryout for the 2020-21 crop year than previous forecast — and more canola. Tursday’s report provides the first adjusted balance sheet estimates from the government agency that account for the latest production numbers from […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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