Insights and Stories on Oilseeds

Jan. 26, 2022 at 7:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures hit their highest in seven months on Wednesday on technical buying and as soyoil futures rallied with energy markets and historically high palm oil prices. Concerns about a reduced South American harvest and exports from top soy supplier Brazil offered further support, with […]

By Karl Plume

Jan. 19, 2022 at 6:28 pm CST

MarketsFarm — A speculative selloff weighed heavily on the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Wednesday, before the selling subsided and prices regained much of their lost ground. “For prices this high, that’s pretty routine stuff,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg on the $80 per […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 29, 2021 at 9:16 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin Glacier FarmMedia staff As the calendar turns to 2022, activity is relatively quiet in the Canadian organic sector, with tight supplies of many crops limiting the already seasonally slow movement. The Prairie drought of 2021 cut into the production for organic crops the same as was seen […]

By OrganicBiz

Dec. 20, 2021 at 6:04 pm CST

MarketsFarm –– Updated supply and demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released late Friday, included only minor adjustments to balance sheets for the country’s major crops. The department’s projected ending stocks for wheat and canola were left unchanged from the previous month. Factoring in the official estimates from […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 15, 2021 at 7:43 pm CST

MarketsFarm — As the speculative longs for ICE Futures canola keep trying to defend their position, trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg said the pressure on canola continued to build. That’s especially so with declines over the last few weeks in Chicago soyoil, Malaysian palm oil and European […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm