Insights and Stories on Production

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 […]

December StatsCan report could vary from years past

Dec. 4, 2018 at 9:47 am CST

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders think soy yields less than USDA predicting

Oct. 11, 2018 at 8:27 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Spec selling pressures corn, soy

Sep. 19, 2018 at 4:15 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

Sep. 18, 2018 at 6:31 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. grains: Corn tumbles after USDA boosts production forecast

Sep. 12, 2018 at 5:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures fell 3.6 per cent on Wednesday, for their biggest daily declines since April, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast for U.S. production more than analysts expected, traders said. Wheat futures also tumbled, tracking losses in corn and on pressure from […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas buck pulse trend

Sep. 4, 2018 at 5:56 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan farmers are expected to turn in a smaller pulse harvest this fall, although chickpea production is bucking the overall downward trend. Chickpeas are the only Saskatchewan pulse crop to post a production increase, in Statistics Canada’s latest estimate of 2018 production. The estimates show Saskatchewan growers […]

By Terry Fries

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

Jul. 17, 2018 at 7:22 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers planted their largest chickpea crop in more than a decade in 2018, with the bigger crop likely to lead to a wider price spread between larger- and smaller-calibre supplies. Statistics Canada has placed chickpea acreage for 2018 at 468,900 acres, which would be well above […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat slips on bearish USDA crop forecast

May. 10, 2018 at 5:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a near two-week low on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first official estimate of the 2018-19 U.S. wheat harvest came in above trade expectations. Soybean futures rose, while corn followed wheat lower. CBOT July wheat settled […]

By Julie Ingwersen

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