Insights and Stories on Richardson

Knowing your wheat’s falling number critical this year

Nov. 18, 2019 at 8:06 pm CST

[UPDATED: Nov. 22, 2019] The ‘harvest from hell’ has resulted in one of the worst years in recent memory for sprout damage. That’s pushed down falling numbers and — since grain buyers have different approaches to handling this issue — increased the need for farmers to know the falling numbers […]

Millions of acres of canola freeze, compound ‘harvest from hell’

Nov. 15, 2019 at 7:13 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Joint conference brings canola producers up to speed

Apr. 25, 2019 at 2:16 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Regulator rips CN’s use of freight embargoes at West Coast

Apr. 15, 2019 at 8:44 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

USDA lowers Canadian canola export forecast

Apr. 10, 2019 at 10:23 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola hinges on iffy U.S.-China deal

Apr. 10, 2019 at 8:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canola contracts one the ICE Futures platform held within a narrow range during the week ended Wednesday, waiting for a catalyst to push futures one way or the other. To Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, canola’s path is connected to a trade deal between the U.S. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Third canola exporter runs into trouble in China

Apr. 2, 2019 at 8:33 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters –– Chinese authorities have filed a quality complaint against a third Canadian exporter of canola, Canada’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday, potentially deepening a trade and diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Ottawa. Early last month, China cited the discovery of pests as the reason for blocking shipments […]

By David Ljunggren

Canada to set up working group for China canola push

Apr. 1, 2019 at 10:21 pm CDT

Canola industry stakeholders and provincial officials are to join federal officials in a co-ordinated push to resolve China’s issues with Canadian canola, cabinet ministers said Monday. Speaking Monday in Ottawa, Canada’s Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr said they’ve set up a new working group […]

By GFM Staff

ICE weekly outlook: China’s canola issues already well known

Mar. 27, 2019 at 4:22 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — To some who follow commodities markets, it was clear some other participants had overreacted to the news of China banning canola imports from Viterra. Bruce Burnett of MarketsFarm was one of those who saw Canadian exports of canola to China have pretty much dried up since January. That […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

China’s ban on Canadian canola expands to Viterra

Mar. 26, 2019 at 11:13 am CDT

Beijing/Ottawa | Reuters — China expanded its ban on Canadian canola seed imports on Tuesday to include shipments from Viterra, the latest development in a wider trade dispute between the two countries. Viterra is the second canola exporter to have its registration cancelled, after Beijing halted shipments from top exporter […]

By Dominique Patton Julie Gordon