Insights and Stories on StatCan

StatCan expects more wheat, canola acres in 2023

Apr. 26, 2023 at 11:26 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers intend to plant more wheat and canola in 2023, with soybeans, corn and barley area also forecast to expand, according to Statistics Canada’s projections for field crop area. The increases in those crops will come at the expense of oats, lentils and peas, with intended summerfallow […]

Analysts expect additional acres for canola, wheat

Apr. 24, 2023 at 6:43 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Canola crush of 2022 smallest in five years

Mar. 13, 2023 at 3:44 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Crop, livestock prices offset reduced marketings in 2022

Feb. 28, 2023 at 8:19 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Grain deliveries surge January over January

Feb. 21, 2023 at 3:53 pm CST

By MarketsFarm

Canada’s potato crop edges up in 2022

Feb. 9, 2023 at 4:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada (StatCan) issued its potato production report Thursday, which noted a 1.5 per cent increase in the country’s crop in 2022. Across Canada, nearly 122.9 million hundredweight (cwt) of potatoes were harvested last year, with an average national yield of 322.3 cwt/acre on 381,351 acres. Alberta rose […]

Feed weekly outlook: Grain stocks set tone for barley, wheat

Feb. 9, 2023 at 4:31 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) grain stocks report issued earlier this week largely met trade expectations, according to Winnipeg-based independent trader Jerry Klassen. The survey-based report, which estimated the country’s grain stocks as of Dec. 31, was neutral for spring wheat, supportive of durum, and pointed toward barley being somewhat […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea stocks down; lentils, dry peas up

Feb. 7, 2023 at 7:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada on Tuesday tallied up increases in commercial and on-farm stocks of both lentils and dry peas, in its report on grain stocks as of Dec. 31, 2022. Unlike those two pulses, however, StatCan reported total stocks of chickpeas decreased, at 185,000 tonnes in December 2022 compared […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Grain stocks come in as projected

Feb. 7, 2023 at 7:36 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Stocks of Canadian grains at year-end appear to be pretty much in line with market expectations. Statistics Canada on Tuesday issued its report on stocks as of Dec. 31, 2022, which highlighted notable increases in most grains, further signaling a recovery from the 2021 drought. “Stocks reports are […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Tightening Canadian lentil stocks expected

Dec. 20, 2022 at 5:04 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Carryout stocks of Canadian lentils could tighten to their smallest level in seven years by the end of the current 2022-23 marketing year, according to updated supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. While lentil production of 2.3 million tonnes was up by 44 per cent from the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin