Insights and Stories on Statistics Canada

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market pits weather against supplies

Jun. 9, 2021 at 6:36 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As dry conditions remained prevalent across the Canadian Prairies and U.S. northern Plains, despite recent precipitation, the markets were in a struggle between the weather and tightening supplies, according to Winnipeg analyst Wayne Palmer of Exceed Grain. So far for the week of June 7, central and northern […]

StatsCan shows 2020 farm income up significantly

May. 27, 2021 at 10:22 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea acres ‘sharply’ down

May. 12, 2021 at 5:34 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Canada left with very tight canola, barley stocks

May. 7, 2021 at 9:11 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: Canola’s uptrend intact for now

May. 5, 2021 at 10:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Challenging crop year ahead for canola

Apr. 28, 2021 at 5:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With declines in canola following Statistics Canada’s bullish-leaning projections for acres, it’s becoming more difficult to determine which way prices will trend in coming weeks and months. “Where are prices going to go? In any given year that’s challenging, especially in this year,” said David Derwin, analyst for […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Canada’s soybean, corn acres projected to rise

Apr. 27, 2021 at 8:37 pm CDT

Statistics Canada’s first read of farmers’ intentions for the 2021 growing season shows more Canadian acres going into both soybeans and corn. Farmers nationwide anticipate planting 5.3 million acres to soy in 2021, up 5.5 per cent from 2020, StatsCan said in its field crop survey released Tuesday. “An increase […]

By Dave Bedard

Pulse weekly outlook: StatsCan’s pea, chickpea acres short of trade expectations

Apr. 27, 2021 at 7:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Numbers were seen as disappointing for dry peas and chickpeas in Statistics Canada’s survey-based principal field crop planting projections released Tuesday. The federal agency predicted 3.839 million acres seeded for dry peas nationwide, nearly a 10 per cent decline compared to last year. By comparison, MarketsFarm projected 4.38 […]

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 […]