Insights and Stories on Statistics Canada

Klassen: Yearling prices on fire

Aug. 25, 2020 at 2:16 am CDT

Compared to last week, yearlings coming off grass traded $3-$5 higher; backgrounded yearlings were $1-$3 higher on average while calf markets were relatively unchanged. February and April live cattle futures closed marginally lower for the week; however, fed cattle basis levels from U.S. packers are very strong for winter and […]

Canola crush edges up, soybean crush falls

Jul. 25, 2020 at 12:54 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Meat leads Canadian industrial producer prices higher in May

Jun. 30, 2020 at 3:42 am CDT

By Kelsey Johnson

Attention turns to yield potential after StatsCan report

Jun. 29, 2020 at 1:46 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

StatsCan survey shows bump up in wheat acres, particularly durum

Jun. 29, 2020 at 10:58 am CDT

By Reuters

Canola area expected to be lower in Monday’s StatsCan report

Jun. 26, 2020 at 7:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Market participants generally expect canola acreage will be revised downward in a second acreage estimate due out Monday from Statistics Canada. “There’s a lot of uncertainty about canola acres,” Ken Ball of P.I. International in Winnipeg said, noting acreage was “definitely lost” in central and northern Alberta due […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Little change seen in June’s crop supply/demand tables

Jun. 23, 2020 at 7:58 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Supply/demand estimates for Canada’s major crops saw little change in updated tables released Tuesday from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Acreage estimates from Statistics Canada are due out June 30, and should lead to more sizeable adjustments in subsequent reports. Canola ending stocks were left unchanged at 2.6 million […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Demand pushes up cash prices for oats

Jun. 8, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While scarcity of oats on the Prairies has pushed up cash prices, there has been a drop in futures prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), two buyers said. “The weakness in the futures definitely has nothing to do with cash prices in the country,” said Scott […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Legalization lifts Canada’s net farm income in 2019

May. 26, 2020 at 8:46 pm CDT

A significant year-over-year increase Canada booked last year in realized net farm income rests mainly on 2019’s status as the country’s first full year in the recreational cannabis market. Statistics Canada on Tuesday released full-year data on farm income, pegging Canada’s realized net farm income for 2019 at $4.9 billion […]

By Dave Bedard

Farmer deliveries well above average in April

May. 25, 2020 at 8:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Farmer deliveries of major grains into the Canadian commercial pipeline were up substantially in April, hitting their third-highest monthly total on record, according to updated data Statistics Canada released Monday. Farmers in April delivered 5.868 million tonnes of major grains, about a million tonnes above the monthly average […]